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      • Singing is all about listening
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      • Invent a singing workshop (and win a free place)
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      • Does a community make a choir, or does a choir cre...
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      • The social side of singing: any excuse for a tea b...
      • Don’t sing what you don’t know (or don’t like)
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      • Setting your goals for 2012 (guaranteed to work!)
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      • The 10 most popular posts of 2011
      • Focusing on the one frown in a sea of smiling face...
      • Keeping a choir happy – you can’t please everyone
      • How to stop singers using word sheets in concerts
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      • You are not alone – most people in your choir thin...
      • 10 ways to breathe new life into old songs
      • Why it’s easier to sing to 1,000 strangers than fr...
      • Stop me if you’ve sung this before: learning diffe...
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      • Taking a song from source to performance – the man...
      • We’ve come to sing, not to learn!
      • Are singing workshops just a middle-class pastime?...
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      • Too many cooks – benign dictators rule!
      • Starting over – going back to choir after a long b...
      • What songs do atheists sing?
      • Name that tune! – earworms, musical memory and oth...
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      • Confession: I don’t like to sing much
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      • How singing together creates communities
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I am a singing workshop leader specialising in unaccompanied harmony songs from around the world. I lead community choirs and run regular singing workshops with a wide range of themes.

I am a member of the Natural Voice Practitioners' Network and share their beliefs that everybody can sing (so I don’t hold auditions, anybody is welcome to join) and that nobody should be denied access to music (hence I don’t use written notation, all songs are taught by ear).

I founded and currently run the communtiy choir The OK Chorale in Woodbridge, Suffolk.

I am the founder of the UK community choir WorldSong in Coventry and led Woven Chords in Stamford from 2000 to 2010. Until recently I also led a 12-piece women's ensemble Vox Mondiale and a more theatrical project: FOOT + MOUTH voice-theatre.
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