It's beginning to look a lot like ......
We're barely into November and already shops are full of Christmas decorations and playing cheesy Christmas songs. At Fenham Ensemble, we're well into rehearsals for two special events in our festive calendar: * * * We're really looking forward to our Advent concert at St James' and St Basil's church on Sunday 4th December, starting at 7.00pm. The programme will include the contemporary and atmospheric Advent Antiphons by Bob Chilcott, which is new to the choir and is especi
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Singer
During the horror that was Covid "Lockdown", when singing with others seemed to become one of the Deadly Sins, many of us found ourselves turning to "virtual singing" projects as a means of staying relatively sane and keeping the vocal cords exercised. Throughout that awful time, I wrote a blog so that I would always remember what it felt like to be confined and unable to perform to audiences or just sing with friends. The following is just an extract. In all of this we must
