The Bridge Singers’ ways of keeping together as a choir, while not being able to meet up as a choir during the lockdown times of 2020-2021.
Lockdown Choir
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
Tag Archives: choir
Songs For May Day, The Bridge Singers
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
A celebration of May Day – the onset of summery times, the sunrise, love (the hope of it, the actuality of it, the loss of it), workers’ rights, some May festivals, both folk and religious…
Song Stories: Golden Rain Baby
Categories: Music Teaching Activities (Secondary), Song Stories
Golden Rain Baby is a lullaby for choir with melody instrument which was inspired by a Javanese piece of music, Bubaran Hudan Mas.
Song Stories: When I Was A Pilot
Categories: Song Stories
An “air shanty” composed at the request of a friend for her husband who was retiring from the RAF in 2020.
A Song A Day, February 2025
Categories: Arrangements for choir, Composery Life
A song a day for a month, with Musical Characteristics, Performances, Related Songs and Other Information. I wrote or arranged them all.
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.
Swarland Voices in 2024
Categories: Choiry Endeavours
What Swarland Voices have been up to in 2024.
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.
