We had a beautiful day and a great weather on the Ham House Heritage2Health day last 28th June. It consisted on a shared activity with public, student nurses and various health and well-being organisations, mostly local to Kingston, who gather to share a day of activities and networking. Heritage2Health is an organisation, but also a READ MORE
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PROTESTING CAN BE GOOD FOR YOUR HEALTH
I am having a great experience teaching a monographic of six workshops on Protest Songs at the Brompton Cemetery. This is a colaboration between the Brompton Cemetery, Radio Days Music and Sing to Live, Live to Sing (RBKC), funded by Heritage Lottery Fund, to Commemorate 100 years since women got the vote in UK. Having READ MORE
Ancestral reason for not shutting up anyone
1.8 million years ago, the homo Ergaster started to walk in two legs as us, and that posture gave our ancestors the possibility of a bigger brain and a lower position of the larynx, that favoured musical and linguistically ability. Singing is as old as communication, as old as the origin of speaking is, and READ MORE
MUSIC, SINGING AND MENTAL HEALTH, WITH NACHO DIAZ
Nacho Diaz is a sociologist and PhD student at the Centre for Narrative Research, CNR, University of East London under the direction of Maria Tamboukou. His professional life has taken place in different psychiatric hospitals and prisons, in the field of reinsertion. He has also worked with different NGOs. So I am spending this beautiful READ MORE
BE YOUR OWN KIND OF LEADER
Actually, the tittle says it all so I won’t need to extend myself too much this time. What I want to mean is that we all, as musicians, as choir leaders or directors, want to do our best, to know more, to get better ideas, to produce more engaging rehearsals. Great. What perhaps is not READ MORE
WW1 LIVE MUSIC AT OUR FUNDRAISING CONCERT BY RADIO DAYS AND THE BLOOMSBURY CHOIR
Christmas Truce: A Concert for Peace Singing4Health CIC is organizing a fundraising Christmas concert in aid of the Bloomsbury Patient Network. All proceeds from the event will be used to fund the provision of music activities of The Bloomsbury Choir. With specialist in the music of this era, Radio Days Music. The concert is a READ MORE
ON BEAUTY AND CREATIVITY, WITH MENNO KUIJPER
I am interviewing Menno Kuijper, a great cabaret artist based in London, a very clear mind and a lovely person. I wanted to know more about his views on Cabaret and the way that music and song writing has become an important part not only of his career but also of his personal development. Our READ MORE
INTO THE SMALL — CONTRIBUTING TO MAKING A STRONG COMMUNITY
When you already belong to a community, have you ever thought that perhaps you know everyone you need to know and there is no need to know more people? Or you believe you need to meet many more people in order to have access to either fun activities, network more, have more friends or access READ MORE
FOOD, VOICE AND RISKS…WITH MOISES PÉREZ
Moisés Pérez is one of the founders of MuOm, the Barcelona overtone singing choir, very unique and beautiful music project that visited London last 25th and 26th July. They use techniques such as “overtone singing” and “throat singing”, that come from Tuva, Mongolia, Tibet and also the Xhosa people in South Africa. Moisés is the READ MORE
MuOM, BARCELONA HARMONIC SINGING CHOIR
And now for something completely different, I want to speak about harmonic singing. Also known as overtone singing, is a type of singing in which the singer manipulates the sounds created as air travels from the lungs, passing the vocal folds and out of the lips to produce a melody. This way the singer can READ MORE