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Welcome to the website of Wild Harmony. The site is under perpetual development!
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WILD HARMONY is a small, friendly South Brent based community choir, which meets regularly to share the fun of singing together and learning songs and harmonies from around the world. Emily Roblyn leads Wild Harmony. Emily grew up in Canada and was encouraged to harmonise and perform from an early age so that singing is so much a part of her she doesn’t ever remember being without it. She is passionate about sharing her love of people coming together to sing and the magic of harmony. To sign up for Emily’s own mailing list click here. |
The SONGS part of the website includes words of all songs we sing or have sung with Emily and collections of some earlier Wild Harmony leaders. This section been temporarily disabled to enable us to deal more formally with copyright issues and may be returned in due course with members access and a password.
[Until then you will not be able to use the following guidance:
To find a song, click on the ‘Songs’ tab along the top, then look at the list of songs and categories.
Most songs also have an attachment in Word with the lyrics for printing out if you wish.
Where we have recorded Wild Harmony singing the song either in performance or rehearsal that is also on the webpage - click on the music attachment
Wherever possible I have acknowledged songwriters and arrangers. My apologies for any omissions or errors.]
While meeting in person to sing together remains uncertain, ‘Virtual Wild Harmony’, has been continuing via Zoom, with sessions from 7.30-9pm on Fridays.
You can access the Zoom sessions via this link: https://zoom.us/j/3537375713; or if you are accessing via your own Zoom App then use: Meeting ID: 353-737-5713; Password: 696715. There are two payment rates – ‘Regular singers’: £30 for the term and ‘Drop-in’ singers: £6 per session. Please pay Emily via her PayPal link: www.paypal.com/paypalme/emroblyn.
We are all desperate to sing together, and are keeping an eye on the possibility of socially distanced but in person singing sessions with Emily, in a large space either outside or somewhere such as a village hall. However, this will depend on the coronavirus situation nearer the time and the ability to make the venue 'COVID safe'. We are now on our Easter break after which we will announce arrangements for the summer when the options are clearer.
John Rawlinson
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SOME OTHER EVENTS WHICH MAY BE OF INTEREST TO WILD HARMONY DEVOTEES
Gospel, Spirituals and West & South African song!
Sundays - 18 & 25 April; 2 May 2021: Gospel, Spirituals and West & South African song! More joyful, singing with world renowned US Gospel expert and teacher, Dr Kathy Bullock and UK Gospel Choir leader, Fran André. Learn a range of songs varying in difficulty level from fairly easy to a bit more challenging. These songs will be pitched for the community choir singer, so there will be no fiendishly difficult songs to learn - don't worry! You will have two sessions with your individual voice section (soprano, alto, tenor or bass), one taught by Kathy, one taught by Fran). You will get the chance to learn your parts fully, and have opportunity to ask to go over bits and ask questions. You will be sent your parts to listen to / practise at home as mp3 audio files. Then during the final session everyone will come together and we will sing all of the songs as mini-performances. We will also sing some short Gospel songs with Kathy which we will learn in the moment, and you will get some very valuable tips on how to sing this music authentically and in the style. The sing throughs from this session will be recorded and you will get a copy of the recordings sent to you as a memento! It is all very relaxed and no one will know whether you get your part fully right or not, this is all about your enjoyment. All three sessions include mp3 part recordings and videos of song performances to practice against. Early bird booking price is £35. Book your place via https://singwithsoul.eventbrite.com. You also will get the opportunity to purchase the full resource packs (with mp3 audios of each voice part) for all the songs. This is ideal for choir leaders wanting to teach the songs to their choirs - £15 for 6 songs (50% of profits from this will go to Resourcing Racial Justice, UK Charity). We are setting this price level reasonably high as we want to make sure each song and the culture that this music came from is being fully honoured (by donations to the charity), and the cost of producing the recordings is also covered.
Summary of timings / dates for each section:
18 April - Sopranos & Altos 6.30-7.30pm; Tenors & Basses 7.45-8.45pm
25 April - Sopranos & Altos 6.30-7.30pm Tenors & Basses 7.45-8.45pm
2 May - all voice parts together 7.30-9pm.
Kathy and Fran very much hope you will join them for some more joyous singing together and celebration of these songs of African origin!
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