Using Customised Backing Tracks
Using backing tracks to accompany your singers can help to give the performance a real sense of authenticity. It can improve the overall rhythm and groove – both for your …
Lullaby from Australia
Sharing songs from different cultures helps us to become aware and learn more of those cultures. ‘Inanay’ is an Australian aboriginal lullaby. It is sung in Yorta Yorta, the language of …
5 Fun Ways to Start Your Choir Session
First impressions count, right? So the same goes with how you kick off your regular choir session with your singers. Getting your choir engaged in the first 5 mins can …
Roger Emerson: Getting Started
By word of introduction, back at the outset of the pandemic, when I launched the CCL, I answered a ‘Monday Motivation’ Facebook post by Roger Emerson who was offering to share his music in online reading sessions with choir leaders.
Tips for Marketing Your Choir
I launched my first community choir at the primary school where I was the music teacher. I had a three pronged attack to my audience.
Teaching Vocal and Choral Technique
So you’re probably reading this blog because you have a community choir. Or maybe you have a school choir squeezed into your lunch break. And when you read the title …
8 Mistakes I Made…
Five years ago, I set up The Great Day Choir – a daytime pop choir for women of all ages. At the time, I was feeling constrained in my job …
Ta dah!
If you’ve got a performance with your choir coming up, then take the opportunity to use it as a great awareness raising activity for your choir. Performances can be one of the best ways to showcase your singers and your programme. Plus it can be one of the most effective ways to attract new
Taster Session: Pros and Cons
Do you offer a taster session for interested people to try out your choir? What are the pros and cons? Have you really thought through your intention for offering one? …
The quickest ways to help new singers feel a part of your choir community
A remarkable aspect of Military Wives Choirs is that new singers are made to feel welcome and part of the community as soon as possible. Why is this? Military families …