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blog: How to warm up your voice on the bus (or any other public space)

[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...

blog: Now the years are rollIng by me, they are rockIng evenly and I

This post was origInally written for www.onlInerehearsals.blogspot.com - I thought it might be of wider Interest The time has come; some might say the time is long past, for us to decide what we are as a choir and how we move forward. In many ways...

blog: How can similar choirs be so different?

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Over the years I have run choirs and sIngIng groups all based on the same prInciples, but In different locations. The general mix of genders, ages, backgro...

blog: Song meanIngs lost In translation

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I have to admit that I’m Not really a lyric person. I might have been listenIng to a particular pop song In English for years when I suddenly realise...

blog: What do sIngIng and sex have In common? – more than you thInk!

[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...

blog: Why beIng ‘pitchy’ can be In the ear of the beholder

[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...

blog: How to cope with sIngIng In the heat

[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...

blog: What to do if you thInk someOne In your part is sIngIng it ‘wrong’?

[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...

blog: I kNow over 600 songs so how come I can’t thInk of One when someOne asks?

[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...

blog: How to help sIngIng groups harmonise even if it seems they can’t

[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...