Cloudstreet vocal harmony w'shop & show

Subject: Cloudstreet vocal harmony w'shop & show
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 02 Feb 12 - 12:14 PM

Lewes Saturday Folk Club
Workshop No 157
CLOUDSTREET
VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP

Places £35
Saturday 28th. April 2012
10.45 a.m.- 4.45 p.m.
Elephant & Castle White Hill Lewes BN7 2DJ

From Australia, Nicole Murray & John Thompson offer hot harmonies with spellbindingly precise delivery. They add humour, vitality & excitement to traditional & modern Australian, English & Celtic songs & tunes. Guitar, flute, fiddle, whistle & concertina enrich the mixture. John is also a member of The Spooky Men's Chorale & has an excellent blog, An Australian Folk Song A Day.

This workshop day offers the perfect opportunity to discover & explore vocal harmony. We will cover warm-ups for body & voice, useful techniques to enhance your tone, breathing, pitch, phrasing & rhythm, enjoyable songs in parts, & improvisation & harmony development.

IN THE EVENING CLOUDSTREET PLAY AT THE ELEPHANT & CASTLE
(£7: tickets from Lewes Saturday Folk Club, its website or the address at end of this message)

CLOUDSTREET VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP
Saturday 28th. April 2012
Provisional Timetable

10.45 Registration & coffee; order lunch (Refreshments are not included.)

11.00 A comprehensive approach to physical & vocal warm-ups. Singing techniques - getting the basics right.

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Building harmonies. Matching pitch, blending tones & applying these techniques in song.

15.00 Tea/coffee break

15.15 - 16.45 Further exploration. Improvisation & developing your own harmonies.

N.B. Booking is recommended as numbers are limited. Maps & accommodation lists will be sent on request.

CLOUDSTREET VOCAL HARMONY WORKSHOP
Saturday 28th. April 2012

BOOKING FORM
I enclose a cheque for £35.00 for workshop fees (refreshments not included).

Name:

Address:






Telephone:

E-mail address:

No. of tickets for evening performance:
(£7 each, include SAE for these)

Tick for map: Tick for accommodation list:

Please make cheques payable to Lewes Arms Folk Club (that's right) and send with this booking form to:

Valmai Goodyear, 20, St. John's Terrace,
Lewes, East Sussex BN7 2DL
Tel. [phone]
[e-mail]
www.lewessaturdayfolkclub.org/

Subject: RE: Cloudstreet vocal harmony w'shop & show
From: Tangledwood
Date: 02 Feb 12 - 03:48 PM

Cloudstreet's workshops are always productive and lots of fun. We just had a wonderful week with them at the Celtic Summer School at Campaspe Downs, Victoria, Oz.

Subject: RE: Cloudstreet vocal harmony w'shop & show
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 25 Mar 12 - 05:58 AM

We still have places for the workshop and also evening tickets, but don't leave it too late.

John & Nicole have a new CD on the point of release, The Land of Bright Gold.

Valmai (Lewes)

Subject: RE: Cloudstreet vocal harmony w'shop & show
From: Valmai Goodyear
Date: 09 Apr 12 - 02:38 AM

Places are still available and I'm looking forward to making a cake for John's recent birthday!

Valmai (Lewes)