Release Date: 1st December 2024  Transcript 

In this episode, Chris Rowbury shares the magic that happens when you get a bunch of people in a room to sing in harmony together. Chris first discovered the joys of unaccompanied harmony singing when working as a theatre performer in Cardiff. The company devised their own shows and often included amazing songs from Eastern Europe and beyond. You can't sing harmony on your own, so Chris looked around for a group to join. There weren't any, so he set his own choir up and hasn't looked back since! www.chrisrowbury.com

Featuring Rufus the Dog and a Halloween apparition :)

Release Date: 31st October 2024 - Read the Transcript

For this episode, I'm joined by Cheltenham-based singer/songwriter D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan enjoyed a lot of success last season when his Christmas song Merry Christmas Darling achieved 80k streams on Spotify and was featured on ITV News and BBC Radio. D'Artagnan will be joining Katie Rose at the Winter Sparkle Concert on December 6th in Crystal Palace. In his spare time, D'Artagnan likes to go rollerblading with his Tibetan Terrier dog Rufus. Merry Christmas Darling has recently been remastered and the new version will be out at the end of November https://www.dartagnanmusic.com/ 

🌹 🎶 Book Your Winter Sparkle Tickets Here: https://www.therosewindow.org/events-contactRelease Date: 31st October 2024 - Read the Transcript

For this episode, I'm joined by Cheltenham-based singer/songwriter D'Artagnan. D'Artagnan enjoyed a lot of success last season when his Christmas song Merry Christmas Darling achieved 80k streams on Spotify and was featured on ITV News and BBC Radio. D'Artagnan will be joining Katie Rose at the Winter Sparkle Concert on December 6th in Crystal Palace. In his spare time, D'Artagnan likes to go rollerblading with his Tibetan Terrier dog Rufus. Merry Christmas Darling has recently been remastered and the new version will be out at the end of November https://www.dartagnanmusic.com/ 

🌹 🎶 Book Your Winter Sparkle Tickets Here: https://www.therosewindow.org/events-contact

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 20 - Do The Thing! 

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Vocal Revolution Podcast is back with a little introductory episode about the transformative power of Doing the Thing that we love and long to do - whether that's singing solo, giving a speech or writing a book, plus 3 strategies to help us actually get on and do the thing... 

Coming Up: I'll be interviewing pioneering vocal revolutionaries who are doing their thing... watch this space :)

A Podcast Ramble on the many magical ways our voices can emerge, bud and blossom this Spring.

Reflections on how our voices can emerge from trauma and help build a more empathic, creative world, drawing on the wisdom of Nelson Mandela and Psychiatrist Boris Cyrulnikon.

A little reminder and an invitation to romance our voices as the beautiful special things they are this February.  

Poems featured in this episode include Homer's Invocation to the Muse in The Odyssey and Joyce Chen The Muse.  

Music - Rose Chant & Red Red Rose, an arrangement of the traditional scots folk song - both by me

The crows - by themselves!

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Podcast Ep 19 - Freeing Your Voice with Michael Harper 

🌹 🎶 "Be yourself child" - singer, vocal consultant and singing teacher Michael Harper reflects on how we can free our voices and take a stand for freedom in the face of oppression. 

🌹 🎶 Michael Harper is a singer, vocal consultant and singing teacher. He has sung opera, oratorio, and new music in the US, Europe and in China, premiering new works in the UK, Venice, and Geneva. 
Michael was one of six vocal coaches on the recent Sky Arts series Anyone Can Sing. As a vocal consultant, he has given master classes, workshops and lectures for the Centre for Performance Research (Aberystwyth), the Asolo Song Festival and Institute for Song Interpretation (Italy), The National Foundation for Youth Music, Sing Up, The Sage Gateshead (Newcastle), Jackdaws Music Education Trust (Somerset), Guildhall School of Music and Drama, The Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), the National Opera Studio (London), the Royal Northern College of Music (Manchester), various US universities including Westminster Choir College (Princeton) where he worked with the Grammy- nominate Williamson Voices, and the British Library, where he held an Edison Fellowship. 
He has curated recitals for the London Song Festival and for Steinway Hall on the songs of African American and Black British Composers, and directed a tribute to the Fisk Jubilee Singers as part of the Hull City of Culture 2016. 
He teaches singing at the Royal Northern School of Music in Manchester and has private studios in London, Bristol, and at the den Norske Opera in Oslo. He is trustee of the Saga Trust (Edison Fellowship, British Library) and a Patron for the National Opera Studio’s Diverse Voices programme. 
http://www.michael-harper.net/

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 18 - Finding Your Writer's Voice with Anna Sayburn Lane
Release Date: April 1st 2022 

🌹 🎶 Keeping building on it and have faith - novelist, short story writer and journalist Anna Sayburn Lane reflects on the journey of finding a voice as a writer and shares tips to help build a writing practice.

🌹 🎶 Anna Sayburn Lane is a novelist, short story writer and journalist. Her mystery thriller novels explore the rich literary landscapes of London and Kent.   Anna studied English and History at University, then began her career as a reporter on a South London newspaper, later moving into medical journalism.  She has published three novels which weave literary history into contemporary thrillers, featuring her literary sleuth Helen Oddfellow, a walking tour guide and academic, who lives in Deptford.   The first, Unlawful Things (2018), based around the death of Christopher Marlowe, was shortlisted for the Virago New Crime Writer Award and picked as a Crime in the Spotlight Choice by the Bloody Scotland Crime Writing Festival. Her second novel, The Peacock Room (2020), takes inspiration from the London poet and artist William Blake, while the third, The Crimson Thread (2021), returns to Christopher Marlowe and is set in Canterbury, the city of his birth.  In a case of life imitating art, Anna has now given a guided walk for the Deptford Literature Festival about literary figures in Deptford, and recently started teaching Creative Writing workshops.  Anna lives between South London and the Kent coast.  https://annasayburnlane.com/

🌹 🎶Vocal Revolution Ep 17 - The Embodied Voice with Randolph Matthews 
Release Date: March 4th 2022 

🌹 🎶 The voice is the healing tool - composer, performance artist and voice facilitator Randolph Matthews shares a wealth of wisdom about how we can claim the joy, beauty and power of embodied vocal expression. 

🌹 🎶 Randolph Matthews is a composer, performance artist and voice facilitator. His musical career spans over 2 decades and his expertise saunters through jazz, blues and contemporary dance. Randolph performs and creates work nationally and internationally with collaborations across interdisciplinary art forms. He has performed with artists such as Herbie Hancock, Grace Jones and graced Buckingham Palace for the Queen. 
Randolph studied voice at Goldsmiths College London in 2000 combining Alexander Technique and vocal mechanics. He has since run workshops in Europe and USA on voice and movement helping people connect with embodied sound, breath and song. 
Randolph has performed at Sadlers Wells with Boy Breaking Glass inspired by the poem by Gwendolyn Brooks and is currently composing and producing music for the National Youth Dance Company collaborating with international choreographer Alesandra Seutin. - https://www.randolphmatthews.co.uk/

🌹 🎶Vocal Revolution Episode 16 - Intimacy on Set with Ita O'Brien 
Release Date: Feb 11th 2022  

🌹 🎶 Holding a safe space - pioneering Intimacy Coordinator, Ita O'Brien shares how we support safe, healthy expression around intimate content on TV, film and theatre and how this relates to issues around sexual expression in wider society. 

Content/ Trigger Warning: this episode discusses sexuality, intimacy, abuse and issues around consent. If you feel you need support around your experience of these issues, there are people willing to help and listen. Please click here for a list of resources. 

🌹 🎶 Ita O'Brien is the UK’s leading Intimacy Coordinator and founder of Intimacy on Set, her company set up in 2018, which provides services to TV, film, and theatre when dealing with intimacy, sexual content, and nudity. O’Brien pioneered the role of the Intimacy Coordinator and since 2014 has been developing best practice Intimacy on Set Guidelines, which have been widely adopted in the industry and championed by the TIME’S UP movement and others, advocating for safe, fair and dignified work for everyone. O’Brien has worked on numerous high profile productions including Normal People (BBC3/Hulu), Sex Education 1&2 (Netflix), Gangs of London (Sky Atlantic), The Great (Hulu), I May Destroy You (BBC/HBO), Brave New World (Peacock/Sky One), It's A Sin (Channel 4) and has been widely covered in the national and international media as the leading spokesperson in this space. - www.itaobrien.com    www.intimacyonset.com

🌹 🎶 Vocal Revolution Ep 15 - Your Digital Voice with Emily & Alan Braithwaite, Yellow Tuxedo  
Release Date 7th January 2021 

🌹 🎶 How do we find our digital voice? - Digital Visibility Specialists, Emily and Alan take us on the adventure of building an authentic online presence. This episode is a big burst of yellow enthusiasm, guaranteed to leave you motivated and inspired (and singing Proud by Heather Small! ) 

🌹 🎶 Yellow Tuxedo are digital visibility specialists, husband and wife power duo, Emily and Alan Braithwaite. Experienced in working in both their own business and for major brands and organisations, Emily and Alan help businesses grow their online presence and master their digital visibility. Through consultancy and support services including the Digital Circus, they help businesses navigate the digital world including SEO, optimised content and social media in accessible, jargon-free ways. https://www.yellowtuxedo.co.uk/