From: Anna Tabbush
<anna_at_annatabbush_dot_com>
Date: 21 August 2012 15:10:03 GMT+01:00
Subject: SingFest 2012!
Hello friends,
If you?re able to give one last plug about SingFest to your choirs and
emailing lists I?d be eternally grateful!
Many thanks,
Anna
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Community Vox presents...
SingFest 2012!
1st & 2nd
September
Mellow Farm, Heath Hill, Dockenfield, Farnham, Surrey GU10 4HH
A weekend of singing in the beautiful Surrey countryside
***Book now at www.communityvox.org.uk***
Singing Workshops with?
Chris Rowbury
Katie Roberts
Lauren McCormick
Juliet Russell
Anna Tabbush
Plus?
Carnival Rhythms
workshop with Mike Simpson,
Family Craft workshop with Nonny Tabbush
Ceilidh with Holly Sheldrake and Mark
?Swerve? Weaver of the Climax Ceilidh Band and caller Carolyn Robson
Open Mic session with Jay Carter
And?
Camping, BBQ, local ale and cider, campfire, all in the beautiful
surroundings of Mellow Farm
SingFest is a festival where you make the music. Sing in glorious harmony
with 5 highly acclaimed singing workshop tutors. You don?t need to have any
singing experience, no need to read the dots or be part of a choir. All ages
and abilities are invited to raise their voices at our friendly, relaxed
singing festival.
This year?s tutors...
Juliet Russell of Vocal Explosion is a composer & vocal
facilitator specialising in world music, including repertoire from the deep
south & traditional gospel. Juliet has worked for over 15 years as an
international practitioner specialising in the voice. Her work has been heard
and sung by over 40,000 people in over 30 countries and her powerful voice
has been described as 'brilliantly haunting' by The Guardian.
<www.vocalexplosion.co.uk>
Chris Rowbury runs regular singing groups and community choirs as well
as working as a freelance workshop leader and performer. His speciality is
unaccompanied harmony singing from traditional cultures across the globe,
especially Africa and Eastern Europe. He will have you producing gorgeous
harmonies in a matter of minutes! <www.chrisrowbury.com>
Katie Roberts re-established Brighton Vox Community Choir in September
2009 and started Lewes Vox in 2011. Katie also leads workshops at Evolution
Arts <http://www.evolutionarts.org.uk/singing> in Brighton, has
led choirs at SingFest and runs children?s choirs in Brighton & Hove
called Small Voices <http://brightonvox.wordpress.com/little-voices/>
Lauren McCormick is an experienced teacher and workshop leader. She
has studied with singers such as Sandra Kerr, Chris Coe, John Kirkpatrick,
Joy Nicol and Carolyn Robson of The Voices Foundation. Lauren has performed
at festivals including Glastonbury, Towersey Village Festival, Brampton Live
and Sidmouth International Festival <www.laurenmccormick.co.uk>
Anna Tabbush is a singer, composer, and conductor and SingFest
festival director. She has taught on the past five SingFests and is back this
year to warm-up our voices each morning. Anna runs community choir Guildford
Vox and, among other projects, singing masterclasses, focussing on harmony
and performance technique. <www.annatabbush.com>
Mike Simpson, Musical Director of world music workshop company
Inspire-works, will be running this year's Carnival Rhythms workshop. After
graduating from the Guildhall School of Music & Drama in 1999 where he
studied percussion, African drumming, conducting and composition, he spent an
intensive year studying gamelan in Bali with Tjokorda Raka Suastika of Ubud
Royal family. For further information about Mike and Inspire-works please
visit <www.inspire-works.co.uk> or follow Mike on Twitter
_at_mikesimpson_dot_tv
Local artist Nonny Tabbush will be running a Family Craft workshop at
this year?s SingFest. Since graduating from her degree in Ceramics at the
University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, she has run family pottery and youth
craft workshops on subjects such as Monster Puppets, Shadow Puppets, Peg
Dollies and Bugs and Butterfly Mobiles. During the summer she leads workshops
in craft for 12 to 25 year olds through Shooting Roots at folk festivals
where they create large beasts and props for the theatre workshop?s
performance.
For bookings and more information about this year?s SingFest visit our
website: www.communityvox.org.uk
