Sandra Smith
The Hatchling Flight - Sunday evening- part 2
Over night The Hatchling had grown in size - she obviously had slept very well after our lullabies! The new, huge, 21ft adult Hatchling...
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Sandra Smith
- Aug 31, 2021
- 4 min
The Hatchling - a magnificent weekend! Part 1 Saturday
Where to begin with what turned out to be THE weekend to be in Plymouth. The Hatchling team had managed to completely renegotiate the...
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Sandra Smith
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
We're singing together again!
From April, we've been meeting in person. Firstly in small ensembles again, due to Gov't guidelines and then from May, as a full choir!...
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Sandra Smith
- Feb 20, 2021
- 2 min
Lockdown the end is near!
Being in lockdown through winter is not the easiest of things for any of us to do - thank goodness we have our choir - it helps keep us...
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Sandra Smith
- Nov 21, 2020
- 2 min
Homegrown Harmony
We couldn't have expected the response we have had from our Homegrown Harmony project, so far! The charities are thrilled with how much...
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Sandra Smith
- Nov 8, 2020
- 2 min
The Launch!
So we've kicked off in style with our Homegrown Harmony project! What a response we had - donations were flying in, even from the...
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Sandra Smith
- Oct 11, 2020
- 2 min
Spot us singing!
If you find us singing, let us know via social media - we've never been so public in our rehearsals! We are having a brilliant time -...
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Sandra Smith
- Sep 23, 2020
- 2 min
Zooming away and 'Ensemble project!'
Well, we are still on Zoom every week but we are also singing in real life!!! Oh my, life feels better already! Over the summer holidays...
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Sandra Smith
- Jun 8, 2020
- 3 min
Lockdown Blues
So...it's been a long time, nearly 3 months since we sang together. We last sang on March 17th and decided the risk was too great. It was...
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Sandra Smith
- Mar 1, 2020
- 4 min
St Ives September Festival
PHOTOS BY ANDREW LESTER AND SANDRA BARRETT September started beautifully - we were back rehearsing right at the start of the month,...
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Sandra Smith
- Nov 17, 2019
- 4 min
Encores and standing ovations
I'm sitting here on a chilly November day, realising I hadn't updated the blog since last May! We were in a constant whirlwind of...
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Sandra Smith Director
- May 20, 2019
- 3 min
Our 1st EP - with Heart and Soul funding
Our sponsors have funded our EP
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Sandra Smith
- May 15, 2019
- 5 min
Christmas 2018
We started off our winter tour with another collaboration with Show Of Hands and Chris Hoban. Show of Hands were performing at the...
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Sandra Smith Director
- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Sidmouth Folk Festival 2018
Our final concert of our summer season and we were ready to perform our socks off! It was really exciting to be given a performance slot...
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Sandra Smith Director
- Sep 17, 2018
- 2 min
Wyvern Barracks July 4th, 5th & 6th 2018
The sun had arrived and summer was here! I mention this, as we were singing outside, under stage lights, on the hottest days of the year,...
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Sandra Smith Director
- Jul 19, 2018
- 2 min
Sell out concerts summer 2018
What a summer season it has been! I don't think we knew we could work any harder, but we added recording our single, to 8 concert dates!...
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Sandra Smith Director
- May 10, 2018
- 3 min
2018 - New Singers, New Songs, New Look!
With our new singers firmly imbedded into our choir for the Xmas concerts, we were very sad to lose our 2 new basses. One found his love...
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Sandra Smith
- Jan 23, 2018
- 2 min
Winter Concerts 2017
With the initial gigs with Show of Hands down, we concentrated on our own set of songs. We had 4 more gigs to do before the end of term -...
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Sandra Smith
- Dec 3, 2017
- 2 min
Autumn term - New singers and Show Of Hands Sanctuary Tour!
We had auditioned in July for new voices and we were really chuffed to have found 2 new basses to balance our expanding choir! One came...
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Sandra Smith
- Dec 3, 2017
- 4 min
Sidmouth Folk Festival, a personal dream!
After the excitement of the Royal Albert Hall - and getting credits in the press reviews as well, we approached our wonderful and local,...
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