Shirley Community Choir (yet to be named, we’re working on it!)
Tuesday evenings, 7:30-9:30pm, at the Scout Hall in Harrison St (off Flockton St).
World Spiritual genre. Open membership, attendance by Koha. The only requirement for membership is a desire to sing!
No musical experience necessary. Opportunities for vocal development, including improvisation. ALL ages very welcome.
Please phone Christopher on 386 1025, or text 027 568 5515, or email: christopher_musgrave@yahoo.co.nz
A new community choir has started in the St Albans/Shirley area.
We’re having sessions on Tuesday evenings, 7:30-9:30pm, at the Scout Hall in Harrison St (off Flockton St).
We’re singing World Spiritual songs, which is my personal favourite .
I
totally love it that, with plenty of different world cultures to choose
from, there’s plenty of styles/feels to choose from too, like funky
African, lilting Celtic, uplifting African-American Gospel, dramatic
Georgian, Eastern-European songs with their characteristic crunchy
harmonies, sweet sweet Hebrew songs… even the occasional funny one!
totally love it that, with plenty of different world cultures to choose
from, there’s plenty of styles/feels to choose from too, like funky
African, lilting Celtic, uplifting African-American Gospel, dramatic
Georgian, Eastern-European songs with their characteristic crunchy
harmonies, sweet sweet Hebrew songs… even the occasional funny one!
My vision is to be part of a group that is consciously and pro-actively inclusive.
SO: We are open to all who want to sing, or even come and listen, and there is no membership fee, simply a request for Koha.
As
well as being inclusive in the general sense, I also specifically aim
to be pro-actively inclusive of all people with any kind of beliefs
about spirituality. I believe there is a need for this kind of
interpersonal connection in community, within our wider community.
well as being inclusive in the general sense, I also specifically aim
to be pro-actively inclusive of all people with any kind of beliefs
about spirituality. I believe there is a need for this kind of
interpersonal connection in community, within our wider community.
It
seems to me there are many people searching all the time for places to
experience belonging, and more than that, a sense of oneness.
seems to me there are many people searching all the time for places to
experience belonging, and more than that, a sense of oneness.
How many of us used to “go to church mainly for the singing”?!
I
love singing songs (in a group especially) that have a spiritual
meaning or message, even if simply in the broadest sense. And I
particularly love seeing what kinds of group dynamics it creates, when
we sing together in this way. It creates connection/closeness so fast,
and easily.
love singing songs (in a group especially) that have a spiritual
meaning or message, even if simply in the broadest sense. And I
particularly love seeing what kinds of group dynamics it creates, when
we sing together in this way. It creates connection/closeness so fast,
and easily.
My
hope is that people will be drawn to the group who enjoy exploring and
expanding on our understanding/experience of what “spirituality” means
to each of us, in this context of singing for the joy of it.
hope is that people will be drawn to the group who enjoy exploring and
expanding on our understanding/experience of what “spirituality” means
to each of us, in this context of singing for the joy of it.
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My phone numbers are
386 1025
027 568 5515