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 [...]
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 the magnificent 15th-century Abbazia di Maguzzano, a mile from Lake Garda in Northern Italy led by John Harrison from Vermont, Jane Harris of Songways, Bath, and Carlo Pozzoli from Milan. Between them they brought a rich variety of [...]
