At the October Community Singing Brian Greed chose our regular Book 1 for the first session. This has a great lot of Sing a Long songs which everyone enjoyed.

For the second session we used Sammy Song Book No 2 which has several Australian, Irish and Scottish songs which everyone knew.

At the end of the morning everyone gave Brian a spontaneous round of applause to thank him for his great playing of all the songs.

The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 24th November at 10am at the Hub at Cooinda. All welcome.

Margaret Jenkins  

From our photo shoot in April!  

At Community Singing held on Thursday 29 September Brian Greed brought along the Blue Song Book which is used by Cooinda residents. The benefit of this song book was that it had slightly larger print, and had 122 songs in it, some of which we had not found in other song books.

Everyone who attended gave Brian a round of applause at the end for his wonderful playing of the piano for the group. Also thank you to Brian for organising these song books for the morning.

The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 27 October at 10am at the Hub at Cooinda. All welcome.
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Margaret Jenkins 

Brian Greed chose our Regular Song book No 3 for the first session of Community Singing in August. We had not used this book before, and everyone really enjoyed the variety of songs in it. For novelty “The Mickey Mouse Song” seemed to appeal as well as many old favourites like “Love Letters in the Sand”. For the second session Brian chose Sammy’s Song Book No 1, the songs from it being quite different but also very enjoyable.

We welcomed three new people at Community Singing this month, Carol, Tony and Dorrie. We hope they enjoyed themselves and come again.

Best wishes to Gloria Banks who had a short stay in Wangaratta Hospital and is now recovering at home. We hope to see you back with us soon.
 
The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 22 September at 10am at the Hub at Cooinda.

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Margaret Jenkins 

It was pleasing to see members of the audience coming up to Brian Greed after Community Singing and congratulating him on his playing of the piano. Brian does a wonderful job playing all the songs from memory, needing only a reminder of the key a  particular song is in before he starts playing it.

In July Brian chose Sammy’s Song Book No 2 for the first session, followed by the Tram Book of Songs for the second session.

The group is evolving and feeling comfortable with each other, and we enjoyed the odd story about a song, or a reference to there being another possible verse of another song. But everyone participated and enjoyed themselves, which is what Community Singing is all about.

The next session of Community Singing will be on Thursday 25 August 2022 at 10am in the Hub at Cooinda. All welcome.
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Margaret Jenkins 

Community Singing in the warm Hub at Cooinda was enjoyed by all who attended. We were amazed by Brian Greed’s ability to play such a variety of songs without any music, and to keep the vocal cords of everyone there well exercised.

Brian chose songs from our regular Song Book 1 for the first session and followed this in the second session with songs from Sammy’s Song Book No 1. The participants seemed to really appreciate the variety of Irish, Scottish and Australian songs in Sammy’s Song Book.

The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 28 July at 10am in the Hub at Cooinda. All welcome.
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Margaret Jenkins 

Brian Greed chose our regular Song Book No 2 for the first part of community Singing in May. This book has a variety of songs such as “Carolina in the Morning” and “Click go the Shears” which were enjoyed by all.

The second session used the Tram Book of Songs which has a different group of songs. Brian’s instant recall of each song means that it is amazing how many songs can be fitted into Community Singing each time we meet.

The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 23 June at 10am at the Hub in Cooinda. All welcome.  
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Margaret Jenkins   

The weather may be getting cooler but the enthusiasm for Community Singing is certainly there.

Brian Greed chose songs from our regular Book 1 for the first part of Community Singing and followed it with a selection from Sammy’s Song Book No 1. We all enjoyed the variety of songs, many old favourites, some with an Irish, Scottish or Australian background. But all sung with great gusto and all thoroughly enjoyed.

Everyone gave Brian a round of applause at the end to show their appreciation for his wonderful effort on the piano.

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We also had a visit from Bev Lee who stayed for some of the second half, and told us that she enjoyed the singing.
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Margaret Jenkins

At the March meeting of Community Singing Brian Greed chose Sammy’s Song Book No 2 for the first session. Brian accompanied this session on the organ which is always a great sound.

For the second session Brian had a new Song Book which he had found on a boat cruise in the South Island of New Zealand. For this session Brian accompanied us on the piano.

It was interesting that on our way out of the Hub a visitor to Cooinda complimented Brian on the music which had come from the Hub that morning.  He told Brian that the music had been enjoyed by other residents of Cooinda, and not just those attending Community Singing. 

The next Community Singing will be on Thursday 28th April at 10am at the Hub.
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Margaret Jenkins

Community Singing in February had the usual relaxed atmosphere and was enjoyed by everyone there.

In the first segment Brian Greed used Sammy’s Song Book No 1 and accompanied us on the organ.

After morning tea Brian switched to the piano and used Brian’s Little Song Book which has a completely different group of songs.

We are all amazed at how Brian recalls each song by just telling him the name of the song and the key it is in. Well done Brian!

The next Community Singing will be held on Thursday 24th March 2022 at 10am at the Hub in Cooinda.
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Margaret Jenkins