Introducing... The Sing Happy Mail-out

Introducing... The Sing Happy Mail-out

Introducing our brand new Sing Happy blog posts! Featuring content about singing, wellbeing, what’s happened in the last month, and tips and tricks for running singing groups and choirs!

The new monthly newsletter and blog post is a tool to grow an extended choir leader community to enable us to support each other as we start the new year. Posts will talk about things we’re all experiencing as choir and singing leaders and the newsletter will keep us up to date with what’s happening in the singing world.

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Thatcher's Theatre

Margaret Thatcher continues to keep us talking, even in death.

I was born in the Thatcher era, turning five shortly before she resigned in 1990. It’s hard to comment on how I felt about life under her government – but it didn’t escape my attention that she was affectionately referred to as ‘Margaret Thatcher-Milk Snatcher’ in my house.  I had some of my earliest theatre games pretending to be Betty Boothroyd (former Speaker of the House of Commons), silencing my grandma (gallantly playing Mrs. Thatcher) with a ringing ‘ORDER! ORDER!’ (all of this role play comes in handy for crowd controlling the Starling Arts choirs we run!). I won’t do a Harry Styles fan-base style faux-pas and mistake her for a man or ‘something to do with the queen’, but I do think it’s hard for my generation to take in how resounding Thatcher's policies were, for better or for worse.

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