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...

Why would anyone bother to join a choir? Why would somebody ever want to do that? Most of us will REMEMBER some experience singing at school- be it good or bad- the national anthem, some song for a concert or a play with a song, a teacher strumming a ...

You may be teaching yourself how to sing (by reading books and watching videos online) or taking singing lessons to improve your voice. As a beginner singer, you need a lot of real time feedback and guidance.   I still REMEMBER tak...

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...

First Published: Notthechurchlady 'Have Organ Shoes will Travel' by Kelly Galbraith   Of course I’ll do it!’ I told maestro David Fallis. I REMEMBER the morning well, Sunday Dec 8, 2013 because it was the day after Ca...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I teach a song in the morning and it’s sounding pretty good.   photo by kalavinka   Then after lunch I get the group to stand f...

Inkosi Jesu is a beautiful piece composed in reembrace of Christ's suffering, death and resurrection. It takes us through a series of emotions as we REMEMBER these historic moments when Christ died for our sins.

 [this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   Some time ago I tried a new idea (for me any way) for helping people to learn songs.   Photo by Ramesh Lalwani   I decided to associa...

One of my earliest a cappella compositions composed when I was 22, the haunting and melancholic "Elegy of Anne Boleyn" based on an anonymous poem I found in my local library in 1983, is now available at my website. I REMEMBER being very inspired by Debuss...

Oh I know.  I am really stretching your patience mixing those lines in the title.  I just couldn't help it.  You see, I LOVE to talk.  I don't even need an audience.  I can talk until the wallpaper curls. I do REMEMBER many y...