October 15

October 15

by | Sep 14, 2017 | Gigs

3pm on October 15, Oxford A concert with Pete McMullin – songs by Faure and other Parisians, at Pegasus Grange  
Bird song

Bird song

by | Sep 9, 2017 | Front Page, Singing

“You can muffle the sound of the drums, you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who can stop the skylark from singing?” Kahlil Gibran Over the summer I’ve been making music round campfires, in streets and churches. In churches there’s been...
Improv

Improv

by | Jul 21, 2017 | Front Page, Singing

IMPROV Last week was a good singing week – bounded at either end by a good solid Latin Mass (the first of which was a 4-parter by Palestrina, bliss), in the middle I did two pub gigs and a Cole-Porter afternoon, plus a day improvising in London. The improvising...
Chicken book

Chicken book

by | May 12, 2013 | Writing

CHICKEN COOPS FOR THE SOUL – http://bit.ly/Coops1 When Julia Hollander went to buy her daughter a rabbit for Christmas she came home with a couple of hens. Five years later, the whole family was on its way to the National Poultry Club show, connoisseurs of the...