Don’t know what you started

A little singy doodle that popped out of my head this evening:
Don’t know what you started (MP3, 35 seconds ish, 912KB)

Silver is the daylight

That’s me, that is, with three of my singing buddies, performing at the 10th anniversary of Singing in the Round earlier this year. We sang this a little too fast, and I fluffed it in the third verse where I ran out of breath and had to miss out a word. Ooops.

Short

I wrote this song about 18 years ago. Now, thanks to Garageband, I can foist it on you:
Short song (mp3, 256KB, about 15 seconds long)

Silver is the daylight

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A traditional Jewish folk song (so I’m told), as arranged by [Eileen](http://www.eileenjohanna.com) and sung by her, Jane Harris, Martin Sandbrook and myself. We shall be performing it on stage next week.

And there’s another one

Sometimes, silly songs appear in my head - ping! - like that. Here’s this morning’s one, which arrived as I made a cup of tea:
And there’s another one (MP3, 512KB, about 20 seconds)

Forgotten carols with Ali Burns

Saturday was spent enjoying a day-long singing workshop - “Forgotten Carols”, lead by the inspiring and hugely talented Ali Burns. Many of my fellow singers were there, but it was quite different to our usual Thursday evening sessions.
Ali worked us very hard. We were learning our parts by ear, with Ali singing them briefly [...]

Amazing bass, how sweet the sound

The Boyan Ensemble of Kiev came to sing in our town last night, and Kate and I went along to listen to them.
The programme started with the most spine-tingling moment I’ve witnessed on stage for some time; a falsetto soloist’s voice pierced the semi-darkness (at this point the stage was lit by little more [...]

Barney singing “Land of the silver birch”

Land of the silver birch (Odeo browser stream thing, or MP3 download)
His nursery class did a project about North America, and they were taught this song.

The wonderful song

Northern Harmony, an extraordinary vocal group based in New England are touring the UK right now.
I attended a workshop of theirs last night, and a concert this evening. Wonderful, uplifting, inspiring singing in many different styles and traditions. You know these guys are good when they tackle some of that insanely complicated Balkan singing [...]

Barney’s song

bella-babab.mp3 (250KB mp3 file, about 14 seconds)
I recorded Barney singing as he sat on the toilet. Then I remixed the song in Audacity. It’s great when he’s in a singsong mood.