Sing, Share, Support update – July 2017
Workshops
A lot has developed since our last Sing, Share, Support project update! Most importantly, we’ve decided to condense the workshops into two amazing months – January and February 2018. We think this works better for a number of reasons, so we’ve sent out ‘save the dates’ now and we hope your weekend is in the diary! We’ve also decided that, instead of the evening events, we are putting all our energy (and budget!) into making the daytime as brilliant as possible, with the possible addition of some extra activity on the Sunday (but we’re still working on that).
The dates are as follows:
Bristol – weekend of 6th January 2018
Edinburgh – weekend of 13th January 2018
Birmingham – weekend of 20th January 2018
London (central) – weekend of 27th January 2018
York – weekend of 3rd February 2018
Colchester – weekend of 10th February 2018
London (north) – weekend of 24th February 2018
We can reveal that our amazing venues are nearly all Hilton hotels, and in Colchester we will be in a beautiful, brand new art gallery and education space! We hope you enjoy the wonderful surroundings over the course of your workshop day.
New core repertoire – arrangements
In other Sing, Share, Support news, we’re really pleased to hear that the new core repertoire arrangements are starting to be performed by choirs. Fight Song has been a particular success and the choirs we’ve heard are sounding great. If you have any thoughts on what you’d like to see in future new repertoire, please do send them to songsuggestions@militarywiveschoirs.org.
New core repertoire – commissions
Even more exciting than our new arrangements, we have four new songs being written specially for us. With lyrics in response to your wonderful and moving WW1 survey responses, the compositions each take a different look at the theme of remembrance, looking forward to the centenary of the end of the First World War in 2018. We are so looking forward to sharing these songs with you soon, and thank you from us and from the composers for taking time and care with your survey responses.
Finally, none of this would be possible without our grant, so once again thank you to the Libor Fund for their support.
Julia x
Up next… Revealing your brilliant, dynamic and talented Workshop Leader!
