Welcome to my cyber portal! Here you can find out more about what I do, where I do it and with whom! You can tell me about your singing story, and how I might be able to help you on your creative journey. You can book onto singing workshops, join choirs and also buy my compositions, complete with scores, audio packages and licences, from my shop. Browse the shop
This month I’ve been working on two fantastic theatre projects – Angela El-Zeind’s funny, raw and honest Rebel Boobs and Sun & Sea which is part of LIFT, London’s biennial international festival of theatre.
I’ve also started daytime harmony singing groups in Brighton and Shoreham and am preparing for an UpRoar People’s Ceilidh with Rory McLeod! Click here to join my mailing list and keep up-to-date with all the latest community singing events and opportunities.
Vocal Harmony On the Radio
Each month I present Vox Pop Radio. Sponsored by Hullabaloo Quire Vox Pop is a celebration of vocal harmony and community singing.
This month I’m in the hot seat with Margate based musician and animateur, Jodie Watson. Jodi is involved with Beyond The Page, an innovative programme that blends choral warm ups and singing with ESOL lessons for migrants and asylum seekers. As well as this, I bring you a cornucopia of harmonic delights from a creative broad church, including Hozier, Les Grandes Gueules, Poppy Ajudha, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss.
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Singing together is a great social and creative leveller, community singing is good for our mind, body and soul; it supports our respiration, releases endorphins and lowers cortisol, it strengthens bonds and forges new connections and it nurtures our creativity and opens us to rhythm, roots and resonance…singing is our birthright!
Ways you can work with me
I work with community choirs, singing groups, theatre groups and corporations, mainly in the field of a cappella harmony singing, but I also run workshops and courses in group composition, improvisation, singing with cross rhythms and percussion, stagecraft and group movement for simple performance technique. Explore sections below.
Background and philosophy
Community singing remains one of the purest and strongest creative bonds that can be shared by groups of people. Even those (and especially those) who feel they ‘can’t sing’. Even those (and especially those) who were told to ‘stand at the back of the choir and mime’.
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