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blog: New year - new beginning

This time of the year many of us summarize their lives: what has happened the last 356 Days? At meeting music we are sure about that the most memorable moments are connected to some special experiences. The moment when you joined a choir and made lifelong...

blog: Boost Confidence by Sharpening Your Musical Memory

  Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a song or a jingle stuck in your head and end up singing or humming it for hours - or even Days. On the other hand, when you are actively trying to learn a poem, lyric, or a...

blog: Listening Part 1 - A Learned Skill

This post was orginally found on our Embro Thistle Singers blog. I remember when we had Professional Development Days when I was teaching, the teachers would complain that they were more tired that day than from a whole day of teaching.  I had had...

blog: Is community singing dead?

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Many people look back to the good old Days when we all used to gather round a piano and sing for hours, or join in a good sing-song down the local pub. &n...

Highlights of the With One Voice Program HD by Creativity Australia
video: Highlights of the With One Voice Program HD by Creativity Australia

www.creativityaustralia.org.au Singing is the language of the heart. For centuries, song has played a key role in community, culture and story-telling worldwide. Yet how many people dare to sing freely these Days... apart from in the shower? Community s...  more

blog: It Made Me Almost Like the Beatles

I go along most TuesDays to The Sing at the Edge Theatre,Chorlton, Manchester.
This Week someone who hadn’t been for a couple of Weeks mentioned how much they’d missed it. It got me thinking how much I enjoy it too. Having tried another choir where the r...

blog: Don’t Just Sing, Inspire!

I can tell a good movie by how uplifted I feel afterward. With really good movies, the feeling of upliftment and expansion can last for hours, or even Days. Lincoln was such a movie for me. I saw it at the Grove Theater in Los Angeles. I was str...

blog: The job of being a choir leader

[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   As a singing workshop and choir leader I have an incredibly easy life. I can get up when I want to and have no work commitments for five Days ...

blog: How to lead your choir when you’re just not in the mood

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir] We all have off Days, even choir leaders.     Here are a few hints on how to cope when you’re feeling low or burnt out.   No matte...

blog: Moving Easter Performance

Bridgnorth Choral Society presented an emotional and moving performance of J H Maunder's Olivet to Calvary at their Concert of Easter Music on Saturday night. The piece depicted the last few Days of Christ's life on earth, from his entry into Jerusalem an...