An “air shanty” composed at the request of a friend for her husband who was retiring from the RAF in 2020.
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Limerick Composing
Categories: Composing Activities for Classes, Song Stories
A generic limerick tune that can be used to sing any limerick and also to create new lyrics in that form.
Song Stories: St. John Vianney’s School Song
Categories: Composing Projects Completed, Song Stories
A school song for a Catholic Primary School’ 60th birthday.
Song Stories: Rainbow Song
Categories: Song Stories
A song with eight verses, each focusing on a different colour, and one on the rainbow itself.
Song Stories: Touch The History On The Breeze
Categories: Composing Projects Completed, Song Stories
A Northumberland song composed for three local primary schools with verse on the river, the castle and the ocean.
Song Stories. Skydancer: Ghost Of The Moors
Categories: Composing Projects Completed, Song Stories
I was asked to compose a song for Hen Harrier Day Online in August 2020. I completed the task in April 2020 during the Covid 19 lockdown period with the hep of The Bridge Singers, who have recorded the song remotely in their own homes and sent their tracks to me for editing. Hopefully other […]
Song Stories: Be An Agent For Change
Categories: Song Stories
The story of a song I wrote for some Fairtrade composing workshops. It summarizes four Fairtrade stories from around the world.
Song Stories: Lullaby Of Silences
Categories: Life As A Composer, Song Stories
A lullaby composed for The Bridge Singers (SATB choir) of Felton and Thirston in Northumberland. It is inspired by the stature of Elizabeth Dacre Howard at Lanercost Priory in Cumbria, who died in 1883 at the age of four months.
Song Stories: Loud Blaw The Frosty Breezes
Categories: Song Stories
It’s a story of collaboration as well as continuing to indulge my passion for the poetry of Robert Burns.
Song Stories: Quiet Window
Categories: Composing Projects Completed, Life As A Composer, Song Stories
The Brief: Compose a song for The Bridge Singers to be performed at their “Magical Glass” concert in June 2017. The topic of the song to relate to a window in St. Michael’s Church, Felton (the venue for the concert) which is in need of repair. The Window: It’s at the back of the church […]