Category: choir
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My last One Sound
Last Saturday… The curtains open. I’m ready to sing and dance my heart out. I feel rough but I couldn’t miss this even if I was dying. I’m standing next to the lovely Marie who’s wearing a beautiful bright yellow dress and gorgeous colourful earrings. It’s her first ever One Sound, I can’t stop thinking…
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Blogmas day 18- the Last 2018 SSU staff choir performance
One of the best decisions I ever made, at an unknowingly *pivotal moment in my life was to join the Lunchtime Glee club, a group of colleagues coming together once a week for an hour of laughter and singing, the best remedy to uplift us, especially after a long, busy day at work. Five year…
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Blogmas day 18- Singing and homemade Baileys
Today was a different Monday. It went so fast I didn’t even realise. In the afternoon the Staff Choir sang at the Vice Chancellor’s Staff Christmas reception. It was the first time we performed without Dan and we were worried we might mess up, forget the lyrics, sing the wrong parts, we feared for the…
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One Sound, one year later…
I woke up today feeling incredibly emotional after last night’s show. It was a special one. Two weeks ago I didn’t even think I could do this year’s One Sound show. I haven’t been to SingNow for months and I missed many rehearsals of the workplace choir, because last time I went, although I love…
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My choir family…
I am not a singer. I have an OK, average voice. I love singing, with my family and friends. I sing at work, in the bathroom. I can’t imagine my life without music. But I hadn’t sang in a choir since high school! A couple of years ago I joined our workplace choir, after a…
Lessons I learned after I turned 30 