Hello dear reader, I hope you’re as well as possible this chilly January day.
I’m going to start by doing a shout out for @glow.choir who have
Big Riot Energy with some of their songs this term!
Please enjoy this taster of a brand new song, Revolution! written by Hannah-Rose Tristram (moi) especially for GLOW this term & for LGBTQIA+ people everywhere.
Lyrics feature uplifting, important quotes adapted from Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P Johnson, Harvey Milk & James Baldwin, + some fresh original lyics by Hannah-Rose with help from Chris Brown.
If you fancy singing this song, come sing with GLOW Choir this term – all voices welcome at Brighton’s Community Choir for LGBTQIA+ people & Allies!
Book your place to join the singing – deets on https://bit.ly/GLOWBOOKING
If you’re a song leader and want materials for this song, or if you’re not attending GLOW and want to hear the full track, you can do so at getbrightonsinging.com/shop/ – which you can find via the GLOW website
Also likely to feature on this GLOW term’s riotous song menu:
* Standing in the way of control! Arrangement of the song by Gossip – being made by Hannah-Rose as we speak!
* Hope is the thing with feathers – a round based on a poem by Emily Dickinson, featuring a new-to-GLOW composer
* How Can I Keep From Singing? An ancient song that’s gone through many permutations, arranged by Hannah-Rose taking inspiration from Larry Gordon, Pete Seeger & other greats who have influenced the way this song shows up in the world
* A beautiful soothing invitation to ‘Be Yourself’ – by a new composer to GLOW
* A Million Nightingales – a song of freedom with words by a Palestinian poet, and music by a Jewish composer. Every time we sing this, 10% of profits from the session will be donated to relief work eg UNRWA or other relevant orgs.
And songs of building love through adversity,
songs of celebrating what we have,
songs of Summer (when the weather changes),
songs of adoration,
songs of silliness,
songs of depth – it’s a gorgeous menu shaping up for you!
Do be brave and come and join GLOW Choir, it’s a welcoming, inclusive space to be yourself & sing with other LGBTQIA+ folks & Allies. Hope to see you there!
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Secondly, I’m sharing celebratorily that I’m very proud to have completed the course below, which was fascinating, challenging, and an intersting overview with lots of detail, of how the voice impacts on and interacts with health and wellbeing in a variety of different ways, for different people. ❤ Hooray for learning. ❤
Image above reads: Voice Study Centre, Itol Accredited Course, January 2024,
Singing For Health Practitioner, : An Evidence Based Perspective, delivered by Professor Stephen Clift. Hannah-Rose Tristram has successfully passed the above accreditation. Signed, Debbie Winter, Director of Studies.
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With ongoing learning in mind, I’m undergoing training with the brilliant gender affirming voice teacher Renee Yoxon, studying two of their courses that run on a self led basis, on Mindful Voice Feminisation, and Masculinising Your Voice Without Testosterone (which can be helpful for people using T or not), and am hoping to undertake further study with them later this year, to help me better serve and affirm trans and non binary voices.
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On a personal note – it’s a big year and I’m probably going to be moving house at some point, and definitely going to be getting hitched to this beauty
…so with these exciting events, working multiple jobs and being chronically ill (which is currently extra tiresome post covid), and the surprises life will no doubt throw our way – it looks to be a rich and challenging year!
I look forward to supporting you in your voice journey in whatever way I can, during this year. Whether that’s through one to one voice coaching, singing lessons, choir spaces or something else – I hope to see and hear you singing!
Tata for now, Hannah-Rose
We have fallen into the place where everything is music - Rumi 