- Songs we've already done at rehearsal:
- Livin' On A Prayer (x2)
- Never Gonna Not Dance Again (1 solo, 1 duet)
- Can't Stop The Feeling (x2)
- Songs we haven't started yet:
- Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys (x1). This will be our sop/alto split song.
- Hadestown Medley (1 trio)
- Wonder – Emeli Sandé (x1)
- All These Things That I've Done – The Killers (x1)
- Wayfaring Stranger – multiple artists (x1)
- Possibly: Today One Day – a bluesy call-and-response song with lyrics by Michael Rosen (x2)
Weekend Away Sign Up!
- Complete the spreadsheet here: https://tinyurl.com/singweekend2025
- Add your details to the Signups tab, this will calculate what you owe (excluding venue-led activities which we will collect later)
- Make your payment to the Sing! bank account – see below for details
- This secures your place – first come, first served
- Please put your name as the reference
- If you would love to come but the cost makes it difficult for you, please reach out to Jon or Claire privately
- The weekend only works if lots of you help out!
- Complete the Helping Out and Lift Shares tabs in the above spreadsheet
- If you are willing to lead a workshop/activity on the Saturday, please let Jon know
Roadworks heads up
Winter Concert now on YouTube
Concert date
[Sing! Rehearsals] Subs due this week!
Bank: The Co-operative Bank
Account name: Sing! Community Choir (leave the exclamation mark out if needed)
Sort Code: 08 / 92 / 99
Account Number: 65694684
Reference: <Your Name!>
Catching up on music
Now that we have all our new members for the term, we'd like to remind everyone of what we hope for from you in terms of learning music for the term. As we are a choir with a relaxed attendance policy (come when you can, but don't worry if you miss some weeks!), and a choir that learns by ear rather than from sheet music, we've learnt over the years that it can be a challenge to make progress with songs in our rehearsals. For those who've missed rehearsals it can be difficult to catch up, and for those who are there every week it can be frustrating to continually have to go over things again from the beginning!
We really want to make Sing! as enjoyable as possible for everyone. So, in each weekly email, we tell you which songs we'll be singing at the coming Thursday's rehearsal. If you're going to miss the rehearsal, we'd like to ask that you have a listen and practise the songs at home instead, using the resources on our Google drive here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1oWnyICGvNOpoPQ671RJtWrKU5anoZnxX
This link is included at the bottom of every weekly email we send (If you can’t find it straight away, it might be in an attachment).
We aim to share as much as we can in this folder. Due to permissions, we're not able to share full scores of all the songs, but we will share lyrics and audio recordings for everything where possible. Getting all these resources up takes a lot of time on our part, so please do use them! We're working our way through the songs for this term, so keep checking back 🙂
That's all for today, see you on Thursday!
Love, the Sing! Team. x
[Sing! Rehearsals] A brand new song!
[Sing! Rehearsals] It’s Sign Up Time!
- Part Teachers
- Conductors
- Instrument Players
[Sing! Rehearsals] Happy New Year from Sing!
- You're interested in conducting a song in our summer concert
- You play an instrument (especially piano, but we are very keen to hear from all instrumentalists) and can help out by playing in the Sing! band
- You would like to help out in rehearsals by teaching a part
If this sounds like you, please add your details to this spreadsheet.
(If you've volunteered in the past for part teaching, your name should already be on there – no problem if you've changed your mind, please just strike-through your name as per the instructions in the spreadsheet.)
[Sing! Rehearsals] Sing! Music suggestions for next term
Dear Sing! members,A huge thank you and congratulations to you all again for a fantastic Christmas concert! While you are hopefully enjoying the winter break, we are busy planning for the next term, which will begin on Thursday 9th January. We look forward to seeing you then!We would love to invite you to suggest a song which you think we should consider for our next concert in summer 2025. If you have an idea to share, please fill in this spreadsheet by Tuesday 31st December at the latest.Here are a few pointers on how you can best help us out:
We know you'll have lots of great ideas – but please submit only one suggestion per person (so be selective!) to avoid us being overwhelmed with too many ideas. It's really helpful if you can do as much of your own research as possible. If you can find a suitable arrangement, somewhere to buy it, and a video or recording of the arrangement being sung, this makes the music team's job much easier. Equally, if you have written your own arrangement that's great! This is a summer concert so summery suggestions are particularly welcome, and don't feel you have to limit yourself to SATB arrangements – we do often do split arrangements for TB / SA so these will also be considered.Looking forward to another fabulous year of music-making together 🙂Love,The Sing! Music Team