If you’ve ever wanted to join a choir, now’s your chance — just for the night.

You may have seen Astrid Jorgensen audition for this year’s America’s Got Talent (AGT), and now she’s bringing her show to Canberra.

Pub Choir’s Average at Best tour will hit the UC Refectory, University of Canberra, stage on 26 and 27 October. Tickets are sold out for the Monday show but are still available for the Sunday.

If you’re not familiar with what Pub Choir is all about, Jorgensen, a music teacher-turned-conductor, runs entirely improvised comedy music lessons.

By the end of the show, the audience is belting out a popular song in three-part harmony.

“I bring an arrangement I create for the show,” Jorgensen told CD.

“I adjust my lesson on the fly, so it makes sense for the people that are there.

“At the end, we perform it. It’s just one song for the show. Hopefully it’s a bit of a laugh for people.”

While for other tours the song may change from venue to venue, Jorgensen said the Average at Best shows will be different as she will teach the same song across the tour.

“I add layers in each show,” Jorgensen said.

“I’ll find local Canberra musicians to add to the show.

“At the end of the tour I’ll put all the performances together, so there’s about 30,000 people singing the same song.”

Jorgensen said the comedy element came into the show via visual gags.

“I’ve created a new style of music notation, colour coding and GIFs to help people remember what I taught them.”

While the audience is encouraged not to film the experience of the show, Jorgensen said each show was recorded by the Pub Choir crew.

“If you spend your time filming the lesson, you won’t receive the lesson,” she said.

“Choir can only be achieved in the presence of other people.

“I encourage people to experience the show.”

Jorgensen said the thing she loved the most about being on stage for the choir sessions was that everyone there was everyday people.

“I really love that it’s entirely unique to whoever is there,” she said.

Jorgensen’s AGT audition, where she teaches the audience to sing Africa’s Toto, has been viewed millions of times.

And if you’re wondering after watching the video if she made it through, she did!

You can watch the performance below.

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