Sing the Cambridge Colleges | Thursday 11 March – Saturday 13 April 2024 – review

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 [...]

2024-04-14T15:57:29+00:00April 14th, 2024|News, Previous Singing Retreats, Previous Singing Weekends|

Halsway Manor Singing weekend | Friday 20 – Sunday 22 October – review

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 [...]

2023-10-24T16:16:36+00:00October 24th, 2023|News, Previous Singing Retreats, Previous Singing Weekends|

Sing the Cambridge Colleges | Thursday 30 March – Saturday 1 April 2023 – review

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 [...]

2023-04-13T18:12:49+00:00April 13th, 2023|News, Previous Singing Retreats, Previous Singing Weekends|

Buckfast Abbey Singing weekend 11 – 13 November – Review

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 [...]

2022-11-15T12:38:54+00:00August 9th, 2022|Previous Singing Retreats, Previous Singing Weekends|

Lift up your Voice | Ammerdown, Somerset | October 2019 – review

Singers came from far and wide for our first singing weekend at the beautiful Ammerdown Centre led by Director of Songways, Jane Harris. We enjoyed a wide range of songs including evocative English folksongs, a heart-warming folksong from Ireland, songs to mark the changing seasons, a powerful South African song of peace, a lively Appalachian mountain [...]

2019-10-24T11:27:20+00:00October 23rd, 2019|News, Previous Singing Weekends|

Sing the Cambridge Colleges 4 – 6 April 2019 – review

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 [...]

2019-04-08T17:31:46+00:00April 8th, 2019|News, Previous Singing Retreats, Previous Singing Weekends|

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