After an outing at our latest Sing Day in North Yorkshire, this lovely gently flowing arrangement of Tim Knight's 'the Lord bless you and keep you' proved to be immensely popular so we've now made it available on our website (you can also source the piece...

Through the past thousands of years, choir singing has become more and more widespread, more and more part of our everyDay lives. We can only contemplate how it started - maybe with religious rituals? Or work songs? But nowaDays, choir singing - and mus...

Senfl's complex madrigal about joining in the Dance performed here by the dwsChorale (multitracking one-man choir) Lyrics (English translation below) Mit Lust tret ich an diesen Tanz, ich hoff, mir werd ein schöner Kranz von einem schön Jungfrä...  moreSenfl's complex madrigal about joining in the Dance performed here by the dwsChorale (multitracking one-man choir) Lyrics (English translation below) Mit Lust tret ich an diesen Tanz, ich hoff, mir werd ein schöner Kranz von einem schön Jungfräuelein darum will ich ihr eigen sein. So tret ich hie auf einen Stein: Gott grüss mirs zart Jungfräuelein! Und grüss euch Gott allsamt geleich, sie seien arm oder reich, Gott grüss euch all in einer G’mein, darzu auch die klein! So ich ein grüss, die ander nit, so wär ich kein rechter Singer nit! Right pleased am I to join this Dance, I hope a beautiful young maiden will give me a garland then I will be her own So I step up here upon a stone Tender maiden may God greet you and may God greet all here the same, be they poor or rich God greet everyone together here, even the little ones! Because if I greet one and not the other, I would not be a true singer!  less

Okay- so I've been a bit slack about blogging lately.  Not that I have been idol- there is so much to blog about but 24 hours in a Day a full time job and more music than I can ever learn to play means there  isn't enough time!   In the l...

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[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the Choir]   I watched a TV documentary the other Day called How a choir works with Gareth Malone.   Photo by theCamerons   At one point he talked about...

Music has always had the powers to lift our spirits and make the Day seem a little brighter. As we age, music can be one of the most comforting ways to connect with our favorite past-times. Hearing the song you once Danced to with your sweetheart as a tee...

A Year As a Nomad:   April 4, 2023, marked the last Day I spent in my birth country. I shared breakfast with my brother and mother, showed my boarding pass, and within minutes, I was on a plane to London. What happened during all that time? ...

SABELANI Music Initiative has put on hold workshops due to the Lock Down enforced by the S. African Government on the 27th March.If the Lock Down is lifted on the 16th April as planned we will be celebrating World Voice Day on the 18th April as well as jo...

This was originally published on the Embro Thistle Singers' blog.  I was reading an article posted to Facebook the other Day.  Esa-Pekka Salonen became a conductor when he filled in for an absent colleague.     In the following sh...