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