I get the impression from the above posts that, when people here say 'community choir' they mean a folk choir - is that right?

The choir I sing with is a 'formal' choir according to the feelings expressed here. We sing Bach, Schubert, Brahms etc. (as well as a little bit of jazz and some folk song arrangements).

On the choir's promotional material we are called a community choir and I have understood the term simply to mean a local, community based choir, open to anyone in the local area (i.e. no auditions and no requirement for sight-reading etc. although many members, myself included, do have formal musical training and can sight-read).

Would you argue that this isn't a community choir because we sing mainly classical stuff? Does this mean that calling ourselves a 'community choir' is misleading?

Isn't it confusing? We all use the same words but we each seem to mean something different!