[this is an updated version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   First I need to fess up: I have a low boredom threshold and always try to squeeze in as many songs as possible. Not always a good idea!  ...

Okay- so I've been a bit slack about Blogging lately.  Not that I have been idol- there is so much to Blog about but 24 hours in a day a full time job and more music than I can ever learn to play means there  isn't enough time!   In the l...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   Very, very few people are tone deaf. Tone deafness is an abnormality of the brain which can also affect the understanding of language and certain spatial ...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   Even though I’ve been teaching for almost 30 years, I still get affected by that glum-looking face in the third row.   ... and it's no...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]I teach songs from all over the world, often in foreign languages. But people are always asking me for more songs in English. Why is this? Especially since ...

we Sing in the Brecht-Eisler tradition and prefer modern music with a politically interesting content

Singing day with GGCC www.ggcc.org.uk Huge thank to hosts London School of Theology www.lst.ac.uk

We get together once a month to Sing for fun. Fourth Sunday of the month - 4:30 to 6.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   There are many choir leaders whose priority is to create as perfect a rendition of a written musical score as they can (see Music lives in flawed humans and n...

(adapted from a post in The Stairwell Carollers Choir Blog) David Rain, tenor:  How on earth  do you hear everyone, including our mistakes, while Singing Along at full throttle?   Pierre: I'm not sure, but you're definitely right...