You may have noticed the recent outbreak of a rash of Glee-inspired projects – Glee referring to the TV series that distracts you from your weekly essay, as opposed to the feeling of euphoria. Choral belting teenagers are smashing sales records previously held by The Beatles; Dizzee Rascal is using a group of King’s College’s finest voices in his live shows; and community choirs are springing up all over the shop.

The singing quality of many of these choral start-ups - which take their lead from fictional high-school misfits, yet often lack the Mariah-Whitney edge - may leave something to be desired. And the inaugural outing on Saturday of Dowsing for Sound, Cambridge's manifestation of the craze, proved no exception. For these singers, it's less about choral finesse than about enthusiasm – which they've got in spades. For them, there just ain’t no mountain high enough.

Dowsing for Sound’s musical director, Andrea Cockerton, has created a choir which is very different to the Palestrina-chanting ensembles we’re used to here in Cambridge. It's a choir for anyone, she reminded us at the start of the concert, the only requirement being an ability to sing in tune. That condition may not have been strictly met in all cases, and a poorly-rigged amplification system focused our hearing on the voices of a few individuals with only a passing grasp of notions of flatness and sharpness. Fortunately the in-house band just about saved the day, their sensitive accompaniments managing to keep the singers from swaying too far off-key. That said, we could have done with much less pedal from the electric guitar: Brian May plays Great St Mary’s – for one night only.

Nonetheless, the choir’s renditions of Goldfrapp’s ‘Alive’ and Cindies favourite ‘Go Your Own Way’ had even the numbest feet in the freezing church tapping. This was, aside from anything else, a fun, spirited performance. I eagerly await Glee-inspired choreography next time.

Rather bizarrely, in the midst of the music came a talk from a rower who has achieved world-record-holder status after rowing solo across several oceans. She talked plummily about the difficulties she'd been forced to overcome to accomplish her successes today – namely, giving ‘after-dinner’ motivational speeches to chilly audiences who haven’t actually had a big corporate dinner. Although Dowsing for Sound would be best advised to cut the chat and please their appreciative audience with one or two more jolly choral mash-ups, the rower’s message certainly served to stress the philosophy underpinning the entire event: in the words of Sue Sylvester and friends, ‘Don’t stop Believin’’.