Friday Larks

Why find a choir for your child to join?

Singing in a choir has so many benefits for children.

• They get in touch with their breathing, which is both calming and invigorating.
• Singing opens the natural resonances of their bodies – a great mood enhancer after a day behind a school-desk, or hours in front of a computer.
• They are also acquiring skills for life – how to listen to others while staying centred in themselves, how to be self- disciplined and to cooperate together..

What is the Friday Lark choir like?

• It’s a training, and it’s also a lot of fun!
• I mostly work ‘a cappella’, adding parts that I arrange myself as the children become more skilled.
• I use movement to help with breathing, and to express the sense of a song – and the children contribute great ideas for this.
• I also like to encourage stillness and listening, because music flows in and out of silence.
• I like to create atmosphere and context with vocal sound effects and with instruments, mine and the children’s.
• I have a great variety of songs up my sleeve – from traditional folksong to gospel and carnival songs: songs from Israel, Polynesia, Brazil, Ireland and many other countries.  I also teach rounds, echo songs, and play musical sound-games such as the Magical Singing Circle, which deepens children’s listening skills

Friday Larks is starting very soon, on Friday, March 4th at 4pm.

The session runs for an hour, and we will meet  every Friday in term-time

Venue: The Parish Centre, Christchurch Courtyard, St. Leonards. Christchurch Courtyard is by the church on London Road just south of Silchester Road.

Go to the back of the courtyard and enter the door on the left.

Friday Larks is supported by the Sussex Community Foundation.

Please look at bookings for all practical information about joining the choir.