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Welcome to our Spring Newsletter. Despite the world as it is right now, we have loads of good news! After a slow pick-up post Pandemic, our Artists and Young Artists have been busier than ever so far this year working across our projects, including Singing for Mental Health and Well Being funded by LBN, Festival of Voices, Cambridge funded by UCPS and the Massed Primary and Secondary Singing Programmes in Lambeth, funded through Lambeth Music Service and Southbank Centre.
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We are proud of the opportunities we bring to professional Artists building their portfolio’s; to Young Artists developing skills and confidence to lead, and to teachers deepening and widening their choral teaching practice. We know the empowering effects of singing for children and adults and of seeing leaders who represent their diverse communities. Here’s a 2 minute film to give you a tiny flavour of our work since January.
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This year we were keen to offer development to our teams in Trauma Informed Practice to help them support workshop participants who may be suffering from mental health issues due to displacement or other challenges. We are forming a partnership with Musicians Without Borders in the hope of offering this training on an annual basis.
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We hope you enjoy reading the news items below. Thank you as ever for your kind support and encouragement for our work. Wishing you all a Happy Easter time, Ramadan, or whatever you may be celebrating!
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From the Living Song Team!
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Festival Of Voices
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What a brilliant day at West Road Concert Hall. Year 5 and 6 from UCPS excelled in their singing for this event. Expressive, moving, poignant, dynamic, musical and thoroughly engaging for the whole hour long concert. Living Song worked in partnership with the Head Teacher to ensure the highest standard of band accompaniment and sound for the children to experience. …
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Lambeth Primary Sing, RFH, Southbank Centre.
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We are delighted and proud to continue our partnership with Lambeth Music Service, The Primary Singing Events at Southbank Centre in March were a fantastic success. Teachers and parents were thrilled about the quality of singing achieved, the choice of repertoire and the diversity of the team leading. Thanks to the vision of Bryan Welton, the Director of LMS, Living Song was invited to collaborate …
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Singing For Mental Health And Well Being Workshops
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Following on from the two day training with Daren from Musicians Without Borders we ran 4 workshops across Newham Libraries and Community Groups. Chante Faucher led an all comers workshop at Stratford Library, assisted by 2 young artists. Brendon led a breathing and stretching warm up to help participants to come into the space and prepare their bodies for some gentle singing. Charlie supported the lead artist, Chante by accompanying …
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Choral Music Experience @ The Lab, E20
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CME, London 2023 is a cornerstone of professional development in Living Song’s calendar. This year once again, the faculty took us on a journey of personal and professional development like no other. David Brunner our guest conductor and composer from the USA worked along side Mandy Miller to immerse us in best practice through a broad range of repertoire, score study, …
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An Evening With Stratford East Singers
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This was once again a fantastic evening with SES, celebrating 10 years since the choir began at Stratford East. Our associate artist, Byron Gold programmed a compelling, moving and dynamic evening of music, which had the audience on their feet by half way through. The energy, harmonies and solo’s of the singers could not help to lift spirits far and …
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