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🌹 🎶 Taking Pride in Your Voice

 

 
Dear Friend

🌹 🎶 June Singing 🎶 🌹
Welcome to this month's newsletter
Featuring...

🌹 🎶June Blog - Taking Pride in Your Voice 🌹 🎶
In celebration of Pride Month we claim the power of healthy pride and
charge up our roar with coaching from the late, great Tina Turner. 
Plus...
 The Singing Yeah! Song - something silly to make you smile :)

🌹 🎶 Places to charge up your Singing Pride this month 🌹 🎶
*  Midsummer Melodies Concert with Welcome Choir & Cambria Choir on 22nd June @ All Saints Tooting, part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe
* Many Voices - Celebrate Pride Month with LGBTQIA+ singing group (+allies) 25th June, 1.30-3.00pm Essex Church
* The Show Must Go On - workshop hosted by Dartford Township Choir 8th July, 10:30am-5pm Spital Street Methodist Church, Dartford DA1 2DX
* Singing Picnic 13th August 1-4pm @ St John the Evangelist, SE19 2UP - relaxed singing fun on a summer afternoon 
* Turning Point Magazine - Summer Issue Out Now! Yay!
* Vocal Revolution Coaching - unleash your roar!
* Rose on the Road - are you outta (London) town -
would you like a singing experience for your choir/group?

Do grab a cuppa and read all about it - thanks for tuning in! 
Pic: a rainbow sunset from a recent adventure in Brighton

🌹 🎶 Taking Pride in Your Voice 🎶 🌹
What have you done today to make you feel proud? - Heather Small - Proud

If we rustle around in the roots of the word Proud we find the Old French, Latin, Norse and English words prud /prouz meaning 'splendid, magnificent, stately, fine, brave, valiant, advantageous, forward, noble.'  
Healthy pride is a joyful feeling of celebration of the best in ourselves and each other - not just our achievements, but who we are at our core.

Many of us were told not to be 'too much' or 'too loud' or get 'too big for our boots.'  As a result, we learned to play small and quiet and to push away recognition and reward in case it made us 'big-headed.'  
Healthy pride empowers us to think, speak, sing and act expansively, drawing strength from our gifts and achievements and gleaning wisdom from our flaws and challenges. As such, pride is not a fixed state but an ongoing (r)evolution. 

On the flipside, hubris is unhealthy, over-exaggerated pride which proceeds not from real achievements or abilities, but from the drive for power - a certain pandemic partying Prime Minister comes to mind. Rather than an ego-driven smash-n-grab race to the bottom, a healthy sense of pride motivates us to do and be our best in service of the world around us.    
"Pride can be good for us, hubris is dangerous and humility is key to grounded confidence and healthy relationships." - Brene Brown

Owning Pride: list 10 values you hold dear, 10 compliments you've received and 10 moments you felt proud.
Collective Connective Pride
"There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about." - Margaret J Wheatley, American Author, Educator, Speaker
Just as prides of lionnesses hunt and raise their young together, in purposeful groups we can build collaborative, collective pride which ripples out in creative, connective contribution.
Raising a multitude of rainbow voices and born after the Stonewall riots in 1970, Pride marches now take place in 102 countries often in the face of persecution - homosexuality is criminalized in 64 countries. Sharing powerful messages of inclusivity, tolerance and empowered self-expression, Pride is a proud party and a powerful protest, pioneering a glorious celebration of rainbow diversity. 
Building Collective Pride: what simple positive action can you take today to contribute to a group, community or another person?
 
Roaring Pride
"I am proud to have played a part in clearing that path for women of the next generation - and the next," - Tina Turner
RAH! Lions have a special set of vocal anatomy - instead of triangular folds they have large, flat, square thick folds which convert lung power to roar power.  It's hard to imagine a lion worrying about being too big or too loud - roaring is just what they do, they were built for it. We too are built as sounding beings and we can look to the fearless lion/esses in our midst for inspiration.
Roaring Pride: warm up into your roar by yawning, stretching and sliding your voice then give it a go! RAAAHHH!
 
Tina Turner's roar shattered ceilings - after surviving domestic violence, she had her first solo No 1 aged 44. Crowned Queen of Rock n Roll, she faced down the racism of the music industry and blazed a trail that would be followed by Beyonce, Lizzo and those yet to come.   
Initially, Tina admits, she didn't like her voice, as she did not sound like Diana Ross.In her book Happiness Becomes You, she coaches us to overcome self-critical negative voices saying "it’s time to tell those voices you’ve heard their propaganda, and you’re not going to take it anymore. Dismiss them, and you will be the only one holding the pen as you write the story of your life.”  When we talk down the small voices of fear and follow our big-hearted roar we become simply the best.
Rose on the Road - getting the singing show out and about - would you like a workshop for your choir or community? - drop me a line 
Wishing you a radiant rainbow Pride Month
Look forward to seeing and singing with soon.
Be well, breathe deep and keep singing loudly!

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🌹 🎶 The Singing - Yeah! Song
A short silly song about how great singing is - yeah! Easy SATB - good for warming up and celebrating the full spectrum of voices - from the highs to the lows! :) Arrangement available from: https://www.therosewindow.org/choral-arrangements
 

🌹 🎶Choir Calendar 🎶🌹

🌹 🎶Welcome Choir 🎶🌹
Warm, welcoming lively choir who laugh as much as they sing!
Thursdays 7.00-8.30pm, St John the Evangelist, Sylvan Road, SE19 2RX
First session free, then pay by term. More info Facebook Page
Next Concert: Midsummer Melodies @All Saints, Tooting

🌹 🎶Breathe Harmony NHS Staff Choir 🎶🌹
Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS staff choir run by Breathe Arts Health Research
Led by Musical Directors Mike King & Katie Rose More information

🌹 🎶  BLG Mind Wellbeing Choir🎶🌹
Led by Musical Directors Sarah Fisher & Katie Rose
Tuesdays 2.30-4pm, Azelia Hall, 258 Croydon Road, Beckenham, BR3 4DA

🌹 🎶 Carers Support Centre Choir 🎶🌹
Sing & Shine - Singing Respite Sessions for Carers. 
Weds 10.30-11.45am, Carers Support Centre, 24 George Street, CR0 1PG 
Free for Croydon Carers More information
Celebrating Carers Week June 5th - 1tth

🌹 🎶 Caterham Community Choir 🎶🌹
Co-Directed by Sarah Fisher & Katie Rose
Tuesdays 7-9pm, de Stafford School, Burntwood Lane, CR3 5YX Facebook Page
Join us for Afternoon Tea & Songs @ St Lawrences Church 23rd July.

🌹 🎶 HeartSong 🎶🌹
Happy heartwarming harmonies with Cardiac Friends & Co.
Bi-monthly Singing on Fridays 2-4pm, Holwell Village Hall, Pirton Lane, SG5 3SS

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🌹 🎶 Choir Events 🎶🌹

🌹 🎶 The Show Must Go On 🎶🌹
Delighted to be leading a workshop hosted by 
Dartford Township Choir 8th July, 10:30am-5pm
Spital Street Methodist Church, 43 Spital St, Dartford DA1 2DX
We will be smashing Queen’s epic anthem in style, exploring and stretching our voices in a fun friendly atmosphere. More info

🌹 🎶 Sing for Water International 🎶🌹
Sunday September 17th @3pm
Due to funding cuts, sadly there won't be a large-scale Sing for Water London concert this year - instead, as the need for clean water still continues, we are holding a global tune-in - find out more and sign up here.

OUT NOW! - Summer Issue of TurningPoint: Your Lifestyle, Your-WellBeing

Themed A Woman’s Tenacity - Stepping Stones to Success, this issue is full of inspirational stories from women including lead singer of Shalamar, Caroline Griffey and ‘The Supreme Dream Team’ powering Soul Train/Solar Records - Jessie Tsang, Dina R Andrews and Sonia Damney.
There’s also wisdom from Music Legends Omar and Steve Collazo of Odyssey, plus tonnes of juicy summer tips on fashion, health and well-being.
READ & SUBSCRIBE HERE
So honoured to be a columnist - huge thanks to amazing Editor Esther Austin 🌟🤩💓
 
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