What is it about running a choir that keeps me engaged and interested?

Music is my life. That may sound pretty boring, and on paper, it looks kind of boring to me too. However, once you start to look at the way music impacts on your life in different, and frequently, unnoticed ways, actually, life would be pretty empty without music. Now, things would be a little over the top, perhaps, if everything we did had its own film score or soundtrack, as in a movie, but just think how your day pans out and where music plays a part. For me, it's all day

So a few people have asked me how they can improve their singing. It is a jolly good question, and actually not one that I can really tackle in a blog post as it is really a very personal thing and depends on a lot of different factors. There are a few basics however that you can consider that don't even necessarily involve singing! "You are what you eat". This old nugget does hold water (pun intended) and actually, you will already know that what you take in to your body wil

OK, so my workday did not start well. Stressed with all kinds of things running round my head. Trying to get into an essay which is due soon and failing at that dismally. Getting cross with myself for not having better time management skills...oh hang on...I went on holiday...excuse? Anyway, too much to do and too little time. Things got worse and worse, I got more and more worked up and I ended up with a serious knot in my stomach, a head ache and I just wanted to jump on a