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Can virtual singing keep colleagues together even whilst apart?
Can virtual singing bring colleagues who are working from home together? Yes it can!
Why are male voices so important for community choirs?
I could wax lyrical (no pun intended) all day long about male voices. The depth! The resonance! I love it! And so with so few men singing in my community choir, I'm constantly on the look out (or listen out) for male voices. But why?! I liken my choirs to cake - I may...
How is it to be back face to face singing?
The West Bridgford Liberty Singers became the Online Liberty Singers in March 2020. We all know why. We started on Facebook live, then graduated to zoom the following October. Roughly 100 brave souls stayed with us online learning new material, creating virtual...
Returning to singing… by Jackie Shears
BREAKING NEWS: Residents in the sought after hamlet of West Bridgford were alarmed to discover a secret meeting taking place in a local community centre last night. "I think it were a clinic of some sort" muttered local resident, Harold Twitcher (108), on condition of...
Our first face-to-face singing since March 2020….
Last night, a little bit of magic happened. I'm planning to take my community choir back to face to face singing in September but am also planning to run a hybrid zoom session. I get quite nervous about technology and things not working, so I tested the kit out at the...
Does singing help with wellbeing?
I'm bound to say "Of course it does!!" but don't just take my word for it! My choirs have expanded over lockdown. I now have my community choir (The Online Liberty Singers, soon to revert to being The West Bridgford Liberty Singers again from September), The Liberty...
Togetherness
I could talk all day about how singing together makes us feel amazing! But what I'm actually going to talk about is songs about Togetherness starting with an absolute club classic - 'Together Again' by Janet Jackson. This has got to be the happiest song about death...
Can virtual singing keep colleagues together even whilst apart?
Can virtual singing bring colleagues who are working from home together? Yes it can!