Our Singing Thing: lullabye

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Friday, 23 September 2011

Lovely lullabies

Coorie Doon is beautiful

Irene Watt is an ethnomusicologist in Scotland who teaches lullabies to mothers and all their babies fall asleep in the classes.

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Finding new ways to be a singer

I've been singing all my life and performing since I was 11, with some professional work with Honeyroot and Oi Va Voi.

I've never loved anything more than camp fire jam sessions, mess-around vocal jamming in groups, and when I get lost in playing around musically on my own.

So how do you take away the safe casing of carefully rehearsed performance and offer instead a more raw kind of music? Can the quality of the campfire be brought into performance, or do I reject performance to a passive audience? How do you be a singer today if you want to keep music for pleasure not commerce, you no longer want to work within the limits of composition but you want your singing to be alive and part of something?

This is what I'm exploring.

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Friday, 23 September 2011

Lovely lullabies

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