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Voices for Life - 2024 Impact Report
Tessa Armstrong presents a newly published impact report on the outstanding work of Voices for Life.
Feb 252 min read


Creative Health Review - implications for Singing for Health Practitioners
The National Centre for Creative Health (NCCH) and the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Arts, Health and Wellbeing (APPG AHW) launched...
Jan 16, 20246 min read


HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SERIES: Right at Home
Liz Young, Business Development & Marketing Manager at homecare provider Right at Home, describes how singing has become a valued part of...
Apr 4, 20232 min read


HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SERIES: The Cheyne Gang - Sing to Breathe
Practice Nurse Pauline Waugh describes a research programme which led to her co-founding a highly successfully singing for breathing...
Apr 4, 20236 min read


HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SERIES: Nursing and Arts & Health
Sonia Price, Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing and Arts & Health at Canterbury Christ Church University, describes her 'two heads' as a...
Apr 4, 20239 min read


INTERNATIONAL SERIES: Making worlds collide
Anupa Paul - voice coach, singing performance coach, choral trainer and researcher, based in Chennai, India - talks about her developing...
Apr 4, 20236 min read


INTERNATIONAL SERIES: Out of the Blues
Australian jazz singer Melissa Forbes describes her route into research and Singing for Health practice, in particular her work with...
Apr 4, 20234 min read


The Healing Power of Singing; Practice-Research
Abigail Mann-Daraz - practitioner, researcher and Singing for Health Network Ambassador - talks about her work, including specialisms in...
Apr 4, 20235 min read


Getting to know the community behind ‘Carers’ Voices’ – a choir for unpaid carers
Sarah Summers talks about her research. I am the Musical Director of Carers’ Voices, which is a choir for both current and former unpaid...
Apr 4, 20235 min read


INTERNATIONAL SERIES: Australian Singing for Health research
How are the connections between singing and social connectedness, mental health and wellbeing understood in Australia? We asked...
Jan 9, 20235 min read


Singing together online -is it worth it?
Alan Boxer shares the results of his survey into online group singing and its impact on his own practice. My background I’m a choir...
Dec 5, 20223 min read


From the ground up
Maria Soriano describes her experience of writing the new framework document for the Sing to Live, Live to Sing Singing for Health and...
Oct 26, 202113 min read


Something Inside So Strong
Soprano, Musical Director, and Vocal Coach Nicola Wydenbach offers a short case study about singing and mental health and her Mind and...
Aug 31, 20211 min read


Focussing on the good things
Vicki Hodges shares her journey as a singing leader working in a range of health settings - particularly supporting cancer care - which...
Jul 28, 20214 min read


Sophie Garner
Emily Foulkes talks to Sophie Garner about her work and research on singing for people with brain injuries and her journey to becoming an...
Jul 5, 20211 min read


Resilience: Caring through Singing
Grenville Hancox presents a case study based on Monday Music, a singing for health group which has met weekly before and during the Covid...
Apr 20, 202116 min read


Sandeep Gurrapadi
Born in the USA and brought up India, Sandeep Gurrupadi is a classically trained tenor, composer and educator who has worked extensively...
Apr 10, 20215 min read


Singing for mental health during Covid
Duke of Edinburgh student Matilda Hart shares this blog piece about her experiences of volunteering at Arts and Minds, a Cambridge-based...
Mar 31, 20215 min read


How a small charity kept the nation smiling and singing through the Covid pandemic
After many years touring the world as a professional musician and producer, Shapeshifter's Artistic Director Alison Jones (pictured...
Mar 22, 20213 min read


The origins of Singing for Health
Dr Stephen Clift - Professor Emeritus at Canterbury Christ Church University, Visiting Professor at York St John University and...
Mar 22, 20216 min read


Singing for Health - Birmingham's Sufi Choir
Hamid Lea, trustee of the Zawiya Trust, explains how the formation of a Sufi singing group has exceeded all expectations in bringing...
Feb 23, 20213 min read


A Pocketful of Starlight- lighting the flame of hope through music
Irish songwriter, community musician and arts in health practitioner Sadhbh O'Sullivan reflects on the power of music to help people...
Feb 23, 20214 min read


Persistence is Key
Opera Singer Rachel Hynes shares her experiences of working as a singing practitioner within the health system Rachel, tell us a little...
Feb 22, 20216 min read


Measuring the Unmeasurable
Dave Camlin - musician, composer, music educator and researcher - explores the building up of a picture of group singing that captures...
Feb 22, 20215 min read
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