Singing - Voices Unplugged

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“For thousands of years all over the world people have sung – to express joy, celebration and grief, to accompany work and devotion, to aid healing – without worrying about having a ‘good’ voice or ‘getting it right’. Song has been a part of life, a way of binding the community together. Singing and singing together is natural and open to all”.

Natural Voice Practitioners Network

 

VOICES UNPLUGGED with Jane Wells in Spalding, Lincolnshire

 

This is a friendly and well-established singing group that generally meets for 14 sessions during the autumn and winter terms on Saturday afternoons. At the end of this run of workshops the group is normally involved in contributing to an informal concert.  In March 2011 this was shared with the Peterborough Concert Band and took place in Holbeach Church to fundraise for a children's charity.

There is often a summer singing day with a guest teacher that is also an opportunity for new people to meet regular members of Voices Unplugged as well as to have a fun day out.

The group welcomes  old and new adult members – female and male - alike. Songs, in a mix of unaccompanied folk, pop and world music styles, are taught ’by ear’. So no need to read music - just a desire to flex those vocal cords and to gradually improve own singing as part of the group. It’s fun and the breathing is health-giving too!

The group is run by a small voluntary committee and sessions take place at either the Methodist Hall or the South Holland Centre in the centre of Spalding. Upcoming dates for spring 2012 are:

At Spalding Methodist Hall, Broad Street:

14th & 28th Jan; 25th Feb; 3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th March.

At South Holland Centre:

11th Feb

Saturdays 2.30-4.30pm

 £4 per session from the South Holland Centre box office 01775 764777

www.southhollandcentre.co.uk

 

AND, this being the term in which workshops lead to a public outing, there will be a concert on the evening of Saturday 24th March in Gosberton Church.  The group will share the performance with Lincolnshire's County Youth Jazz Band. More details to follow so watch this space!