[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in The UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...

[this is a version of a post which first appeared on my blog From The Front of The Choir]   To make singing as accessible as possible, I don’t use sheet music when I teach. This often freaks out people who are used to having a score in Their...

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I'm always trying to get more men singing.   for some reason some men don't like mixed group, but prefer to sing with Their own kind. I must admit that There is something special about hearing all male (or all female) voices in harmony togeTher - i...

photo by Gordon Smith

Barlow Bradford's Utah Chamber Artists perform "Run, Toboggan Run" by Abbie Betinis in Their 2012 Christmas Concert at Libby Gardner Concert Hall. Publisher: Fred Bock Co / HT Fitzsimons.

compiled clips of some of 2009 set list

[The views expressed in this blog are from my personal experiences from 25 years of leading non-auditioned community choirs in The UK, as well as adult singing workshops. My focus is on teaching by ear using a repertoire of songs from traditions across th...

  Life works in mysterious ways. Sometimes, without meaning to, you can get a song or a jingle stuck in your head and end up singing or humming it for hours - or even days. On The oTher hand, when you are actively trying to learn a poem, lyric, or a...