The Brocal Chords perform at the Drake University Relay for Life fundraiser.

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   The average age of people who attend the choirs and workshops that I run must be around 50. I would say that about a third of any group is of retirement ag...

Singing Victoria's Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae for the Spanish Musicology Society's special meeting on Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Singing Victoria's Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae for the Spanish Musicology Society's special meeting on Tomás Luis de Victoria.

Thank you Aaron for giving me more confidence in my voice and my passion to sing. Your tips and help allowed me to have the best of myself. I'd love for more people who are as passionate about sing and that would like to be an artist. He's worked with the...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I read an article in the latest Sounding Board (the journal of community music from Sound Sense) about the University of Sunderland’s new BA in...

I am an auditory learner. Rather than reading instructions, doing something manually, or watching someone do something, I need to incorporate information through my ears and process it with my listening in order for it to be fully engrained.  You can...

[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...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I was collecting money at a workshop recently (something I nearly always forget as I always get so carried away with the Singing!) and somebody mention...