Lady Maisery's Big Winter Sing

We’re very excited to announce a new course - our Big Winter Sing! This course will be a cosy weekend of singing wintery songs together in a big group, eating seasonal food and brightening up the short winter days with our voices!

The course is a special winter incarnation of our Big Sing weekends, our signature group singing courses that take place on the hilly outer-edges of Sheffield. The course is focused on big group singing, learning some great harmony songs and enjoying ourselves. We’ll eat delicious home cooked food, enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings and experience the joy of singing together.

What we’ll be doing

We invite singers of all abilities to stretch themselves, discover something new, gain more confidence and, most importantly, have a lot of fun. We have been running singing weekends and week-long courses over the past decade and they are incredibly popular. With well-being, good food and a friendly approach at the centre of the weekend, participants should expect to sing lots within the safety and big sound of a group. We never ask anyone to sing on their own and aim for everyone (however experienced or not) to get something out of the workshop. Songs are taught by ear, with lyric sheets where needed. The material will be in three part harmony and the songs will be from our Lady Maisery repertoire or other songs we’re excited to share!

Each singing weekend is a little different and on our big sings we focusing on the pure joy of singing in a big group! The weekend will include activities such as: thorough physical, breathing and vocal warm ups, learning rounds and simple songs, learning some bigger more complex group songs in glorious three part harmony and having a go at improvisation in an inspiring and supportive atmosphere.

Rough schedule

We’ll meet on Friday night for some informal singing, and we’ll finish with tea and cake at 3pm on Sunday. We start at 10am on Saturday and Sunday, and on Saturday night we'll have a banquet together, followed by an 'open-stage' where participants can get up to share a song, a poem, a turn of some kind - this is always a highlight of the weekend.