Music is my therapy Singing and enjoying music or simply taking part in, or surrounding yourself with music (whether you’d consider yourself a musician or not) will absolutely have a positive impact on your life and on the stress in your life. We will ALL experience stress in varying levels throughout our lives and I […]
Author archives: Caroline Redman Lusher
BBC’s Proms in the Park – the post-show high!
BBC’s Proms in the Park – the post-show high! On Saturday 8th September 2018 the Rock Choir Vocal Team, over 10,000 Rock Choir Members and I, performed with the BBC Concert Orchestra live on Radio 2 and BBC’s Red Button to an audience of 40,000 at the BBC Proms in the Park concert in Hyde Park, […]
1 FAMILY – 1 CHOIR
1 FAMILY – 1 CHOIR! With only a few weeks until we open the BBC Proms Event in Hyde Park the excitement is most definitely mounting in the team but also in the online activity of the Rockies with comments and conversations as they focus on their travel-planning and logistics! The last time we came […]
Proms in the Park. 1 week to go!
Proms in the Park. 1 week to go! “You won’t be doing your weekly shop this time next week, will you?! Someone will have to do it for you!” said a voice just behind me. I looked around, holding a slightly green bunch of bananas. The Sainsbury’s self-checkout ‘trolley only’ aisle was busy but then […]
Connecting emotionally with a song
Connecting emotionally with a song… …in this case – ‘Human’ by Rag n Bone Man! Human (Rag n Bone Man) is a slightly different song to normal for us to be learning and performing in Rock Choir. It was/is a huge hit and described as “raw” and “honest”. It’s a departure from the more gentle romantic […]
I became a lounge-singer at 15
I became a lounge-singer at 15 years old… My first professional singing engagement was as a singer-pianist at a restaurant called JB’s near Birmingham airport. It was 1989 and my sister, Liz, had taken me to its nightclub where diners would go to after they’d finished their meal. As part of the venue’s regular schedule, […]
I’m still in love with Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox…
I’m still in love with Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox… WOBG features various rhythmic and musical motifs and it was these that I explored and untangled from the track to re-build again for Rock Choir. When I was an A-level teacher I reverted to this song to find a way of breaking down […]
When I first fell in love with Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox…..
When I first fell in love with Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox… Walking on Broken Glass by Annie Lennox has provided me with much inspiration over the years and has been a key feel-good performance song for everyone in RC since I introduced it in 2008/9. It never fades and like so many […]
