BBC's "The Choir" Premieres in the U.S.

The television series The Choir premieres on American television through BBC America July 7. Choirmaster Gareth Malone creates choirs in Britain in the most unlikely settings. In the two-time BAFTA award-winning series, The Choir, Gareth sets his sights first on the Northolt High School--a school with no music program, then on Lancaster School--an all boys school where sports dominates the landscape, and lastly on South Oxhey--a blue collar community.

One of the initiatives of the American Choral Directors Association is to provide the opportunities that would allow every child in the United States to be able to sing in a choir.

Gareth's belief that people should have access to sing beautiful music drives his fearless passion to unite people in song. He feels a choir allows people to come together and express themselves as a community which can be a deeply personal and touching human experience. But as he finds out, getting people together to form a choir is no small feat.