Singing workshops

If you enjoy the thrilling sound of unaccompanied vocal harmonies then this is definitely the stuff for you!

• For promoters, our programmes can be tailored to your needs and we’re happy to discuss your requirements with you.
• As a participant, you get to sing unaccompanied vocal harmonies, blending your voice with ours.

The repertoire will be drawn from The Village Quire’s West Gallery and folk-harmony repertoire. West Gallery Music is the sort of music that you would have heard in the rural parish churches of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

It is vigorous, direct, no-nonsense stuff that is great fun to sing. Our folk-based repertoire is specially arranged for The Village Quire, but with more than a nod towards the singing of the Copper family and The Watersons. Our workshop will be suitable for those with previous experience of harmony singing, but the most important thing is enthusiasm and a willing voice.

• Notation available but also accessible for those who ‘sing by ear’
• Suitable for voices only (not instrumentalists).

Currently available programmes are:

• Singing the Year: We will sing our way through the calendar, from Christmas through Easter, Mayday, haymaking, harvest and ploughing with a song for every occasion.
• Saints and Sinners: Never mind Fifty Shades of Grey – it’s all black and white to us! We’ve got:
  • Songs, aye and catches, of goodies … and baddies,
  • Songs to be sung by both lassies … and laddies.
  • Songs for the naughty, songs for the nice,
  • Songs about virtue, songs about vice,
  • Songs about saints, songs about sinners,
  • Songs that are waiting to be sung by singers

Why not build your own workshop?