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Welcome to the website of Wild Harmony. The site is under perpetual development!

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.

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 Emily took a well earned sabbatical for Autumn 2018, Wild Harmony had the pleasure of being led by Fran André and enjoyed sharing the songs we learned with her at a 'Wild Harmony and Friends' event on 14 December, which also raised money for Integr8 UK and South Brent & District Caring.

To see the dates for the 2019 summer and autumn terms click on the DATES menu tab.

 

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Some other impending events which may be of interest to Wild Harmony devotees:

 

July 2019: The inaugural Ashburton Chamber Music Festival: A special type of Music festival where international musicians live in local homes and perform in non-standard concert venues in and around Ashburton and Broadhempston. The three main concerts feature string quartets by Mozart, Shostakovich, Dvorak and Bartok, plus myriad other fine music for various combinations of instruments. Plus there will be a performance of a new piece by composer, Tom Vignieri, for string quartet and saxophone commissioned specially for this festival. A group of superb classical musicians has been specially assembled, by David Yang from the USA, London and Belgium alongside a couple of more local players. The group comprises: Reinoud Ford (UK) (‘cello); Judith Hall (UK) (flute); Solenne Païdassi (France) (violin); Sara Trickey (UK) (violin); Tom Vignieri (UK/USA) (composer); David Yang (USA) (viola); and local musician, Andy Williamson (saxophone). There will be open rehearsals and ‘reading parties’ where the musicians will take requests from the audience and sight-read the pieces there and then with no rehearsal.

  • Saturday 20 July: Concert 1 at 7.30 in Ashburton Arts Centre: Music by Handel; JS Bach; Villa Lobos; McLosky; Mozart

  • Sunday 21 July: Panel Discussion and Introduction at 4pm, in Ashburton Arts Centre

  • Monday 22 July: Hausmusik 1: at 7pm in the Music Room, Great Ambrook

  • Tuesday 23 July: Family Concert: from 6.30 – 7.15pm at 4pm, in Ashburton Arts Centre

  • Wednesday 24 July: Hausmusik 2: at 7pm Bigadon Cottage, Nr Pennywell

  • Thursday 25 July: Concert 2 at 7.30 in Broadhempston Church: Shostakovich String quartet no 6; Cassado suite for solo cello; Dvorak String quartet in F Major ‘American’.

  • Friday 26 July: Hausmusik 3:at 7pm in at 25 East St, Ashburton, 7pm

  • Saturday 27 July: Concert 3 at 7.30 in Ashburton Arts Centre: JS Bach Partita for solo flute; Foote, ‘A Night Piece for flute and string quartet; Tom Vignieri, commission/world premiere string quartet and tenor saxophone; Bartok String quartet no 4.

Doors and bar open at 7pm for concerts beginning at 7.30pm. Advance tickets from www.wegottickets.com/ashburtonarts or in person from Rafikis, or Asburton Information Centre or Broadhempston Shop. Tickets for the three main concerts: £15 or £11 or £7 — you choose! Or buy one ticket for all three concerts: £40 or £30. FFI see: http://ashburtonarts.org.uk/acmf/.

 

 

 

Saturday 27 July 2019: Spooky Men’s Chorale  at 7.30pm in Totnes Civic Hall. “Rumbling like a broken down steam train full of flatulent rhinoceros, the Spooky Men’s Chorale are heading to Totnes! Come along and see our nice new collection of hats.” Amazing, original, highly and entertaining Australian men’s harmony choir on a UK tour led by composer, choir director and self-styled ‘Spookmeister’, Stephen Taberner. Their repertoire extends from moving Georgian harmonies and plainsong to contemporary songwriters and Monty Python humour. With special guests ‘Glorious Chorus’ led by Helen Yeomans. See https://spookymen.com/event/2-3/.