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blog: Stopping singers FROM zoning out when saying something important for the hundredth TIME

[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: Trying to please all the people all the TIME

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog FROM the Front of the Choir]   I found myself last week arranging a bunch of songs to teach at the weekend. As usual, I’d left it far too late and was feeling rushed.   &nb...

blog: Music is too freely available – 10 things we've lost because of that

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog FROM the Front of the Choir]   Once upon a TIME you could only hear your favourite song if you travelled to a live performance. It was a special, one-off, shared experience.   ...

blog: Dear Earh - The consortium that will unite the choirs to help the Amazon.

At the TIME of writing music, my mission was always to bring people together. It seems to me that the union that is achieved thanks to singing is one of the most transcendental unions that humans can experience. With "Dear Earth" I wanted to go one step b...

blog: 6 facts about singing to help first-TIME singers

[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 could be better than singing and spending some TIME in Caorle/Venice in May?

At meeting music, we all adore Venice and its surrandings: the palaces, romantic buildings, lagoons and gondolas, the clean and tiny charm of the small cities around… Have you ever been there? If not, you should come and join us, if yes, you alread...

blog: Looking after yourself in a busy concert season

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog FROM the Front of the Choir]   For many of us, this TIME of year is just one concert after another. It’s great to be doing so much singing, but it can have its downsides. &n...

blog: Mood of Christmas 2013; A 10th TIME Success

10 years ago, when Yasmin Cader asked Soul Sounds to do a concert at the then Colombo Plaza, little did I know that 10 years later we would still be singing heralding the birth of Christ at the same venue... I thank god for the blessings, and thank all in...

blog: Waiting for Early Birds fly to Budapest

This will be the 17th TIME that we return to capital of Hungary. If you still hesitate about this event, now you can see deeper in the scene by participants of earlier Budapest International Choir Competition & Festival. “You created a plac...

blog: How to get your choir to pay attention to you (and stop chatting!)

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog FROM the Front of the Choir] At the beginning of each choir rehearsal it’s as if the singers have not seen each other for years. They chat away, having a fine TIME of things. &n...