SINGERS from the Salisbury Plain Military Wives Choir are adding their voices to the official Diamond Jubilee song to be performed live at Buckingham Palace next month.

Pop legend Gary Barlow invited six members of the choir, Becca George, Juliet Taylor Maurice, Kate Mason, Lisa Bedward, Sharon Cox and Heidi Cox to the recording of the official Diamond Jubilee single, Sing, at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.

And on June 4, four of the singers will be joined by fellow choir members Sharon Such, Antonella Duncan, Jen Coombes, Sam Lewis and Nikki Durnell, for a live performance at Buckingham Palace.

Before the recording on April 4 and 5, the military wives rehearsed with choir master Gareth Malone, who put together the original Military Wives Choir featured on BBC One’s The Choir.

Mrs George, who sang at the recording and is busy rehearsing for the live performance, said: “It was amazing. Gary Barlow was there helping with the recording and he made sure it fitted in with the rest of what he had planned.”

The single will be released by Decca Records on Monday, May 28 and the recording process was filmed for a future BBC One documentary.

“It was such an honour and the pressure was on because I felt like I had to perform really well not just for me but for the rest of the choir,” said Mrs George.

She has been a member of the choir since it began at the end of last year, just after she moved to the area.

“It was good timing for me because I had only just moved and I was looking for a choir. I would never have expected this in a million years,” she said. “It’s very strange to go from just being a wife sitting at home to recording a single.”

The military wives are now busy rehearsing for the concert on June 4, where they will perform alongside some of the biggest names in music, dance and musical theatre including Elton John, Jessie J, Tom Jones, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder.

Mrs George said: “We’re very, very excited about it, we can’t wait. We’ve got lots of rehearsals coming up before and it’s going to be amazing to be able to hear everybody in the crowd singing with us so everybody is involved.”