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06 Apr 19 - 06:02 AM (#3986127) Subject: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute Morrigan will be hosting a series of singing workshops for part singing of folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams at Leith Hill Place nesr Dorking in Surrey (his childhood home and a National Trust property). All are welcome including children over the age of 12. The workshops run from 6-8pm and will run on 10th April, 8th May, 5th June, 3rd July with a performance on Sunday 7th July. You can attend some or all workshops and they are FREE. Spread the word More details here Leith Hill Place Workshops Sorry for duplication but couldn't see how to change the date in the thread title - if anyone can please amalgamate - they are definitely starting on 10th April not May!!! |
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07 Apr 19 - 02:23 PM (#3986321) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute bump |
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09 Apr 19 - 08:08 AM (#3986584) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute First workshop tomorrow! |
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10 Apr 19 - 04:32 AM (#3986714) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute This evening |
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11 Apr 19 - 05:44 AM (#3986858) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute 18 people came along last night which was great. Singing in Vaughan William's front room. Please spread the word and see if anyone else wants to come along too. You don't have to attend every workshop and there will be a performance by all who attended on 7th July. |
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11 Apr 19 - 06:28 AM (#3986861) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Jim Carroll Would be very interested to find out how you work, if it's not an imposition Sarah Jim Carroll |
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11 Apr 19 - 04:43 PM (#3986956) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute Sure Jim If you are not too far away do come and join us! Basically we do a bit of a call and response warm up exercise Morrigan then sing through the song in harmony as a model We then divide everyone up according to what part they would like to sing - no pressure if they just want to sing the tune We give everyone copies of the music and words We then split up with each of us taking our part singers to a different area and sing through the parts We reconvene and then all sing through the whole song in harnony Then we repeat for one other song and usually have time to make a start on a third We put music and words with some sound files on our website to help people in between the workshops We did similar last year with schools and adults for an instillation project at LHP and shorter workshops at Tenterden Folk Festival in 2017 and last year for an evening at The Drum folk club in Kent |
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12 Apr 19 - 03:10 AM (#3986994) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Jim Carroll "If you are not too far away do come and join us! " Would love to Sarah, but I live in the West of Ireland and the buses aren't too frequent here I have been involved in singing workshops for most of my life - in Manchester and in London Recently Irish music here has soared in popularity here in Ireland, particularly in our town, Miltown Malbay Singing is a little slower in getting started and I'm trying to persuade local people involved in local culture to take it up seriously and pick a method of 'teaching' (not sure singing can be taught) that's most suitable for them Back home, we found the most efficient way was to get the group working on ach others singing without a leader (other than a good chairman) - a volunteer would sing, the group would discuss the strengths and weaknesses and a couple of aspects would be chosen to concentrate on for, say half an hour That way, everybody was concentrating on how the voice was being produced New singers with particular problems would be worked on privately by volunteers The main difficulty was to get used to the idea of having your singing discussed publicly (this came down to a matter of trusting your fellow group members) We developed voice production, singing and relaxation exercises, and later, methods of relating yourself to your songs Sounds complicated - it isn't and it worked like a charm for many of us Over here they use the handing around sheets method - never really worked for me unless you wanted to sing in harmony - Irish traditional singing is very much a solo affair Thanks for letting me know how you work - good luck with your workshops Jim |
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12 Apr 19 - 04:50 AM (#3987010) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute My family are from Cork and I frequent Irish sessions over here so aware of the issues of solo singing - we will be doing The Lads of Kilkenny in 4 part harmony in our arrangement later in our workshops so do take a look at our website next month and the sound files, words and music should be uploaded sometime mid May for that. Interestingly RVW collected the song from a labourer at Leith Hill who had learned it from his father who presumably was Irish Sarah |
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13 Apr 19 - 07:29 AM (#3987175) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute The first sound files for Sprig of Thyme together with music and words with our Morrigan arrangement are now up on our website Sprig of Thyme |
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13 Apr 19 - 04:47 PM (#3987216) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Andy7 That looks excellent, thanks for the info. I've signed up for the next 3 sessions! Andy7 |
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20 Apr 19 - 05:47 AM (#3988328) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute Just keeping this thread alive in case there is anyone else interested. Look forward to seeing you Andy on 8th May which is the next workshop date |
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22 Apr 19 - 08:41 AM (#3988546) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute bump |
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27 Apr 19 - 07:01 AM (#3989507) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: GUEST refresh |
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02 May 19 - 04:16 PM (#3990414) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute All of the songs with our arrangement of parts are now available on the Morrigan website. Do take a look and see if you would like to come and join in. You don't have to attend all the workshops to take part in the performance Morrigan workshop songs |
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02 May 19 - 05:06 PM (#3990422) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Andy7 Thanks for that link Sarah, I'll print them off ready for next week. It will be quite something, to sing folk songs collected by Vaughan Williams, in his childhood home! Not something you get to do many times in a lifetime! |
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04 May 19 - 04:45 AM (#3990689) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute bump |
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04 May 19 - 10:43 AM (#3990690) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: GUEST There are still 10 places left for the session on 8th May. |
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07 May 19 - 11:48 AM (#3991289) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute Tomorrow |
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08 May 19 - 05:57 PM (#3991498) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Andy7 Many thanks to Morrigan for an excellent evening session at the beautiful Leith Hill Place! Very nice arrangements of the songs, and good guidance and support. And chocolate biscuits, too! Well worth going along to their next session on 5th June, if you're within travelling distance. |
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09 May 19 - 05:56 PM (#3991574) Subject: RE: Singing workshops Surrey from 10th April From: Sarah the flute Thanks Andy for driving up to join us and glad you enjoyed the evening. Bring friends - the more the merrier! See you next month If anyone has trouble registering via the National Trust site then just give Natalie at Leith Hill Place a call and she will arrange everything |