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  • › Newport Folk and Fiddle Club: Great Online Program

    29/Apr/2020
    NEWPORT FIDDLE & FOLK CLUB has a really active on-line calendar – see https://www.nffc.org.au/. Celtic, Blues, Beginners, Choir etc. Also, checkout their Youtube clip of Bush Orchestra rehearsing. Pure fun.  All NFCC online events are free of charge, however if you are joining in one of their events, please support the…
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  • › Remote Learning Resources – Free Lessons and Ideas

    21/Apr/2020
    In this episode [invaluable for Music teachers!], Mark Leehy of Bushfire Press and Music Room previews his free remote learning lessons and plays a sample from the Listening Room remote learning podcast for children and parents at www.TheListeningRoom.net. Kevin O’Mara then joins him in an improvisation of hand-washing songs and…
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  • › Bangalore Chorus online

    21/Apr/2020
    The Bangalore Chorus have 135 members aged from 4 to 70. Here they are singing Peace to all the World's Family via their mobile phones in their own homes, so you can sing along if you like at https://naturalvoice.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=0cf015fbe8421b8ebcf941b65&id=d1db67f69d&e=fd60887114.
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  • › Vocal OnLine - Danish online choir

    21/Apr/2020
    The Danish choir Vocal Line invited their Facebook followers to join their virtual choir "Vocal OnLine", with the aim of creating something with people in different countries who are all experiencing the current pandemic. They were hoping for maybe 100 participants, but 5 days later they had a huge virtual…
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  • › I Lost My Gig

    02/Apr/2020
    If you've lost work due to Covid-19, use this site to report how you've been impacted. Event cancellations and postponements across Australia and New Zealand are having unprecedented impacts on the creative industries and getting accurate figures is vital to this data being used to help vulnerable people.  I Lost…
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  • › Virtual choir practice: ‘Singing in dark times we can turn our voices to the light’

    01/Apr/2020
    From my bed, propped up with cushions and with my fancy headphones on, I sip gin and watch the screen as I sing an arrangement of Ball Park Music’s Surrender.“It’s OK, it’s alright, true terror in the middle of the night,…
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  • › Maurie Richardson’s Rich Resource Share: Part 1

    01/Apr/2020
    A big shout out and a gazillion thanks to CMVic member, Maurie Richardson, for sharing his thoughts on the best approach to online music making and for this fabulous list of resources which he's taken time to compile and share. This is just part 1; stay tuned for part 2! Although…
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  • › What to do when you can’t sing in the choir

    01/Apr/2020
    1. revise your parts - If you’ve ever been in a choir you probably have loads of teaching resources and choir recordings. This is a great opportunity to go back over the repertoire, check that you’ve really nailed your part, and sing against the other parts or whole choir recording. 2.…
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  • › Bizarre things you never knew about your own voice

    31/Mar/2020
    "Your larynx is much more than just a noise-making organ. Check out these 13 fun facts about the voice box and what your tone gives away about you."  Airplane chatter can cause damage - If you talk or sing for a living, you may want to avoid chatting on flights…
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  • › ‘Lockdown’ a poem by Richard Hendrick

    31/Mar/2020
    Lockdown Yes there is fear. Yes there is isolation. Yes there is panic buying. Yes there is sickness. Yes there is even death. But, They say that in Wuhan after so many years…
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