{"id":1124,"date":"2024-01-12T01:22:43","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T01:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.your-web-preview.co.uk\/?page_id=1124"},"modified":"2024-02-13T10:49:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T10:49:01","slug":"the-choir","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/the-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"The Choir"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Music has always been a significant part of my life, particularly singing. During the 10 years that I lived in France, I co-founded a choir and later a thriving music theatre company so I could get my singing fix. When we moved back to the UK in 2018 and settled in Sevenoaks, finding a new musical community was a priority!<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Being retired, I\u2019m one of the older members of the choir \u2013 the wide age range of our members is great, it\u2019s a real cross section of our community. I\u2019ve been involved with the choir since early 2014, at that time it was part of a network of choirs called Singing Nation. We became Sevenoaks Sings in 2021 and now we\u2019re an independent choir run by its members.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Like a lot of people, I sang in the school choir many years ago and though I got a lot of pleasure from singing I didn\u2019t keep it up as I grew older. I had never learnt to read music and didn\u2019t feel like a \u2018musician\u2019 so even though I did still love it, my singing became confined to solo journeys in the car and lullabies to the children<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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I have always loved singing. As a child, I was obsessed with the TV show \u2018Stars in their Eyes\u2019. I loved the idea of getting dressed up and singing my favourite song: \u201cI Can See Clearly Now\u201d. Looking back, my 9 year old self was just too young, too white and too female to be a convincing Johnny Nash!<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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I have been in love with singing since a very young age- from starring in nativities in primary school to earning a degree in performing arts as a young adult.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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When I was a teenager growing up in Toronto, I was invited to join a city wide choir of school children. At one of the rehearsals, <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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Music was a significant feature in my childhood and we had masses of records and a huge record player at home.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t

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I moved to Sevenoaks with my husband Ben in 2015. Moving to a new place can be daunting, and we looked for ways to meet people and have fun. <\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/article>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meet the Choir<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1124","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1124\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sevenoakssings.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}