A song a day for a month, with Musical Characteristics, Performances, Related Songs and Other Information. I wrote or arranged them all.
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January 2025: Extreme Re-Learning.
Categories: Composery Life
New Year and new things to get to grips with, which will require rapid and extreme re-learning as I go about my day-to-day composery business
Song Stories: Alleluia! Into The Light (a miner’s carol)
Categories: Song Stories
A Christmas Eve carol of a miner at work underground looking forward to a day off tomorrow and all the happy sensations that brings.
Song Stories: Knit Me Together
Categories: Choiry Endeavours, Composery Life, Song Stories
A setting of parts of Psalm 139 selected by Richard Evans, who commissioned Cheryl to compose the piece in memory of his wife Carol, who died in 2024.
Carols and Wintry Songs
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
Carols and Wintry Songs is the name of The Bridge Singers’ December 2024 concert. There’s some Christmassy, and also some not-Christmassy music!
Swarland Voices in 2024
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
What Swarland Voices have been up to in 2024.
December 2024: Advent Calendar
Categories: Composery Life
Welcome to this year’s musicky Advent Calendar. Every day there’ll be a festive song and a teensy bit of context, and maybe other snippets of news from 2024 too.
November 2024: Commissions Three
Categories: Composery Life
I have three songs to write this month – all commissions! Ooh – proper composer, or what!? I’ve already started one. Hopefully by the end of November they’ll all be done and I can tell you about them a bit more…
Arrangements of North-East Songs
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Choiry Endeavours
During the first half and a bit of 2024 The Bridge Singers were learning and performing mainly repertoire from the north-east of England. Here are the programme notes from the concerts with clips and information about the North-East songs I arranged for them.
seapieparcel – YouTube Channel Stories
Categories: Composery Life
Publishing videos of my songs/arrangements on my own YouTube channel has directly led to performances and score sales, so a good strategy all in all!
