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Carolling with Candy and friends
Workshop 3
December 12 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
€10 – €25
With Candy Verney and Joseph Moras
Fed up with Covid? We can still sing together! Come join us to celebrate the festive season:
- Unusual and forgotten carols from around Ireland, the UK and other parts of the world
- Easy Winter rounds
- Learn one or two harmony parts
What songs will we sing?
We’ll explore some fascinating and unusual carols from diverse traditions, with some background history thrown in. In 17th Century UK, the puritans banned singing in churches, so the people went to sing in the pubs. This tradition still goes on to this day. Often using the words we know, the songs are wonderful fresh, fun to sing, very seasonal but not religious. There are also many beautiful medieval carols. Each session with include 2 unusual carols, one well known one, and winter rounds. Expect a wonderful festive feast!
Joseph first visited the Song House in 2017, and walked into our hearts. He has visited the Song House each year since, only prevented by Covid 19 from coming in 2020. He runs a singing school in Dubai, but his roots are in southern India. You will be transported to these lands when he introduces us to a carol in his native language- Konkani.
Workshop 1
Date: November 28th
Individual Workshop:
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Workshop 2
Date: December 5th
Individual Workshop:
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€25.00Read more
Workshop 3
Date: December 12th
Individual Workshop:
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€25.00Read more
Meet your hosts
Candy Verney
Candy’s passion is to inspire and create, through singing, a sense of harmony which gives an experience beyond the ordinary. She has been building singing communities in different ways all her working life. She created and developed 6 community choirs in and around Bath for 20 years. She runs Community Choir Leader Trainings, seeding singing groups throughout UK and Germany. She initiated and directed The Trowbridge Song project, celebrating diversity through sharing traditional music, in a rural town in Wiltshire. She is now director of The Song House, a retreat centre in Co. Donegal, NW Ireland, where she also runs singing holidays and trainings. Recently she has collaborated with Lindsey Williams and together they have written a series of songs for choirs that are a joy to sing, whose lyrics inspire and comment on modern life: Songs for Life
Joseph Moras
Joseph is a Voice professional with over 25 years of experience as a singer, teacher and a Choral Director. He studied Singing, Guitar and Indian classical music with professional teachers and got himself qualified with Associate and Licentiate Diploma from Trinity College London. In 2016 he received certification from Jonathan Goldman – an international authority on sound healing, on how to use human voice as a healing modality at the Healing Sounds Intensive in Colorado, USA.
Joseph runs an exclusive vocal training center – MELODIA VOICE STUDIO in Dubai, where he trains individuals and choirs. Having specialized in holistic voice training he conducts vocal toning sessions for healing and transformation.