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Elizabeth Bacon (Project Manager on Snapshot Songs) interviews composer Stuart Hancock, conductor Peter Ash, and artists and facilitators Olivia Bradbury and Luke Crookes ahead of the first official Snapshot Songs rehearsal.
A big thank you to all our auditionees.
A very big thank you to all who came along to the taster workshops, and auditioned for Snapshot Songs.
Riffing on the zeitgeist
Snapshot Songs – The Next Best Thing from Only Connect on Vimeo.
Taking the theme of “The Next Best Thing” Only Connect members Temi Lateef, Michael VA O’Mara, Steven Fields and Sarah Eliza worked with Stuart and others at Only Connect to produce this epic. They received a standing ovation on both nights.
“Where’s the chicken…” – a blog post by the Snapshot Songs composer Stuart Hancock
In yesterday’s workshop at the Artizan Street Community Centre, E1, we de-constructed a chicken casserole…in song-form. The discussion had turned to the latest food trends in the capital, and elderly local estate resident Trudy O’Brien recounted her own gastronomic ‘snapshot’: namely, she ordered a chicken casserole at a nearby café, and didn’t quite get the homely stew she was after. This triggered a new snapshot song – composed by the group in the ensuing 10 minutes – that involved each of them taking on the role of an ingredient in Trudy’s casserole, coming together singing the refrain “Where’s the chicken…?!”
The London “zeitgeist”
As the workshops come and go, certain themes are coming up again and again from people about their experiences living in London that we wanted to share:
The first Snapshot Songs workshop is a resounding success.
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Workshops
The best way to find out more about Snapshot Songs is to come along to one of our taster sessions. You don’t need to prepare anything for this session, or have any previous experience, it’s just a chance to meet the team and have some fun creating music together. Continue reading
The Story So Far
Snapshot Songs involves over 150 singers, musicians and poets coming together to create and perform a collection of songs composed especially by the international award-winning composer Stuart Hancock. But how did this project come about? Continue reading