A DUNFERMLINE choir has been saved from the brink of disbanding after finding a musical director.

The Woodmill Singers looked set to fall silent for good after their efforts to find a new leader proved unsuccessful.

However, Queen Anne High School music and drama teacher Maggie Grant has stepped in and taken on the role after hearing of their plight.

“I felt it was such a tragedy, such a sad thing to think that the group which in 2015 celebrated 30 years, were going to have to break up because they didn’t have someone to lead them,” she explained.

“I have worked with choirs all my life. Music is my passion so when I heard about it, I thought I cannot let this happen.

"I contacted them and said I would be interested in the position."

And she added: “I had gone along to their wake thing as it were, their last night together.

"They were having a party to say farewell and I got the job there and then, which was just wonderful.”

Maggie, who lives in Cairneyhill, is hoping her experience in the musical world and the West End will help her with her new position.

She has previously worked in London and has a long CV of singing and musical theatre work which have seen her appear on BBC1, perform at Pinewood Studios for the producers of James Bond movie Quantum of Solace and sing on the same stage as Tom Jones and Charlotte Church.

And she was in the chorus and performed a solo in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe show, Broadway Swings, with West End star Kate Graham on Monday night in the Edinburgh International Conference Centre.

Having had one rehearsal with the Woodmill Singers before their summer break, Maggie is now looking forward to getting back to rehearsals and working with them.

“It is so exciting – I haven’t worked with a choir since being in London in 2007.

"I have done the choirs at school so have worked with young voices but am looking forward to this challenge,” she added.

“There is so much potential – there’s an opportunity to reinvigorate them and reinvent them and inject them with a new life and vitality and bring them into the 21st century.”

The Woodmill Singers hold their AGM in the Community Church of the Nazarene, in Headwell Avenue, on Tuesday August 22 at 7pm.

The first practice is the following Tuesday, August 29, in the same venue and at the same time.

New members are welcome, there are no auditions so you can come along and give it a try.