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    • Free choir resources
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      • Admin Planning for a new group
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      • Musical Planning & Reflective Practice
    • Comfort Of Voices Songbook
    • Warm Ups
    • 2021 Love Singing commissions
      • A New Day – song
      • A New Day – resources
      • Lead The Way – song
      • Lead The Way – resources
      • Song For Water – song
      • Song For Water – resources
      • Where There Is Music – song
      • Where There Is Music – resources
      • Whisper Wildly – song
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Creating Words for Music Course

Dates: Tuesday evenings, 6pm-7pm, on 1st, 8th, 15th & 22nd September
Venue: Online on Zoom
Cost: Free to Scotland Sings network members – join here

A fantastic opportunity for those of you who want to start or develop your music writing for singing groups and choirs by starting with the words. This participative course includes structured tuition, guidance and short writing tasks to inspire the creation of new text / lyrics to get you started.

Led by renowned singing leader and songwriter Ali Burns and creative writing specialist Jessica Boatright. Each session will build on previous exercises and therefore participants should attend all 4 dates.

We have space for 23 people on this course. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.

Scotland Sings network members will get priority booking until the end of June, then places will open to other song leaders in the UK. If you are not based in Scotland, we will ask you to pay £40 to attend.


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This course is currently only open to those based in Scotland. General registration opens at the start of July - please come back then to find out if there are places available and to register.

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Free for those based in Scotland

This project is funded by Creative Scotland for the benefit of Scotland-based song leaders. If you are attending from the rest of the UK, there is a £40 fee payable. We will send you a link to a payment page when we confirm your place.
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