Location

Totnes, South Devon

Specialisms

Harmony and sacred singing spaces. Drop in, no performances, informal.

Additional information

I wandered back into harmony singing in my late 40s after a long break (I\’d previously been a chorister and then a folk club floor singer) and had the good fortune to fall in with a whole string of NVN legends, culminating in co-leading  alongside Nick Prater in the community where we lived as neighbours.

I now hold a weekly Thursday evening harmony singing space, and a Sacred Song evening on the first Sunday of each month in the beautiful Angel Hall at Bowden House Community – and am always delighted to welcome people to join us in what is in effect my extended living room. Songs from all over, but with quite a few gospel – Tony Backhouse is a big influence and usually leads a workshop here on his occasional visits from the other side of the worls!

We sing for our own enjoyment and thus have none of the pressures of preparing for performance. In practical terms this means that we can welcome those who pass through for just one evening, those who drop in and out when they can, alongside the regulars who are there most weeks.

I like to think that the harmony we create together ripples out into the wider world, trickles down into the earth beneath our feet and radiates out towards the stars.