Total Choir Resources

In the last few months, we’ve all been on a journey with our choirs. From online rehearsals to being back in a room, then online again for some. It’s been a rollercoaster ride! As many of us look towards performing again, how we can ensure our singers sound great, feel ready and embrace the experience?

Amy Standridge is a choir leader and Total Choir Resources member who specialises in leading singing for people with dementia and their carers. She’s a self-confessed ‘brain nerd’ who joined us in this episode to talk about the importance of humour in our choir rehearsals.

Marie Benton is the founder and Chief Executive of The Choir With No Name, an organisation that supports homeless and marginalised people around the UK. Christine talked to her about community, connection and friendship through choirs.

We’re delighted to welcome on to the podcast our new team member Jane Reeves. Jane is a musician and choir leader and she’s full of amazing ideas. In this episode, we find out more about her musical background, her choir leading style and how she uses social media to stay organised and give her best to her choirs.

In this episode, we want to give you a glimpse behind the scenes at something our paid members get on the Total Choir Resources website.

The pandemic continues to take us all on a journey. Here in the UK we now have the opportunity to return to indoor rehearsals, something which we ourselves did last week. So how did it feel and how did it all go?

Eyleen Braaten is the Executive Director of the Giving Voice Initiative, a unique organisation that inspires and equips choirs to help people with Alzheimer’s and their care partners through the joy of singing. In this episode, Christine talks to Eyleen about building a movement that celebrates the unique power of singing together.

In our modern world we can connect in so many different ways, yet we hear about high levels of loneliness in our societies, particularly during the pandemic. How does loneliness affect people and how can being part of a choir change that?

Matt Ramsey is an American voice coach and founder of the Ramsey Voice Studio. In this episode, we discuss how individual voice tuition can benefit choral singers, how to find a contemporary sound when you’ve been classically trained, and just how many Mariah Careys is too many!

This special episode is a first for the Total Choir Resources podcast - a collaboration with the Music(Ed) Matters podcast, hosted by Dr Emily Williams Burch. We’re exploring the issue of collaboration by launching our own collaboration project.