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North Atlanta Voices
community chorus is for
anyone with ‘desire to sing’
BYDYANABAGBY
Lucas Tarrant was a frustrated singer, voice
teacher and choral conductor searching for
a way to spread his love of music and make
it accessible to everyone. Driving down Ro
swell Road about five years ago, he saw the
sign for Sandy Springs Music. He pulled in
on a whim and asked if
the store needed a voice
teacher.
He was hired on the
spot.
Cheryl Logan spent
her career managing and
owning businesses, but
wanted to find a way to
express herself artistical
ly. While driving down
Roswell Road one after
noon several years ago,
she saw the sign for Sandy
Springs Music and decid
ed to quickly whip into
the parking lot. She went
in and asked about voice
lessons.
She and Tarrant met
and he started teaching her private lessons at
her home.
“Our meeting was serendipitous,” Logan,
65, says.
The voice lessons were inspirational for
both and the two eventually became best
friends. In March 2018, during a voice lesson
in Logan’s living room, Tarrant, 30, asked her
if she wanted to start a community chorus.
Without hesitation, she said yes.
They named the chorus North Atlanta
Voices, designed a logo, got business cards,
created a website, all from their new head
quarters in Logans living room.
Of course, they would also need people
to sing in the chorus in a metro Atlanta area
where many choruses already existed. All of
these choruses, though, required singers to
audition.
“We needed a leg up so we focused on cre
ating a non-auditioned chorus that was about
music, but also about building community,”
Tarrant said.
“We really love that part of what we are
doing,” he said. “And I thrive on teaching
people with no experience singing in a cho
rus. I wanted to make this really enjoyable to
everyone.”
The duo recruited 20 people to sing in
their first concert in 2018. Logan and Tar
rant kept their mission alive through the CO-
VID-19 pandemic by reaching out to more
people who wanted to sing with a chorus.
North Atlanta Voices became an official non
profit in 2020. Tarrant handles the artistic vi
sion, Logan is in charge of the business side.
At the North Atlanta Voices spring con
cert in April at the Atlanta Jewish Academy
— made possible with funding through a
Sandy Springs Arts Foundation grant — there
were nearly 50 sopranos, basses, altos and ten
ors on stage singing songs in English, Latin,
Hebrew and Russian. Members range in age
Cheryl Logan, left, and Lucas Tarrant
are best friends after establishing the
non-auditioned North Atlanta Voices
chorus. She is the executive director, and
he is the artistic director. (Special)
from 19 to their 80s. Two families are part of
the group.
“The music Lucas chooses is not simple,”
Logan said. “We’ve been exposed to several
languages because of the songs he chooses and
he is so good at teaching technique and mak
ing people feel so accomplished.”
The chorus continues its mission of being
non-auditioned and always will, Tarrant said.
“So many people want to sing, but not by
themselves,” Tarrant said. “This is about sing
ing for joy. We want to create a place for peo
ple to never have to sing alone if they don’t
want to.
“The only prerequisite is a desire to sing,”
he said.
16 SEPTEMBER 2022 | REPORTER NEWSPAPERS
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