Sudbury choir goes underground for world record

Group recently performed in Creighton Mine

The Ariadne Women’s Chamber Choir performs in Vale Inco Ltd.’s
Creighton Mine in Sudbury in a bid to set a world record. (Megan
Thomas/CBC News)

The Ariadne Women’s Chamber Choir of Sudbury, Ont., recently
took its act two kilometres underground in a bid to get into the
Guinness World Records book.

Ten of the group’s 12 members donned special coveralls,
protective eyeglasses and hard hats and descended with miners into
Vale Inco Ltd.’s Creighton Mine in an elevator known as “the
cage.”

They spent a morning in the mine’s SNOLAB, the world’s deepest
underground laboratory used for advanced physics experiments,
performing a variety of pieces including Canadian composer
Christine Donkin’s Magnificat, and Hodie, from Benjamin Britten’s
Christmas choral piece A Ceremony of Carols.

The Ariadne choir hopes to set a Guinness World Record for the
deepest a cappella performance.