"Choir" Blogs & Blog Posts

Last week I wrote about the first step to becoming a singer. photo by Rex Pe You need to actually start singing! Now here’s step 2. Once you’ve started to sing on your own, you’ll probably find that you want to do more of it and perh...

What happens when you put hundreds of people in the same room for a group singalong? Pure magic! That's exactly the energy Pub Choir in Australia nailed with their 1600-person rendition of Radiohead's "Creep." [via Kottke] This video is from Oct...

People often write to me asking me why it takes them ages to learn a song. photo by matea2506 They think it might be due to age, dyslexia, or all manner of other ‘problems’. But it’s probably simpler than that. In a choir, when...

My partner is always sending me videos with ideas for singing warm ups, usually involving complex clapping or stepping. I tell her that they will be too difficult for the singers I work with. But am I being too safe and under-estimating...

Sometimes an individual choir member needs to be told that they’re getting it wrong.  photo by Ondřej Lipár In our attempt to not be unkind, we can sometimes end up being too nice, which is not helpful. Too often people believe...

We went to the theatre the other day and we were the only people in the audience wearing masks. photo by Nigel Mykura But in all other ways, we were exactly the same as any other audience member. The same, but different. A choir wor...

I’m always looking for new ideas for the warm up start of my singing sessions. But constant novelty is not necessarily a good thing. It can often lead to overlooking old, familiar, tried and tested exercises. I admit I have a low bo...