[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] It doesn’t take long to form a habit. Sometimes just a tea break, let alone a whole lunchtime. But it can take ages to break a habit. ...
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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir] Last week in How to teach (and learn) a song by ear 1 I wrote about the oral tradition, teaching by ear, starting notes and Breaking a song down into...
When you already belong to a community, have you ever thought that perhaps you know eveyone you need to know and there is no need to know more people? or you believe you need to meet many more people in order to have access to either fun activities, netw...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
We are sorry to announce disappointing, upsetting news. After 4 ½ years of ambitious, adventurous music-Making, Albion is coming to an end. It’s been tremendously hard to contemplate this as a way forward, and equally so to decide on it....
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in the UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...
[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] As a member of the Natural Voice Network I share their belief that everybody can sing and nobody should be excluded from music-Making. Which is why n...
(This post was orginally written for the Embro Thistle Singers blog.) I think sometimes we get so focused on Making the music as directors and singers, we forget that the people around us have "baggage" good and bad that we need to unpack before ...
