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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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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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readings this week
Busy week again, singing Monday (Vocal Chords mid-project ‘stop-over’ concert) and Sunday (rehearsing Brundibar at Blackheath – more on this later), teaching Tuesday, reading Saturday. So the readings are: Saturday: Arachne Press event at Keats House – readings from The Other Side of Sleep, and discussion of Narrative Poetry. I’m not reading personally apart form…
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Tall ships and icecream floats
It’s been a manic few days, getting the review copies of The Other Side of Sleep out, sorting fliers for the exhibition, hounding people as nicely as I can to support the crowd funding for Solstice shorts. taking the cat the vet, rehearsing the songs Vocal Chords are singing at The Tall Ships Festival in…
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Songs of the Sea
Well, for a writing blog there’s a heck of a lot about singing on here. This post is no exception. Vocal Chords, my regular choir, are splashing out in Forest Hill on Saturday July 19th (The only day that week that I’m not rehearsing or performing in Count Ory at Blackheath. 3pm St Saviour’s Church,…
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Vocal Chords sing Sea Coal at Nunhead Cemetery
Nunhead Cemetery Open Day is a fixture in our diaries. We sing in the ruined chapel after a rehearsal locally.This year there was a bit of a hitch as Mel hadn’t realised she was the wrong side of an enormous bike ride in the centre of London so she arrived just as we were due…
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Community Choirs Festival Stratford upon Avon
At last I’ve remembered to look for the video from our trip to Stratford, here it is. more of the concert from other people here
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Vocal Chords on Radio3
Listen to me talking about our lovely choir, Vocal Chords, with us singing too… on iPlayer: Radio3’s The Choir, 0n until Sunday 16th March. We’re about 32 mins in.
Cherry Potts, Writer 