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Home | About Us | Gallery | Downloads | Contact Introducing Sing for Joy!Sing for Joy is a community choir for people with Parkinsons Disease and similar conditions, their friends and carers. We are all sorts of ages, types and genders; all that we have in common is that we have an illness, or care for someone with an illness, and that singing with others makes us feel better. Singing is the Perfect TonicA small, spirited figure stands in the middle of the semi circle of seated people. She lifts her arms and with great energy sings out a single word: “Freeeeeeee….” Her rich voice fills the brightly-lit room. She lifts her arms again and 20 voices sing back, “….like a river!” These voices are thinner; some tremble, a couple growl along below the general pitch. However, as the call and response continue the voices get clearer and stronger and more tuneful. This is the Sing For Joy choir, just warming up... Read more here. Singing the blues to celebrate OscarRead about the tribute to Oscar Browne at Lauderdale House. Click here Music a 'mega-vitamin' for the brainWhen Nina Temple was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2000, then aged 44, she quickly became depressed, barely venturing out of her house as she struggled to come to terms with living with the chronic condition. "I was thinking of all the things which I wished I'd done with my life and I wouldn't be able to do. And then I started thinking about all the things that I still actually could do and singing was one of those," Temple told CNN... Read the full article or watch the video. Choir Paper
Sing for Joy: making the best of chronic and degenerative illnesses through voice work and becoming part of a new singing community. by Wendy L. Magee, Nina Temple, Carol Grimes & Sarah Benson To download the Choir Paper, please click here. Please note that the Choir Paper may open in a new window or tab. The Choir Paper is in pdf format. Find our more about Sing for Joy, please click here. |
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