If You Can Talk You Can Sing!

POSTED IN OLD BLOG ON 20th MAY 2013

Wow. Its not very often that you can be totally in awe of a group of people for there love and passion of singing but today was one of those moments.

I was at a place called Kala Sangnam, a fabulous arts centre in Bradford which has been set up and run by the asian community of the town. The whole building is alive with colour, beautiful murals and the sound of a very special group of people. I had been invited to meet with a wonderful choir who call themselves 'Sing From The Heart'. The group is a 'Glee' style singing group made up of adults with learning and physical disabilities who all share a passion for singing and performing.

Along with the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Bradford we were treated to hits from Adele, Brian Adams, Boyzone and I even got the opportunity to perform a duet of 'Edelweiss'.

These singers struggle to converse and express emotions in everyday life but here they not only listened to the music, kept in time with the track and sang for us but they turned that singing into a proper performance and it was evident from the size of the smiles on their faces that this was pure fun.

The group have one motto and that is 'If you can talk, then you can sing' and they certainly can do that. Thank you to Maralyn for the invite and whatever I can do to help and push this brilliant idea I'll do.

Which ultimately brings me to beg, borrow or steal from anyone reading this. The group is only in its infancy so can still not get a charity status but they have been very kindly allowed use of the room at Kala Sangnam from Disability Services and also been lent a PA system from Pro Audio, however a lot of time is wasted in each session loading CD's, CD's not reading, CD's jumping. I want to see them 'going digital' so I'm making an appeal on their behalf. If anyone has an old laptop/netbook they would kindly donate to the group I will upload the many thousands of tracks I have and all relevant performance software so that they can perform new songs much quicker and easier.

For more info please pop along to their facebook page at - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sing-from-the-Heart/485766128136832?fref=ts