Blog Posts

  • Lessons of DAW

    So the title – Pure anorak, I know. Not even great as a pun, but I couldn’t seem to resist. DAW, for the uninitiated, stands for Digital Audio Workstation – a computer programme used to record, mix and produce music/audio. I spent much of my twenties working with them as a producer on radio. I…

  • Facilitator superpower? Listening. Proper listening…

    I’m a long time leading music workshops. In no particular order, these are some things I’ve observed, learned, suspect to be true. Have a range of resources – games/songs/meditations/riddles/rhymes. Contrasting activity and material can calm dysregulated/hyper-activity, or energise a low energy room. Children respond to kindness and genuine interest in them (they can smell false).…

  • Farset Project: The Singers & The Song

    NOTE: This piece is more about community arts and how it is conceived and delivered, than it is about the music delivery itself.  The Farset Project was a singing project I facilitated with a group of women called Women United. It was an initial project of 8 weeks. In that time we wrote an original…

  • Only a Woman…

    It’s gotten better. But still. Somewhere in there, the nagging, gnawing suspicion that girls/women are just not as good, or not built/allowed to be as good at their passions as the boys. I have a number of theories about why this endures as an idea. I work in early years music education. I see kids…

  • Run fast?

    13.09.2020 I run in a park. It is a big park with a general parky-bit. A circular walking track with walkers, cyclists, dog and/or baby walkers, ducks swans and a family of Herons that took up residence during the lockdown. There are Jolly Joggers too. I say jolly, because they manage to conduct seemingly jolly…