The Lydian Singers is a mixed voice chamber choir based at Knutsford but drawing membership from a far surrounding area. The choir was founded in 1980 and performs a wide variety of music in a wide variety of venues. The Lydian Singers has developed a specialism in church music performed in liturgical settings and has sung in most of the cathedrals in the North and Midlands as well as in Segovia, Avila, Perugia, Spoleto, Orvieto and Assisi cathedrals.  Recent engagements have included the semi-chorus in Elgar's "Dream of Gerontius" in Chester Cathedral, a joint performance with Phoenix Singers of Bach’s "St Matthew Passion" in Shrewsbury Abbey and services at Blackburn, Durham, Peterborough and Salisbury cathedrals.  Earlier in 2011 the Lydian Singers performed at the Lymm Festival and in the autumn will sing at Liverpool Cathedral and at its base, St. Cross church in Knutsford.

The Lydian Singers at Salisbury Cathedral in 2010