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Bridgend Singing Group
Our Singing Group are back but now online until circumstances allow otherwise
It currently meets every Tuesday 5-6pm. If you are thinking of giving it a go best to contact us and check they aren't having a break.

Background
In February 2019 the Bridgend Singing Group formed following a 10-session trial kickstarted by our Acorn Fund in 2018. Thanks to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo Fund, Bridgend Farmhouse was able to host a series of 19 two-hour afternoon workshops as well as a Singing Weekend run by Edinburgh-based facilitators Darla Eno and Tamsin Wates.
Over six months the group expanded and solidified, attracting a wide range of people and exploring a diverse repertoire of songs. Participants, some with little prior experience of singing were introduced to a wide range of singing material, from a Lebanese lament, to a Gaelic fairie song, an olde English midsummer song, an ‘afropean’ rhythmic song, rock ‘n’ roll, and a Bulgarian courting song.


The original project culminated in ‘Bridgend Sings’, a weekend exploring community and home through song ​consisting of two 4-hour workshops, with a Georgian-style celebratory ‘supra’ feast on the Saturday  and a shared lunch prepared by our kitchen volunteers.

On the Sunday, there was the opportunity for participants to write ​lyrics which reflected their experience of the weekend workshop at the farmhouse which were then collated to create one song, in which everyone’s lyrics were sung by a chorus of voices. Some of the lyrics included:
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Participants singing their own lyrics
On the Sunday, there was the opportunity for participants to write ​lyrics which reflected their experience of the weekend workshop at the farmhouse which were then collated to create one song, in which everyone’s lyrics were sung by a chorus of voices. Some of the lyrics included:
Home is where the heart is and it's here today
Bridgend offers each one with love, joyous harmony
Singing in community, eating a lovingly prepared feast with good people
Space to talk, space to grieve, space to hear the birds sing
Receiving healing through music, feeling so much gratitude
Time to live in deep truth, in faith we know the way

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    • Our Vision
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    • Our Board
    • Looking for Directors Trustees
    • Treasurer
    • Our Team >
      • Cris Thacker
      • Roz Angus
      • Zoe Murdoch
      • Kevin Morrison
      • Gill Curran
      • Marta Brzosko
      • Khalid Bashir
      • Darla Eno
      • Tona Soto
    • Our Projects >
      • Bothy Build
      • Community History >
        • PWF Booklet
        • PWF Interviews
        • PWF Videos
        • PWF Museum
        • PWF Images
      • Pride of Place >
        • Craigmillar Castle Park Map
        • Pop-Project-Board
        • Pop-A-Walk-in-the-woods
        • Pop-Geology
        • Pop-Cameron-toll
        • Pop-JS-poem
        • Pop-History-and-WIAT
        • Pop-Faery-doors
      • Singing Group
      • BIG Acorn Fund >
        • BIG Acorn Projects
      • Previous Projects >
        • Farmhouse Renovation >
          • Workshops Build
        • Bamboo Bikes
        • Real Fast Food
        • Community Cafe 2018
        • Community Cafe 2017
        • Cosmetics Group
        • Food Group 2017
        • Bike Workshop 2017
        • Garden Shelter
        • Artist in Residence
        • Forest Skills
    • Working Groups
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      • Our Queen's Award
      • Community Consultation 2020-21
      • Bridgend Past and Present
      • Annual Report 2021
      • 2020 AGM
      • COVID-19 Food Resilience Response Project final report
      • A community-led emergency response to food precarity
      • Senscot Bulletin May 20
      • healthandcarescotland May 20
      • Bellacaledonia May 20
      • ScotsMag
      • HolyroodMagazine
      • Our Journey
      • Our older documents >
        • AGM2020
        • AGM2019
        • AGM2018
        • AGM2017
    • General Archives >
      • Community Share Issue >
        • Shares FAQs
      • BIG Opening Party
      • Former Staff >
        • Eric Fernandez-Baca
        • Stevie Palmer
        • Sharon Stoddart
        • Wing Yee Li
        • Lynn Houmdi
        • Judy Paul
        • Donna McArdle
        • Hilary Lowson
        • Carol Stobie
        • Graham Harper
      • News and Events
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      • Other Archived >
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        • Our Pictures-2015-2017
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