Sing the Cambridge Colleges: an exceptional opportunity to sing in three of the Cambridge college chapels led by Jane Harris and Alexander Ling. Sing in inspiring and beautiful settings, immerse yourself in glorious harmonies and experience the colleges from the inside. Thursday 9 April 2:15pm to Saturday 11 April approx. 10pm FULL DETAILS AND BOOKING Led [...]
A special participatory singing event in Wells Cathedral and Chapter House led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways "A most beautiful experience… a magical evening" Join us to sing, harmonise, promenade and let our voices soar in the glorious open space of Wells Cathedral and Chapter House. Explore the resonance of this ancient and sacred building with your singing [...]
Our third Songways singing weekend at Halsway Manor, the National Centre for Folk Arts was an absolute joy. Fifty singers gathered for a full weekend of singing, dancing, music, fun and friendship - led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways and Pip Wright, Kana Kernow - Singing Cornwall. On the Saturday evening we enjoyed a wonderful [...]
Seventy singers gathered for American singer-composer Moira Smiley in Bath and enjoyed an afternoon and evening immersed in wonderful old songs and inventive, joyous new sounds. In a special collaboration, the evening concert featured songs from Moira’s Rhizome Project album, performed with the Balladeste string quartet and Rolling Harmony vocal ensemble. "SUCH a superlative day [...]
Join our Bath choir on Wednesday evenings or the Bradford on Avon choir on Friday mornings, both led by Jane Harris. We sing in two beautiful and spacious venues: Wednesdays 7:30 – 9:30pm St Swithin’s Church, Bath BA1 5LY Fridays 9:45 – 11:45am Holy Trinity Church, Bradford on Avon BA15 1LW Expect a warm welcome [...]
On a beautiful early September day, singers gathered from near and far for our singing workshop in the Great Oak Hall, Westonbirt Arboretum... from Gloucestershire, Bath, Bristol, Warwick, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Jane led songs inspired by the natural world and the trees themselves, including her own compositions with her violin. Comments from singers... "Absolutely loved [...]
Join American singer-composer Moira Smiley in Bath for an afternoon and evening immersed in incredible old songs and inventive, joyous new sounds. Singer, composer, and song-collector Moira Smiley has sung in arenas, cathedrals, kitchens, back porches, sound stages, and on glaciers. She has performed with the likes of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Tune-Yards, Tim O’Brien, Eric Whitacre, Los [...]
Fifty-five singers enjoyed a wonderful week of harmony singing in a magnificent 15th-century abbey led by John Harrison from Vermont, US, Jane Harris of Songways, and Carlo Pozzoli from Milan. We stayed in the beautiful 15th century Abbazia di Maguzzano overlooking the southern shore of Lake Garda, near Desenzano del Garda and the picturesque medieval town of Sirmione. [...]
Thirty-five singers gathered for the first Choir in a week at Falmouth University from Monday 21 Friday 25 July 2025, led by Pip Wright, Kana Kernow, a singing leader, teacher and community musician based in West Cornwall and Jane Harris, Director of Songways, based in Bath. Singers came from across the UK... Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, [...]