Blog Posts

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Sing A New Song? – (We can but try).

    Hello and welcome to blog 2 of: ‘Some Thoughts On The Goings On In My Music World November/December 2014’. I’m all about the catchy titles, me. 2. CHOIR I work with a cross-community primary choir comprising two schools in North Belfast. I have worked with these schools, and others in the vincinity for over three…