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 | 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 | Jul 1, 2019 | Liberty Singer, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
So much sunshine laughter and fun at the Rushcliffe Borough Council annual ‘Proms in the Park’ in West Bridgford last Saturday! Around 80 of the West Bridgford Liberty Singers turned out in the heat to belt our a few of our favourite classics in front of...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | Jun 5, 2019 | Liberty Chorus, Liberty Singer, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
I’ve sung both of these songs before with both my previous adult choir and the school choir which I ran for 4 years. I’d like to think I know them both inside out! But every time I revisit a song after some time away from it, there are little additions and...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | May 18, 2019 | Guest Post, Liberty Singer, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
Sing Yourself Human Did you know you can use singing to switch off bits of your brain and given them a rest….? As odd as it sounds, it’s really true…… It turns out your brain can either ‘think about stuff’ or it can ‘feel sensations’ but it can’t do both those things...
by Kari Olsen-Porthouse | May 12, 2019 | Liberty Singer, West Bridgford Liberty Singers
Just Like Heaven was the third single released from the Cure’s ‘Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me’ album in 1987. This is one of my favourite Cure albums – I had it on double vinyl and played to to death. Last Friday I popped round to my mate’s...
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