Worthing Local Group “At Home” Session – Wednesday 7th April 2021

7.30pm start if attending the Zoom meeting

Hello everyone. Following on from previous ‘At Home’ sessions we have decided to carry on with these sessions until an opportunity to meet up in person arises. We are slowly getting closer to meet up but we will need to hold on a bit longer with the ZOOM or AT HOME Worthing sessions.

If you are unable to join by ZOOM, or you feel it is not for you, then please join us in spirit by singing the same songs.

The song list below is adaptable to a Zoom or a no-Zoom session. Either way, all singers welcome – and welcome to our April Zoom. It is not designed to take over from Tina’s wonderful sessions, but is there to supplement our Worthing sessions which are currently based around singing alone in our own homes (but at the same time). It would be really good it we were to do some interaction with each other which will lead into small, local, socially-distanced groups when the current climate eventually changes, for those who may wish to.

Though I’m not musically gifted like a lot of our members, I am content to put my IT skills to the use of the group so we can keep these sessions going. Therefore I have set up an initial Zoom Session for Wednesday 7th April at 7.30pm. Currently Zoom sessions are free as long as I keep them below 40 minutes in duration; however we can have two sessions back to back. Therefore I would suggest that once we get this one running, we have a 35-minute session, followed by a coffee/beer break of 5 minutes, followed by another half-hour session for those that want to. All is subject to change. To log into the session use the following details below.

Join Zoom Meeting
Wednesday 7th April 2021 at 7.30pm
Meeting ID Number: 553 923 1152
Password: SDFSApr21
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/5539231152?pwd=U2JKc2U2Y3FUamgrcHZleTMxMVdKZz09

The following is a list of proposed songs which we can pull from.

• Thousands or More
• Brisk Young Ploughboy (Lead requested please)
• Country Life
• Lark in the Morning
• Life of a Man
• A Smuggler's Song (individual verses – volunteers required)
• The Fields Lie Silent
• Rosebuds in June
• The Magpie (Lady volunteer please)
• Where Stormy Winds Do Blow
• Twanky Dillo

If you would like to bring along an individual song, poem or story then feel free to so do. If you let me know at the beginning then I will ensure we fit it in.

Dave W

Lewes Virtual Session – Tuesday 16th March 2021

**NOTE EARLIER START TIME FOR THE SUNDAY ZOOM**

Hello again singers in Lewes or anywhere else. As we reach the anniversary of lockdown starting, first vaccinations continue to be rolled out for many people, so things appear to be heading in the right direction, however slowly. Here are my “sing along at home” suggestions for this month. No new songs to learn but I have attached recordings HERE of the two Spring songs which were new last year and have not yet had a public airing. All the other recordings can be found in the previous months.

Anyone reading this anywhere is also invited to join us to sing and chat at one or both of the following Zoom sessions where those present will decide how we use the time.

TUESDAY 16TH 7:30PM
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82819627897?pwd=VVZjL3E0a3BMQUFpUVNkMk5lVTF4QT09
Meeting ID: 828 1962 7897
Passcode: 779314

SUNDAY 21ST 1:30PM (NB earlier time than previously as I have another Zoom at 4pm)
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84736383945?pwd=azlabmx2aDhkTEhxVkVvaWxlOFk5QT09
Meeting ID: 847 3638 3945
Passcode: 027485

• Let’s warm up with Ale Glorious Ale and Country Life.
• Next two songs looking towards Spring since, while we might still yet have snow in April, at the moment there is a decent amount of sunshine and blue sky – When Spring Comes In and Birds On The Spray.
• Leading us into the break, a couple of songs about outdoor rural occupations – The Brisk Young Ploughboy and The Turmut Hoer.
• With replenished beer/wine/juice/water/coffee or other beverage of choice on hand, we’ll sing two Kipling songs – Oak, Ash and Thorn followed by A Smuggler’s Song (in which Lewes singers have regularly heard me launch into “Five and Twenty Blackbirds” but I've highlighted “PONIES” on my wordsheet now so hopefully I will get it right this time).
• Two songs follow with birds in their titles and love as their theme – The Lark In The Morning and The Turtle Dove.
• To bring our (sadly still virtual) session to an end we will finish with very old favourites Pleasant and Delightful and East Sussex Drinking Song.

Best wishes, solidarity, golier etc!

Tina