Category Archives: Community

Things happening locally that I care about, or get involved in

Chorus Festival – South Bank

Posted on May 6, 2013 by

Here are is a video clip and a photo of Vocal Chords doing their thing at the festival,- we were by the Mandela statue on Sunday at 1. We also sang in the opening event.           … Continue reading →

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Chorus

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

This weekend I’m singing. OK I know, I sing all the time, but this is in public, and at the South Bank Centre. The magnificent Chorus festival, a fixture for several years now over the May Bank Holiday, is on … Continue reading →

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Listening between the notes

Posted on April 11, 2013 by

Monday Night, Croydon Folk Club, Coope Boyes & Simpson gig. I know I spend a lot of time writing about music, but there is method in it. In the right circumstances, and these were they, being in the front row, … Continue reading →

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Water Aid Day singing

Posted on March 20, 2013 by

Vocal Chords are singing in St Pancras Station, London, opposite the National Ticket Office at 6pm this Friday, 22nd March. We are raising money for Water Aid by singing our favourite Sing For Water songs. If you are on your … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Benjamin Britten

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

So, it’s still LGBT History month, and it’s also Benjamin Britten’s centenary so what better way to celebrate the magnificence of BB’s unapologetic gayness and talent than to sing in Noye’s Fludd? A. has had an ambition to sing some … Continue reading →

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Festive Spirits

Posted on December 26, 2012 by

Christmas is all about singing for me, either performing, or in the audience.  This year was no exception, starting with a superb workshop of traditional folk carols with Lester Simpson on the 1st December. We learnt Adam Lay ybounden (15th … Continue reading →

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Gearing up for Yule

Posted on November 24, 2012 by

I don’t care how many shopping days, what matters now is, how many singing days are there til the Solstice? And how many reading days? My evenings are  split roughly equally between singing and promoting the books between now and … Continue reading →

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Blackheath Mini Prom – better late than never

Posted on November 10, 2012 by

As someone should probably have told me when I was a nipper, don’t promise what you can’t deliver. So here, very late, is my review of the Mini Prom at Blackheath Halls way back on the 5th October.  In my … Continue reading →

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The Singing Season

Posted on September 19, 2012 by

Not that the singing season ever went away, it’s a bit like football, the break gets shorter all the time; but we didn’t do Sing for Water this year because of A’s broken leg, so larynx and lungs feeling a … Continue reading →

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Blackheath Cendrillon: A slipper and a ring

Posted on July 23, 2012 by

L.C. here.  This is my last post on behalf of Cherry.  She says I’ve behaved very irresponsibly and I am lucky not to have been had up in front of the Leveson Enquiry.  Anyway, I’m feeling a bit crest-fallen because … Continue reading →

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