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blog: Communities in Harmony Blog launched. Celebrating the ways choral music is transforming communities.

Community arts organizations create spaces for musicians, visual artists, and dancers ages 5-105 to come together, work together, create together, and engage in a collaborative process that builds relationships across race, culture, ethnicity, gender, soc...

blog: Avoid toxic choir leaders – the end does NOT justify the means

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   There are some workshop and choir leaders who work through fear. They are not particularly nice people, but they do get good results.   phot...

blog: My ideal community choir

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   I want to share with you how I view open-access community choirs.     I’d like to think that the choirs I run are a bit different from...

blog: The pleasures of being a choir member

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   I’m going to fess up here: I’ve never really been in a choir.     Choir of the Munich University of Applied Sciences by Mark Kam...

blog: How to find new songs for your choir

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   I’m often asked by concert-goers and choir leaders alike:   “Where do you get all your songs from?”     Well, here...

blog: How to catch up if you miss a choir rehearsal

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   Apparently there is more to life than just Singing (can’t imagine what), so occasionally you may have to miss a choir rehearsal (not me though!...

blog: Everybody has a place in the choir

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   … and there is a place in a choir somewhere for everybody.     Frank joined our choir a while back. He hadn’t sung for ages, bu...

blog: How will your choir cope if you don’t turn up?

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   Everyone likes to think that they’re indispensable.     The truth is though, when you’re not there your choir will manage ...

blog: Throwing a Themed Party to Remember with Your Choir

If you Sing in a choir then chances are, you don’t need to be sold on its benefits. Choir Singing has been found in many studies to do amazing things (including boosting the immune system) and forming part of one can also boost your social skil...

blog: A day in the life of a concert

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my Blog From the Front of the Choir]   This is a busy concert time for most choirs.     I thought I'd give an account of a typical concert by one of my community choirs. This ...