Our first Songways Tuscany singing week took place at La Torre alle Tolfe, a beautiful private villa set in a Tuscan garden amongst vineyards and olive groves on a hill-top near Siena. Jane Harris, Director of Songways, and John Harrison, composer and choir leader from Vermont, US led a wonderful group 35 singers from the UK, [...]
Our first Songways Donegal singing week in was held in July 2019 at the Song House, an inspirational retreat centre nestled in the foothills of Muckish mountain in the wilds of the Gaeltacht in the north west of Ireland. The group of 12 singers sang each morning led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways. Jane taught [...]
A wonderful group of 60 singers from across the UK gathered for the 2019 Sing the Cambridge Colleges, led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways, and Helen Chadwick, the renowned singer, song-writer and performance creator. We sang in four college chapels - Corpus Christi, Clare, Pembroke and St John's - enjoying the beauty and acoustics [...]
Fifty-five singers filled the delightful Northgate House hotel at Buckfast Abbey on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, next to the banks of the River Dart. It was a wonderful weekend of song in a beautiful setting: Cornish carols, sacred songs, folk songs from a wide range of traditions, hearty food and luxury accommodation. The weekend was led by Jane [...]
The 2018 Songways singing week on Lundy was a wonderful combination of rewarding singing sessions, time to savour the beauty and peace of the island, and sociable evenings. Led by Jane Harris, the group of 26 singers enjoyed a wide range of songs chosen to reflect the island setting. Songs included the vibrant shape note [...]
Fifty-five singers from the US, Canada and the UK enjoyed a fabulous week of harmony singing at a magnificent 15th-century abbey, a mile from Lake Garda in Northern Italy. Three tutors led the singing: John Harrison from Vermont, Jane Harris of Songways and Carlo Pezzoli from Milan. Between them they brought a rich variety of [...]
Fifty-five singers gathered from across the UK for Sing the Cambridge Colleges from Thursday 5 to Sunday 8 April 2018. We were based at Clare College, in the heart of Cambridge, singing in the Chapel, and visiting three other colleges to sing during the weekend: Emmanuel, Downing and St John’s. The singing was led by Jane Harris, [...]
In June 2017, we held our second singing week at La Maison Verte, a converted wine-maker’s mansion in Roujan, a village in the Languedoc region in the South of France. The singing was led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways, and Brendan Taaffe, composer, workshop leader and multi-instrumentalist from Vermont, US, and the week was [...]
Fifty-five singers gathered from across the UK and several parts of the US for Sing the Cambridge Colleges from Thursday 30 March to Sunday 2 April 2017. We were based at Corpus Christi College, in the heart of Cambridge, singing in the Chapel, and visiting four other colleges to sing during the weekend: Emmanuel, Queens’, Clare [...]
