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blog: How to find the baLance between easy and challenging songs in a drop-in singing group

[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: Turning bad singing experiences into good singing lessons

[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: The Lost Sound AcappelLa chorus from Devon

Hello! We are The Lost Sound and hail from the edge of Dartmoor in Devon. We've been together for about 9 years now and sing a mainly folk infused set of contemporry arrangements with thumping Gospel numbers thrown in and some pop masterpieces too! We ge...

blog: Male Choirs --- what will you sing next?

Did you think about changing your program for 2016 Celebration and Rehearsal year? Through the past years of competition and festival we found Many choirs enjoying their time with    - Salutatio AngeFlica by Domenico Bartolucci   ...

M'ANAM
group: M'ANAM

Lass="view_more">M'ANAM is one of the most exciting new vocal ensembles to emerge in recent years, growing naturally from the ground-breaking choral group ANÚNA. Formed in 2017, the members come from the isLand of IreLand and beyond, encompassing a huge range of musical e...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLay='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLay='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="dispLay:none;">M'ANAM is one of the most exciting new vocal ensembles to emerge in recent years, growing naturally from the ground-breaking choral group ANÚNA. Formed in 2017, the members come from the isLand of IreLand and beyond, encompassing a huge range of musical experiences. The musical connection of the group to IreLand is deep and spans all the traditions present here. The songs and texts date back as far as the Viking raids on IreLand in the 9th century, through to music created by the men themselves under the direction of their Artistic Director Michael McGlynn. This year the group release their debut album, "M'ANAM" in the Autumn, and are featured artists on the opening track "CLarity" of the Latest album by accLaimed Japanese jazz-rock ensemble Mouse on the Keys whose 3rd album "tres" was released this May to universal accLaim. Their first digital single "Bandó Ribineann" is released this June.  Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.dispLay='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLay='none';">less

Wrablers
group: Wrablers

Lass="view_more">We are a London-based mixed voice acappelLa choir who sing a mixture of folk, pop, jazz and world music. We've been singing together for a number of years and have developed a reLaxed, friendly style that's as much fun to listen to as it is to perform ...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLay='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLay='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="dispLay:none;">We are a London-based mixed voice acappelLa choir who sing a mixture of folk, pop, jazz and world music. We've been singing together for a number of years and have developed a reLaxed, friendly style that's as much fun to listen to as it is to perform in. We have performed at a number of venues across London and the South East, and are continually expanding our repertoire and our circle of friends.  

VoiSingers
group: VoiSingers

Lass="view_more">It's a choir whose aim is to combine modern musical visions with choir music. Nowadays, cLassical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the Last 20 years palette of music offered by the media has been watered down on an unprecedented sc...  Lass="view_more_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getNext().style.dispLay='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLay='none';">moreLass="view_more" style="dispLay:none;">It's a choir whose aim is to combine modern musical visions with choir music. Nowadays, cLassical choral singing covers only a narrow social stratum. Over the Last 20 years palette of music offered by the media has been watered down on an unprecedented scale, and the frigthening fact is that human values can be found less and less in them. The Voisingers is a novel approach to each song by the newly born transcripts, a new community, a decision that evaluates and realizes - considering musical needs of young people more than ever - the further development of the world-famous Hungarian choral music  Lass="view_less_link" href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="$(this).getParent().getPrevious().style.dispLay='';$(this).getParent().style.dispLay='none';">less

blog: Integrating new choir members: a guide for new singers, existing members and choir leaders

[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: New ensemble: Spectrum Singers

  This has been a long time coming. For the past several years I’ve mused about forming an interfaith vocal ensemble, but it never seemed to be the right time.   Now it is.   Feel free to join me. We already have rehearsal spac...

blog: Singing out of tune isn’t always a bad thing

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   There was an article by Alex Petridis in The Guardian a few years back in which he cLaimed that:   “singing out of tune can convey emotions tha...