Choir

Simply unforgettable venues to suit your choir’s sound and style

Simply unforgettable venues to suit your choir’s sound and style At Rayburn Tours, providing ensembles with simply unforgettable performance opportunities is at the very heart of what we do. Taking...

Musical gurus: meet some of the UK Choir Festival’s highly acclaimed workshop leaders

We’ve had the pleasure of meeting just a few of the UK Choir Festival‘s incredible workshop leaders this year – and of course getting stuck into the workshops themselves! Helping...

6 reasons why every music group should perform at Edinburgh Fringe

Explore brilliant reasons to perform in the Scottish capital during August - and how we can help get you there!

Take Note Community Choir rocks Edinburgh Fringe with home-grown Devon talent

Take Note Community Choir rocks Edinburgh Fringe with home-grown Devon talent Devon-based Take Note Community Choir has been taking the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s choral scene by storm – and...

Top tips for taking big groups on tour

When visiting the Director of Music at Mount St Mary’s College last October, it was clear to see why Lucy Kitchener’s tours abroad are so successful. Although the necessary planning required is...

A guide to branding your music ensemble

Branding is all about creating an image that captures who you are as an ensemble. It’s a feeling, an association, an identity – something that people think of when they hear your name. So to get...

How can an international concert tour benefit your youth ensemble?

Inspiration is what moves us to do something, and with everything going on right now, we could do with some. We know things are a bit different now – schools remaining closed, rehearsals moved...
A windmill in the Netherlands

My top picks for Music Tours to The Netherlands!

Malta General

Mount St Mary’s memorable choir tour to Malta

Senior Tour Consultant, Joanna Matthews, and Tour Co-ordinator, Katie Matthews, have recently returned from a 5-day trip to Malta with Mount St Mary’s College with a whopping 143 travellers (yes,...
Aerial view over La Rambla from Christopher Columbus monument, with quarters of El Raval to the left and Barri Gotic to the right in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Performance and Culture in Catalonia

Record Rhineland Tourism

Life as a tour courier

Having recently accompanied a music ensemble to Germany’s beautiful Rhineland region, we seized the opportunity to find out from long-standing tour guide, Roy Varney, about the role of concert...