Second-year student and conductor of Sing!,  Matt Bamford, previews Sing!’s next gig and a new community venture…

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Tomorrow, Friday 23rd March, the residents of Connors House in Canterbury City Centre will be treated to a short performance by the student vocal group Sing!

Abbeyfield Connors House specialises in dementia care and provides accommodation for forty-six older people. Tomorrow evening, the members of Sing! will convene in Canterbury City Centre and will head towards Connors House.

We are lucky in that they have a piano (which they ensure me is tuned!) and as a result of that we won’t need to carry a keyboard through the streets of Canterbury. We will then perform five or six songs, including numbers originally performed by Queen, Amy Winehouse and Michael Bublé.

Part of community singing is that we will then spend time, hopefully over a nice cup of tea, chatting to the residents.

As the Sing! conductor, I think it is really important to allow everybody to enjoy the music-making that goes on at the University, including those who are less able to attend our concerts. So, on this occasion, we decided to take the music to the residents of Connors House and hopefully this will be the first of a series of community concerts.

Watch this space for more information about how the evening went!