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Thursday, April 18 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with La-las (and other nonsense: ooh, doo-dah, na-na, scoobie-doobie, bum-ba-bum, hey!). I call all of these little non-word lyrics la-las. They're often my favourite part of a song. Everyone can sing those words, usually. With scat singing, not usually, and with yodeling, not everyone. But, think about the Beatles song Hey Jude. At the end, everyone can sing along with the na-nas and some of us even like to harmonize with them. When my daughter was writing songs, I urged her to put some nonesense la-las in her songs. Don't worry about finding beautiful, powerful words for all the verses, or all the lines of the chorus. Sometimes, the lack of words makes a melody more powerful. Here's the list of songs we sang and listened to: Can't Get You Out of My Head by Kylie Minogue Everything by Michael Bublé Those Were the Days by Mary Hopkin Hey Jude by the Beatles Tom's Diner by Suzanne Vega &DNA De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da

Our Study Recordings Here

I think this could be a good place to share recordings to help us learn our Trinity choir and praise team songs. Kevin has made recordings of our new song When I Look Into Your Holiness. I put them in my Google Drive so that I can find them easily and so that they're available to me across devices. I'm sharing that with you here. Your Holiness You should be able to open up that folder and see five files. One is a scan of the sheet music and the others are the four sound files: one for the beginning, where we're all together in unison, and then the last two pages, which each repeat, in 3 parts. It's going to be good, and nice and easy now that we can hear our parts any time, any where. I can't promise that I'll always be able to do this, but when I can, I will.

Benefits of Group Singing- It's Good for You in Every Way

I have a bit of a collection of articles about singing. It's so good to see my feelings validated like this. If it's hard to read this infographic, you can click here to open and download a pdf version. Also, you can go to the page on the Choral Canada website to read more. https://www.choralcanada.org/en/benefits-of-singing You don't have to be in a choir and you don't have to be a "good" singer. Just sing with others, together, and you get most of these benefits. And, even singing by yourself is good for you. Humming is good, listening to music is good, and even remembering a song in your head is good. At Trinity, we have lots of ways we can sing together. On Sunday mornings, there's always a lot of singing, starting at 9:30 with Choir rehearsal, and then all through the church service, in the choir or in the pews. On Tuesday mornings, there's Praise Team. On Thursday evenings, we have Sing-along Café. I'm thinking about daytime Sing-along Caf

Thursday, April 11 Sing-along Café Review

The theme for the evening was: Songs with Instumentals that We Sing. The easiest way to introduce this theme is "Sweet Caroline, BA-BA-BA!". Everyone sings along with the brass section, singing like trumpets. There's also a little instrumental interlude that I sing along with. I almost always sing la-las (or ba-ba, da-da, nya-nya, doo, dit, bop...) for the instrumental introductions and interludes in songs. I sing with classical instrumental music, joking that "I know all the words." I'm not the only one. You do this too. Here's the list of songs we sang: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond A Taste of Honey by Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass Wipe Out by the Surfaris The Fool on the Hill by the Beatles I'll Never Fall in Love Again by Dionne Warwick Windy by The Association Careless Whisper by George Michael True by Spandau Ballet Down Under by Men at Work Feeling Good by Michael Bublé More Than a Feeling by Boston Baker Street by Gerry Raffer

New Name of My Singing Night: Sing-along Café

Community Singing Evening sponsored by Trinity

We want to share our Singing Nights. Armchairs, sofas, a big TV screen for the lyrics, and playlists with themes, tea and cookies or squares (often home made), and good conversation with lovely company, The reviews I wrote after each Thursday night always ended with "It was a lovely evening in lovely company." This is what My Singing Night has evloved into, a comfy sing-along evening with friends. This is what we want to share. It's singing with a therapeutic, social, easy feel, without worrying about our voices, our timing and notes, reading music, or performing. We're singing purely for fun, and as a springboard to talking about all the big themes of life. We're recalling the past as we recall the lyrics and melodies of the songs of our youth. We started skipping learning the sheet music, or learning parts to hymns and praise team songs. We'd sing along with a video or recording of a few of the Sunday songs and then start singing pop songs from the past,