Nimue Brown posted: " Recently I had the opportunity in Gloucester to do something I greatly enjoy - getting people singing. The venue was a church - no longer in use as a church. I had support from Tom and James. There's only so much planning I can do for this sort of" Druid Life
Recently I had the opportunity in Gloucester to do something I greatly enjoy - getting people singing. The venue was a church - no longer in use as a church. I had support from Tom and James.
There's only so much planning I can do for this sort of event because there's no knowing how it will play out, how much input people will need or how fast they will move as a group. This was an amazing, responsive group who dug in enthusiastically, so we got to do a lot of different things. Including a really full and rich rendition of my Three Drops of Inspiration. Hearing a lot of people all singing something I've written is an emotionally intense sort of experience, heart lifting and rewarding.
We also did some playing with vowels and sounds. This is something I learned to do in a workshop many years ago and it is my understanding that it comes from a Tibetan chanting tradition. It's very simple, you move between notes and vowels, and you just let it happen. The sounds that emerge are always striking. It tends to have a spiritual feeling to it regardless of context, but to do it in a church turned out to be especially effective.
It felt like a meaningful offering to the building itself. This wordless, soulful sound coming from a group of people and being sung to the church itself - it was mostly participants, not audience. The church has no doubt heard many hymns in its time, although not recently. It felt like a good thing to have done.
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