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Author: Ian Lindsey

C'est La Vie! - Community Choir

New 12 week term starting 21st September 2022

We are delighted to be starting a full 12 week term on Wednesday 21st September, ending on 14th December with another performance. There will be a break for half term on 2nd November. Newcomers are welcome to come for a free taster on 21st or 28th September – if you decide to join in for…
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Summer weddings and singing in the park

In June we had the great honour of singing at the wedding of one of our choir members, Emma, to her fiancé Anthony. Rihanna’s song ‘Umbrella’ fitted the theme of the wedding, How Deep is your love featured again – as did Never Gonna Give you up – with wedding guests singing the chorus. It…
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Performing again! Concert for our friends and families in May 2022

On 25th May, as the last session of another 5 week block, we invited our friends and families to hear us sing the songs we had been working on. It was SO exciting to get into performance mode again, standing closer, facing the audience and taking the songs to a new level. You can click…
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Another 5 week term starting on 9th March 2022

After the success of our mini term before Christmas and since Wales has returned to Level 0, we had two lovely sessions of singing in February and now we are preparing for a new 5 week term, Wednesdays, 7.30 – 9pm from 9th March to 6th April. We will continue to meet in the wonderfully resonant Circus…
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A 5 week mini term of C’est La Vie! Community Choir

Wednesdays, 7.30-9pm, 3rd November – 1st December Since March 2020, we have Zoomed, we have sung familiar songs in the park, we had an outdoor workshop and now we are delighted to be offering 5 weeks of unaccompanied harmony singing in a new venue – the Circus Eruption building – a converted church with a beautifully resonant…
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Singing Workshop with Roxane Smith at Gower Heritage Centre on 11th September 2021

The tide was high, we had a lovely day, there may even have been a blue moon and we were so delighted to sing together because we hadn’t done that for the longest time! We are hugely grateful to Roxane Smith for leading a fantastic workshop and to everyone who came along for a wonderful…
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C’est La Zoom! in June

We’ve been having so much fun on Zoom we decided to launch a summer project – C’est La Zoom! in June! Instead of our usual repertoire of complex acapella arrangements of popular music, we are focusing on doing the things we have found to work best online: warm ups, simple songs and rounds, themes, games,…
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Sad News

We were particularly grateful to be meeting every week when we heard the devastating news that one of our much loved basses, Jeff Lewis, had died with Coronavirus on 15th April. When we met the following Wednesday, we were able to remember Jeff together, raising a glass to him and singing one of his favourites, Moon…
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C’est La Zoom! Finishing off our Spring term online

We were half way through our term when we could no longer meet in person due to the Corona virus but that didn’t stop us meeting, connecting and singing online every week! We warmed up our bodies and voices as usual and then enjoyed singing along to recordings of the songs we had been working…
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Change of Venue 13th November

On 13th November, our usual venue is not available so we will be using St James Church Parish Centre for one night only. St James’ Church, Walter Road, Swansea SA1 4QF The Parish Centre is the modern hall behind the old stone church – the main entrance is up a small flight of steps. There…
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