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The MuSinGer – New Features Update

Hello Everyone! Just a quick post to let you know that there are some new features here at The MuSinger:

Singers, you must have a purpose

When you sing, do you think about why you are doing it? It could be just because we love to make a joyful noise, or that we want to improve our technique, we want to hit a particular note as accurately as possible, or just because we are happy to be alive. We don’t want…

Where the lost things go

Have you ever wondered where yesterday went, or even the last few minutes? How about last year, or last decade? What has happened to the times you shared with people you knew? Where did they go? Is there a special place where memories are kept alive? Is anyone lost to you or someone you miss,…

Losing our sky

I am looking around and can see the sky – vast and open before me. The shape of the clouds can sometimes tell a story. I can see one that looks like an angel, and another like a cross. The clouds I like best are tinged with a salmon pink colour on hot summer evenings,…

I can’t be you

My suburb is popular with the ‘trendies’. Some of those who live and work here often wear designer clothes, would never hang out with older people, display immaculate hairstyles, and often swear in public as easily as sneezing. They congregate in the fashionable bars where no one over the age of 35 exists. It never…

Singer beginner? Start with your head!

Everyone is musical and can be a singer. We all have music in us – to some it just comes more easily, strongly, and naturally, while others have to work harder to find it, but it is there as part of our souls – that is what I believe. And you don’t have to be…

Spit spot! Why a Mary Poppins perspective positively pleases

I recently saw Mary Poppins Returns and while today’s post will not specifically review this movie in too much detail (hint: go and see it for yourself!), the cast and lead characters are wonderful – particularly Emily Blunt as Mary Poppins and Lin-Manuel Miranda as Jack the lamplighter. From the opening scene you have the…