Sixty singers had an immensely enjoyable day with Apollo5 at St Swithin's Church in Bath on Saturday 13 October. The Apollo5 singers led us in excellent vocal warm-ups interspersed body percussion and rhythmic games to wake up voices, bodies and brains. Songs included a set of spirituals, a jazz standard, a quirky winter song and [...]
We were thrilled to host Windborne for the first time in Bath, fresh from their hugely successful US tour. Stunningly powerful vocal harmony... Windborne sets a new bar for folk harmony singing today Spectacularly good, utterly brilliant... The best musical discovery of the year More than 55 singers gathered from far and wide for the workshop [...]
The Dawn Chorus The Dawn Chorus is an exciting vocal ensemble directed by Sian Croose from Norwich and Brendan Taaffe from Vermont. The group is made up of 14 choir leaders and singers from England and Wales, including Jane Harris, Director of Songways. The group's debut tour in March 2018 featured a fabulous programme of traditional and new songs from the [...]
Sixty singers enjoyed a wonderful day at St Swithin's Church in Bath singing with Brendan Taaffe. Brendan is a singer, composer, workshop leader and multi-instrumentalist from Vermont, US and the founder of Turtle Dove Harmony. We enjoyed a wide range of songs including the haunting Appalachian song, Lord I don’t want to die in the [...]
Eighty singers enjoyed a fabulous workshop with Tony Backhouse, one of the leaders in the Australasian a cappella movement. Tony's own arrangements of classic gospel songs, Don't you want to join that number, Glad to be in the service and Nobody's Fault but mine were great to sing. Tony developed each song in its own [...]
Northern Harmony, the unique world-music vocal ensemble from Vermont in the US made their third visit to Bath, hosted by Songways, this time at the stunning St Swithin's Church. Larry Gordon and members of the group led a workshop for sixty singers, teaching a lively South African song, a rousing contemporary American shape-note piece and [...]
Singing workshop with Kathy Bullock from the US Eighty singers enjoyed a superb singing workshop with Dr Kathy Bullock from Kentucky, US, in the fine setting of St Luke's Church, Bath. Kathy led the singing with immense passion and warmth, from the wonderful St Luke's grand piano, and spoke eloquently, giving us an insight into the origins and context of the African-American [...]
Having discovered Brendan Taaffe‘s compositions through his vocal group Bright Wings Chorus, we have enjoyed excellent singing workshops with him several times in Bath & wonderful singing weeks in the South of France which he co-led with Jane Harris in 2016 and 2017. Seventy singers from a wide area gathered for Brendan's March workshop. Brendan [...]
A wonderful group of 80 singers gathered in the beautiful setting and acoustics of St Swithin's Church in Bath for our second workshop with Ali Burns, Song Maker and Workshop Leader from South West Scotland. It was a rewarding day with a rich selection of songs, including Ali's stirring new composition, In dangerous times: In dangerous [...]
