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AGM Agenda

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Sing Loch Ewe - First Annual General Meeting

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When and how should we meet to discuss our constitution and moving forward with the group's financial sustainability

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On a different night/day than our regular singing session

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Set a date for our first AGM and agree on our constitution then. 

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Here's a short anonymous survey to help shape the future of Sing Loch Ewe. Please find the survey here.

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Please use this short form to share your thoughts and preferences to help shape the future of Sing Loch Ewe and enhance your experience. All responses are anonymous and each question is optional but designed to help you consider different aspects of the group.

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Link to latest version of our Constiution

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Link to latest version of our Constiution

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Lyrics to additional songs we may sing at the sing along!

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O Come All Ye Faithful

Ding Dong Merrily On High

The 12 Days of Christmas

Away in a Manger (common tune)

In the Bleak Mid Winter

Good King Wenceslas

Hark the Herald Angels Sing

O Little Town of Bethlehem

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In no particular order... lyrics for requested Christmas songs

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Would love to attemp this with anyone willing

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Would love to attemp this with anyone willing

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Spreadsheet for Pop up cafe arrangements October 3rd 2023

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Spreadsheet for Pop up cafe arrangements October 3rd 2023

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Create a new spreadsheet and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Sheets to edit Excel files. Free from Google.

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Seasons changing.... do we want to do another Christmas Gig of some sort? Opinions? Songs?

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Seasons changing.... do we want to do another Christmas Gig of some sort? Opinions? Songs?

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This is the recording from the Google drive, compressed as an .mp3 file

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Same recording as on Google Drive compressed as .mp3 file

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See the Recordings column for links to our latest recordings of Shine and over the hill!

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See the Recordings column for links to our latest recordings of Shine and over the hill!

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Our Audio files were too big to post here without my having to pay a subscription. Please click on the link in the recordings folder to access the files. If you can't get access let me know as I may need to give you permission

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Link to latest recording of Over the Hill on Google Drive

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Link to latest recording of Over the Hill on Google Drive

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Link to latest recording of Shine on Google drive 

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Link to latest recording of Shine on Google drive 

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We will be performing at the Ceilidh. Doors open from 7pm. Come at 7 to have chance to rehearse beforehand!

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Meeting at 7pm on Sat 2nd Sep for singing at Ceilidh- Poolewe Hall.

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Meeting at 7pm on Sat 2nd Sep for singing at Ceilidh- Poolewe Hall.

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Impromptu Cazoo's at Kinlochewe Funday

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Singing at Aultbea Hall

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Upcoming events and chances to perform - dates to be confirmed

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Upcoming events and chances to perform - dates to be confirmed

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Ullapool trip - Corrieshalloch
Inverasdale Tea room
Gruinard House?
Dundonell House
Pancake barn?
Perfume Studio
Walk and sing?

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Access Google Calendar with a Google account (for personal use) or Google Workspace account (for business use).

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With slightly Anglicised lyrics ...

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Poster for Andi's upcoming Gig with us as Support. Download and spread the word :-)

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Poster for Andi's upcoming Gig with us as Support. Download and spread the word :-)

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Lyrics to Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

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Lyrics to Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby

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Go to sleep you little baby (main - low) 

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Go to sleep you little baby (main - low) 

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Andi Neate's support gig at Aultbea Hub 24th March

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Andi Neate's support gig at Aultbea Hub 24th March

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Andi has asked that we come along to support her gig at Aultbea community hub in March. We'll be singing from 7pm but there will be sound checks on the Tuesday test mic's and practice during he day - exact time TBC.  On the Friday we can arrive from 6:30pm. We'll be on as Choir from 7:40pm ish to 8:15ish (concert starts at 7:30pm). Andi will be performing after this time. Seats for the choir are limited this time so it would be good to find out who can make along to the performance on the 24th. Chat to you at the rehearsal this week about this and other logistics.

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The Snow Hare lyrics  - The Lost Words_ Spell Songs

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One of several versions. I also have sheet music for this.

(Silkies are seals that can become human on land)

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Be Whatcha Gonna Be

A simple, wonderful song of empowerment that begs everyone to sing along, from Sarah Nutting of MaMuse. NOTE: This recording has been updated as of mid-June 2018 with personally corrected parts by Sarah and a new arrangement for Wholehearted Chorus. In this arrangement, the chorus splits in two parts (low and high), and within each section singers split up to take turns holding the ongoing bass lines or responding to the caller.

Composer & Copyright

Song composed and copyright Sarah Nutting. Be Whatcha Gonna Be is included in this song library with permission for the purposes of oral tradition singing and teaching. If singing this song for performance or recording for profit, you must get permission from and pay royalties to the composer.

Recording

Recording updated 6/17/18 by Lisa G. Littlebird for Wholehearted Chorus.

Lyrics

Ba-doom bee-da, ba-doom bee-da
Ba-doom bo-da, ba-doom bo-da
Ba-doom bee-da, ba-doom bee-da
Ba-doom bo-da, ba-doom bo-da

Walk your walk, sing your song
It's your life, you belong
We are here, we are free
Don't you worry, just be whatcha gonna be

Teaching Notes

I love teaching this song in circles with singers of every level of experience. It can be taught very quickly and it's a great opener or closer. I usually start by introducing the words by call and response slowly (I'm the caller), then getting the group going with the quick call and response timing. Because it's call and response the singers don't need to memorize the words and tend to pick it up very quickly. I then teach the bass line with harmony and get everyone going with that. After that's going I'll indicate to a section of the circle to respond to my call while the rest of the circle holds the bass lines, then switch. The ending can become a fun, popcorn-style improv ending of the "be whatcha gonna be" line. This song works great with or without drums.

This recording is in G, although it's versatile up or down a few steps.

Level of teaching speed/ difficulty (1 = very easy, 10 = very challenging)

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A simple, wonderful song of empowerment that begs everyone to sing along, from Sarah Nutting of MaMuse. NOTE: This recording has been updated as of mid-June 2018 with personally corrected parts by Sarah and a new arrangement for Wholehearted Chorus.

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Another song with an environmental message I'd be keen to try....

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On the benefits we're likely to get from singing...

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On the benefits we're likely to get from singing...

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Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley - Sing - BBC Sounds

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Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds.

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I found this rather lovely and wanted to share it. It might be a possible inspiration for our next song - poetry and tales of the sea.

(I think it goes here?)

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The Susurrations of the Sea - BBC Sounds

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The sounds of the sea, the words of people who listen to them, and new poetry.

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Tightrope (Music Video without Dialogue) || The Greatest Showman

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I absolutely love this song from 'The Greatest Show'. Would love to sing it with the group. X

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Tightrope (Music Video without Dialogue) || The Greatest Showman

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Constituting our singing group to apply for funding... 

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Constituting our singing group to apply for funding... 

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This is the next place I've been recommended to try for funding for the next year and to help our group reach further and spread the joy... but we'd need to be a constituted group, and open a bank account requiring at least one other person to be a signatory.

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Over the next six months we will prioritise applications that are COVID-19 related.

The application form requires you to insert a project start date 12 weeks in the future but we know that COVID-19 applications may need to start sooner. We will be flexible with the project start date and it can be earlier than the date stated on the form.
We will try to respond to such applications as quickly as possible.
If you would like to put in an application that is not related to COVID-19, you are still welcome to do so. However, there is likely to be greater competition for our funding, and it may take us longer to get a decision from us.

If your application is not related to COVID-19 it should take 12 weeks to get a decision from us. However, it may take us longer to respond to such applications if demand is high.

If you're successful, it normally takes 2 weeks to pay the money to you.

Apply online Continue online application

You can contact us if you have any communication support needs that make completing an application form difficult or impossible for you. We're happy to talk about alternative ways for you to tell us about your idea.

What information you need to apply
We ask for the contact details, home addresses and dates of birth of two different people from your organisation. Both contacts need different email addresses.
One person should be someone we can talk to if we have any questions about your project. The other should be a senior member of your organisation. Both need to live in the UK.

These two people can't be:

related by blood

married to each other

in a long-term relationship with each other

living together at the same address.

We ask for the legal name of your organisation - and its address. And what type of organisation it is
Make sure these are up to date and match up with any information or identity documents we ask for (when you get to the application part).

We ask for information about your organisation's accounts

We want to know the date your accounts wrap up each year and how much income you have.

If you don't have yearly accounts because you're a new organisation (less that 15 months old) that's okay. We can still look at your application.

We ask for a bank statement from the last 3 months

It should show:

your organisation's legal name

address the statements are sent to

your banks name

the account code and sort number

date the statement was issued.

Here's a handy picture of the kind of bank statement we're looking for.

We ask you for information about what sort of project you'd like to do

And how your project will help and involve your community.

We also ask you to read and agree to our terms and conditions

You can have a look at the terms and conditions here.

If you're not sure about the sort of things we ask for when you apply

What happens after you apply?

1. You send us your application - If your application is in response to COVID-19 we will get back to you with a decision as soon as possible. Otherwise, we'll aim to get back to you with a decision in around 12 weeks. During these 12 weeks we look at your idea and do our security checks. You can find out more about the checks we do. We might give you a call within those 12 weeks, to talk a little more about your idea, or ask for more information.

2. If your application is successful - we'll send you an email with the good news! And we'll put the funding in your bank account within 14 days.

3. You can start spending the funding on your project - you should spend the funding the way you said you would in your application (unless we've agreed to something different first). We might check in from time to time - to see how things are going. Find out more about managing your funding.

4. Share your story - you can tell your local community, share your good news on social media, or get in touch with local newspapers. There's some information about how to publicise your grant. We'll make a press announcement and share your story too. You can also download a logo for you to use to show you have National Lottery Awards for All funding.

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National Lottery Awards for All Scotland | The National Lottery Community Fund

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Over the next six months we will prioritise applications that are COVID-19 related. The application form requires you to insert a project start date 12 weeks in the future but we know that COVID-19 applications may need to start sooner.

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We can just sing for fun or we can sing for an upcoming event or to share our fun with others. Ideas here please

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A place to share and comment on potential fundraising ideas

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I would love to sing this song - it does make me cry a bit so might have to make sure I am over that before, but I think it's beautiful.

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The Lost Words Blessing

Composer & Copyright

Original song by Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew.

Recording

Lyrics

Enter the wild with care, my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you travel far from heather, crag and river
May you like the little fisher, set the stream alight with glitter
May you enter now as otter without falter into water

Look to the sky with care, my love
And speak the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you journey on past dying stars exploding
Like the gilded one in flight, leave your little gifts of light
And in the dead of night my darling,
find the gleaming eye of starling
Like the little aviator, sing your heart to all dark matter

Walk through the world with care, my love
And sing the things you see
Let new names take and root and thrive and grow
And even as you stumble through machair sands eroding
Let the fern unfurl your grieving, let the heron still your breathing
Let the selkie swim you deeper, oh my little silver-seeker
Even as the hour grows bleaker, be the singer and the speaker
And in city and in forest, let the larks become your chorus
And when every hope is gone, let the raven call you home

More About This Song

In 2018, Robert Macfarlane and Jackie Morris produced a book called The Lost Words Spells. The prompt of the book was the editing of the 'Oxford Junior Dictionary' in recent years. The junior edition of the Oxford Dictionary is aimed at readers ages seven and up and since 2007 the editors have removed from the book many words used to denote/describe things of nature- some of them relatively common words, such as: acorn, bluebell, ivy, fern, moss, blackberry, dandelion, lark, raven, heron, starling, hazel, heather, goldfinch, grey seal, otter and kingfisher.

The editing body of the OED had determined that the words were of little and lessening use to the modern child. Youngsters weren't hob-nobbing with hedgehogs and wrens (also excised) and frogs and buttercups (another casualty!), and so needn't be introduced to words that served well only with regards to the out-of-doors. They excused their actions on the grounds that they needed room for other, newer words with greater relevance to the modern child. Like: attachment, blog, broadband, chatroom, database, committee, and voice-mail.

In 2015, authors Margaret Atwood, Helen Macdonald, and Macfarlane, among other novelists and nature writers, expressed their dismay in an open letter to Oxford University Press. "Childhood is undergoing profound change; some of this is negative; and the rapid decline in children's connections to nature is a major problem," they wrote.

This song, The Lost Words Blessing was written in Scottish Gaelic folkloric form by a group of European musicians - Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew. The form is inspired by blessings in Scottish Gaelic, particularly from a beautiful collection of charms and incantations called Carmina Gadelica. It is offered both in hope and light, and in grief for the losses yet to come.

Teaching Notes

Coming soon!

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The Lost Words Blessing - The Bird Sings

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Original song by Julie Fowlis, Karine Polwart, Seckou Keita, Kris Drever, Rachel Newton, Beth Porter, Jim Molyneux, Kerry Andrew.

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Updated poster for our singing group! Please download, print/share to spread the word.

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Updated poster for our singing group! Please download, print/share to spread the word.

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Link to an online Piano keyboard for starting notes and working out melodies 

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Link to an online Piano keyboard for starting notes and working out melodies 

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Can be used individually or can be shared with others in real time or at a later time via a link

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Play music together live on the web with this simple tool for remote teaching and collaboration.

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Music, making connections, and mental health: insights from Carers' Music Fund

Episode Summary

Since September 2019, Spirit of 2012's Carers' Music Fund projects have been engaging women carers across the UK in music activities. As a learning and insight partner, we at the Centre are bringing out the insights on what the pathways to improved wellbeing have been. This is our latest in the evaluation outputs for the project: a 25-min podcast packed with music and learning for commissioners and those delivering participatory music-making activities.

Episode Notes

Host: Ingrid Abreu Scherer, Civil Society Lead at the What Works Centre for Wellbeing. whatworkswellbeing.org

With huge thanks to the project staff and participants who spoke to us for this podcast, and shared their music-making.

Peter and Gina from the Monster Extraction project in My Pockets, an award winning production company based in Hull and East Yorkshire. My Pockets make innovative and heartfelt films, music, digital campaigns and social art projects. http://www.mypockets.co.uk/

Laura Roberts from Jack Drum Arts, a sustainable, locally-based social enterprise providing cultural opportunities for communities in County Durham and the wider region through a range of workshops, courses, theatre, music-making and outdoor events. https://www.jackdrum.co.uk/

Teya-Jean Bawden from the Lullaby Project in Fèis Rois, enables people of all ages to access, participate in and enjoy the traditional arts and Gaelic language through a diverse programme of activities in Ross & Cromarty, across Scotland and beyond.

Ruth Hollis from Spirit of 2012. The Carers' Music Fund was made possible by funding that Spirit of 2012 received from the Tampon Tax Fund, awarded through the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

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Music, making connections, and mental health: insights from Carers' Music Fund

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Since September 2019, Spirit of 2012's Carers' Music Fund projects have been engaging women carers across the UK in music activities. As a learning and insight partner, we at the Centre are bringing out the insights on what the pathways to improved wellbeing have been.

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Link to Aultbea Stories Padlet where you can find out where our singing group and Over the Hill arose from 

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Link to Aultbea Stories Padlet where you can find out where our singing group and Over the Hill arose from 

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Welcome to our singing group's digital space

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Welcome to our singing group's digital space

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Think of this as our group's online notice board. It's here you'll find online copies of the lyrics to songs we've sung or might sing and recordings to help with practising the songs at home or in the car.
You can share songs or ideas for pieces to practice and perform here - links to You tube or Spotify for instance.
You can find and post performance videos or recordings here too.
Please avoid sharing things that are not reasonably related to our group, it's aims of having fun, maintaining our wellbeing and enriching our communities.