Sing-along Café 2024-10-10

It was another lovely evening in the company of lovely people. We ate banana chocolate-chip muffins and sipped cinnamon spice tea, sang, talked, laughed and wondered at our wonderful world.

Our theme of home and family was a good one. There's so much to talk about with families and our roles in them, and what is a family, and how do we feel about home?

Here's a selection of the songs we sang and listened to:

Home by Michael Bublé
Take the Long Way Home by Supertramp
Our House by Madness
Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd
She's Leaving Home by the Beatles
For the Beauty of the Earth by Brother K
Father and Son by Cat Stevens and by Johnny Cash
Loves Me Like a Rock by Paul Simon
Good Hands by Kylie Morgan
Rise Again by The Rankin Family
Isn't She Lovely by Stevie Wonder

This next week, October 17th, we'll have fun with a Food theme! Which is also a big part of Thanksgiving, right?

I hope to see you all there on Thursday!

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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

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

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