by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Jun 30, 2020 | Community, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
Taking a vibrant, happy choir out of their comfort zone, away from each other and into lockdown could’ve been disastrous for us. The technology isn’t available for us to ‘sing together’ online. Facebook live doesn’t have the capacity for...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Jun 28, 2020 | Community, Teaching, Workplace Singing
I’m a colourful soul and so I arrange my choirs accordingly! I’ve always been keen to use language and terms that my singers will understand. One singer asked me years ago “Excuse me, what exactly is a soprano? I only know the TV show.” So I...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Apr 5, 2020 | Community, Liberty Chorus, Liberty Singer, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
It wasn’t something any of us planned and yet we’ve managed to make it work! In the last couple of weeks, I’ve managed to move my community choir to a paid online membership group via Facebook, I’ve met with my smaller choir via zoom and...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Mar 20, 2020 | Community, Liberty Singer
Jackie Shears and I have worked together to create a 20 minute podcast talking about how we can best stay connected during these tricky times. We may or may not end up in hysterics…. Staying connected.
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Apr 17, 2019 | Community, Liberty Singer, Teaching
I’ve been spending some time with a few of these guys recently. I was approached to help them with their ensemble piece for a competition. I like a community project and especially one with young people and so I accepted. We had a group of five teenagers and...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Mar 2, 2019 | Community, Liberty Singer, Workshops
A truly lovely way to start the week!! I had 38 voices for my Fix You workshop (part 1).We made a lovely sound and got lots of tricky harmony stuff done. Delighted that my ‘huddling technique’ worked so well! What I also liked and made a note of was that...
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