About 50 members of the new Dunedin Rock Choir were on hand to sway their way through decades of rock hits with a choir's harmony at Otago Museum yesterday.
The performance, watched by a crowd of about 120 people, took the audience through classic rock from the Beatles, Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen to more contemporary hits by Coldplay, Adele and Lorde.
Conductor Nancy Miller said Dunedin's rock choir was launched last year and offered a chance for less confident singers to join a group and have some fun.
''A lot of the people in the choir would not consider joining a standard choir,'' she said.
Anyone could join the group and there were no individual auditions, meaning those with less confidence in their voices could take part and enjoy the sense of safety in numbers, she said.
The group met weekly at St Peter's Anglican Church Hall in South Dunedin.
It staged large performances every six months and smaller ''flash mob''-style events more frequently, she said.
