[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   A friend of mine asked the other day: “How do you find songs? And how do you do vocal arrangeMents of them?”   Photo by Jorge Fr...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Singing together in a group is soMething special. It is a very different experience from singing on your own. But what exactly is it that we get from singing...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I love my job, I really do. I just need soMe space and a bunch of people and we will make beautiful music together.   Photo by Heather Jennings &...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most of the people who coMe to my singing workshops are in their 50s and pretty much all of them have a story to tell about the tiMe soMeone told the...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Most choirs charge their singers to be a Member (‘subs’). The amount can vary a lot from choir to choir.     What’s ...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Three years ago, for the first tiMe in over 13 years, I started a choir from scratch. I put a call out to my readers for advice on how to recruit singers t...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir]   Singing is very simple really: you open your mouth and the sound coMes out.   photo by chaosmunkey   But we often allow our heads (an...

[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog From the Front of the choir] Ann read my post The six qualities need to be a good choral director and it sparked off a quite a rant. photo by bagogaMes She has obviously had a bad exp...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   We’ve all seen it: a timid, slouched, nervous person approaches the microphone. We expect disaster. They open their mouth and the most amazing, beauti...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From the Front of the choir]   I was running a one-day workshop a while back and it seeMed to Me that the whole thing wasn’t gelling. People seeMed uninspired, energy was low, and i...