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Come my Sisters, Come my Brothers
Associated NVPN member - Nick Prater
A Teacher’s resource for classes and choirs of children aged 7 - 18, consisting of the full scores for 83 songs, from 1 voice to full choir, plus 3 CDs and a contents booklet. This book comes out of Nick’s experience as a Teacher in Steiner schools. Photocopy permission included.
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Rickety Tickety
Associated NVPN member - Ali Burns
25 great chilren's songs for starting to sing in harmony. Aimed at upper primary/ S1 or Keystage 2 and 3. Also good songs for adult choirs - warm ups etc. Comes with 2 cds: 1 audio cd of all tracks and 1 cd rom of mp3 files; piano parts; voice only tracks; backing tracks. Can be used with an interactive whiteboard.
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Singing Our Greetings and Farewells
Associated NVPN member - Sarah Pennington
This CD is one of a series of three workdiscs offering parts for a wide range of simple songs and chants which can be used at a range of occasions.Singing Our Greetings and Farewells is a collection of 43 songs and chants from around the world for honouring beginnings and endings, and celebrating opening and closing of gatherings. The section on welcomes includes 'ice-breakers' and fun warm-ups as well as others from different folk and spiritual traditions.
This CD has been created by Natasha Hood (Celebrant and Interfaith Minister) and Karine Polwart (well-known Scottish singer-songwriter). Using only their natural voices, the songs are presented with the tune and harmony parts for each one sung separately before being put together.
The songs are drawn from many traditions; they are ‘holy, silly, sacred, embracing and heart-warming’. The CD is professionally recorded to a high quality and comes with a booklet setting out all the words.
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Singing the Cycle of Our Lives
Associated NVPN member - Sarah Pennington
This CD is one of a series of three workdiscs offering parts for a wide range of simple songs and chants which can be used at a range of occasions.The 45 songs and chants on this double CD collection honour and celebrate key life events and transitions, including birth, marriage and death.
This collection is drawn from a wealth of spiritual and folk traditions. It is an ideal resource for use in the creation of ceremony, as well as a magnificent collection of songs to be enjoyed in their own right. The songs are both joyous and reflective and include many that are easy to learn as well as some that are more complex.
This CD has been created by Natasha Hood (Celebrant and Interfaith Minister), Sarah Pennington (Natural Voice Practitioner) and Karine Polwart (well-known Scottish singer-songwriter). Using only their natural voices, the songs are presented with the tune and harmony parts for each one sung separately before being put together.
The songs are drawn from many traditions; they are ‘holy, silly, sacred, embracing and heart-warming’. The CD is professionally recorded to a high quality and comes with a booklet setting out all the words.
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Singing the Day and the Seasons
Associated NVPN member - Sarah Pennington
This CD is one of a series of three workdiscs offering parts for a wide range of simple songs and chants which can be used at a range of occasions.Drawing on many different sources, this collection of 47 chants and songs takes us through the four seasons and some of their corresponding festivals (eg Christmas, Beltane, New Year), times of day (morning, evening, night) and includes a selection of meal-time graces and alternative birthday songs.
This CD has been created by Natasha Hood (Celebrant and Interfaith Minister) and Karine Polwart (well-known Scottish singer-songwriter). Using only their natural voices, the songs are presented with the tune and harmony parts for each one sung separately before being put together.
The songs are drawn from many traditions; they are ‘holy, silly, sacred, embracing and heart-warming’. The CD is professionally recorded to a high quality and comes with a booklet setting out all the words.
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Slap Happy: How to Play World-Beat Rhythms With Just Your Body and a Buddy (book with CD)
Associated NVPN member - Betsy Sansby
Slap Happy is for kids of all ages. It turns drum rhythms into body rhythms you can step, clap, and slap with a buddy. Right from the start, you'll be learning traditional dance rhythms from West Africa and the Caribbean: Kuku from Guinea, Sunguru Bani from Mali, Kpegisu from Ghana, Bomba from Puerto Rico, and Conga from Cuba. And you can hear how every pattern sounds on the slap-along CD that comes with the book. You can do Slap Happy in pairs or in groups, indoors or out, at home or at school. If you're a parent, it's a great way to do something fun and educational with your kids that doesn't require any previous musical training. If you're a music teacher, you can use Slap Happy to give your students a hands-on experience of world rhythms without having to buy any instruments. It's physical, it's funky, and it's fun!
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Song of the Month
The Cotelands Croydon Lullaby
The words and tune for this song were written by the young mums (age 14-16yrs) as part of CRISP's Positive Activities for Young People project with teenage mums and mums-to-be.
Teenage mums get a bad reputation in the UK but this wonderful specialist Pupil Referral Unit has places for 40 babies, and most mums become responsible mothers, retaining care of their infants and going on to achieve well educationally.
For more info please contact CRISP Co-ordinator Catherine Pestano: catherine@naturalvoice.net
Get Our Songbook!
This inspiring compilation of warm-up songs written by NVPN members all over the UK comes as a book with 3 CDs of the separate parts for 65 songs. There are songs to suit all groups, and they pay tribute to the hugely rich diversity of our expanding Network. You can find more details of To Grace The Earth on our Resources page.