The Songways singing weekend at Halsway Manor was an absolute joy... a richly rewarding weekend of singing, dancing, fun and great company, with a Rolling Harmony concert and a full house on the Saturday night. Thank you so much to everyone who came... more than fifty singers from Bath, Wiltshire, Bristol, Devon, Cornwall, Dorset, Hampshire, [...]
The 2024 Lundy singing week was hugely enjoyed by 23 singers, led by Jane Harris - a week of singing, harmony, wild beauty, swimming, fun and friendship. Singers came from Somerset, Wiltshire, Devon, Cornwall, Bristol, Cambridge, Sussex, London... and Toronto! Jane taught a wide range of harmony songs reflecting the beauty of the natural world [...]
Sixty singers from the UK and US gathered for Sing the Cambridge Colleges 2024, to sing in three of the Cambridge college chapels led by Jane Harris and John Harrison from Vermont, US. Jane and John were delighted to work together again following their successful collaborations in Cambridge and Italy in previous years. Comments from [...]
Fifty-five singers took part in our first Songways singing weekend at Halsway Manor, the National Centre for Folk Arts, nestled at the foot of the Quantock Hills in Somerset (an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). It was a joyous and hugely rewarding experience, filled with singing, live music, dancing, fun and friendship. The weekend was led [...]
Fifty-five singers from the UK, Ireland, US and Canada gathered for a week of harmony singing in a magnificent 15th-century abbey within walking distance of Lake Garda in Italy, 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 [...]
Sixty singers from the UK, US and Canada gathered for Sing the Cambridge Colleges 2023, to sing in four of the Cambridge college chapels led by Jane Harris and John Harrison from Vermont, US. Jane and John were delighted to work together again following their successful collaborations in Cambridge and Italy in previous years. Comments [...]
Fifty singers gathered for the Buckfast Abbey Singing Weekend on the edge of Dartmoor National Park, next to the banks of the River Dart led by Jane Harris, Director of Songways, and Pip Wright, Kana Kernow. We enjoyed a wonderful weekend of song: Cornish carols, sacred songs, harmony songs from a wide range of traditions, with [...]
The 2022 Lundy singing week was hugely enjoyed by 24 singers, led by Jane Harris - a week of singing, harmony, sun, swimming, fun and friendship. Jane taught several of her own songs written on Lundy, including First Light (composed on the island in 2020 and being sung there for the first time). We also [...]
Forty singers gathered for a wonderful weekend singing in the stunning Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College, Cuddesdon, near Oxford, led by Jane Harris and Clara Atkins. Jane explains the background: The chapel is an extraordinary space, wonderfully resonant and filled with natural light filtering in from above. I first sang there about five years ago with a [...]