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Vocal Chords at Crystal Palace Overground Festival this Sunday
Sunday 18th June 1pm for only half an hour, so make sure you get there on time! At The Secret Garden, Coxwell Road, 70 Westow Street SE19 3AF. More songs of protest and change. Here’s a snippet from the Brockley Max gig to get you in the mood
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TODAY: Songs of Protest at Brockley Max
Vocal Chords are reprising our Songs of Protest repertoire for Brockley MAX Festival today, Sunday 4th June at 3.30. St Hilda’s Church, Courtrai Road SE23 1PL We are joined by Carrie Cohen & Silas Hawkins who will read poems from Arachne Press’ Liberty Tales anthology. £7 on the door (proceeds to Wheels for Wellbeing)…
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Songs of Protest
Back in the day, when you went on a march through London – something I did a lot of in my youth, starting with the march against the Corrie Bill, and moving on to Section 28, the Police Bill, Anti-Nuclear marches with CND, Reclaim the Night, anti-cuts marches with various unions, Lesbian Strength, Gay Pride…
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out and about with Carmen
I’ve not been on here much recently, there’s been too much happening. The opera – of course the opera! Each year I’ve done more and written about it less. Barely managing a faint tweet now and then this year. Carmen, under the direction of Chris Rolls had us on stage almost all the time even…
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Vocal Chords Hold Back the River
I may have mentioned that sometimes I sing? This is me, buried in the tenor section of Vocal Chords in our first professionally produced video You Tube of James Bay’s Hold Back the River.
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World Premier… my very first tune
Organising Longest Night kept me away from my own blog for a while, but it was completely worth it, not least because it gave me an opportunity to share my first ever musical composition with musicians who would do it justice. Here are Ian Kennedy and Sarah Lloyd singing The Cold Time. This is a…
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Join In: Folk Song Workshop for Winter
LESTER SIMPSON FOLK SONG WORKSHOP SECULAR WINTER SONGS LEARN AROUND 5 SONGS SATURDAY 28TH NOVEMBER 2015 12:45- 17:15 ST HILDA’S CHURCH HALL COURTRAI ROAD SE23 1NL bus routes 122, P4, 171, 172 stop on the corner. train to Crofton Park or Honor Oak Park 10 minute walk. advanced booking required Book Here £25 INCLUDES REFRESHMENTS all…
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How Idomeneo looks from here
The audience are never going to experience an opera the way the chorus does. Even though performance in the round gives them some idea, as they peer through the crowds to catch a glimpse of th action, but actually, the action is what they are peering round. Our chorus experience is sweaty, loud and partial…
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Orchestral Manoeuvres
One of the delights of being involved in the community opera at Blackheath Halls is working with the Blackheath Halls Community Orchestra. We don’t get to hear what they are up to until the sitz probe, when we run through the entire opera and work out the corners. This is one of my favourite sessions,…
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Who are all these people?
We are a reading household (there’s a surprise) and an oft-quoted exclamation, when one of us, uninvited, reads an extract from the current book to the other is ‘Who are all these people?’ I think it’s from a Peter Nichols play but I could be wrong – we are also very poor on attribution. So…
Cherry Potts, Writer 