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Noga Ritter is an eclectic singer-songwriter, band leader and workshop facilitator.

Originally from Israel, Noga studied at the Guildhall School of Music and LCCM and enjoys travelling the world with her music, learning from other cultures and creating exciting cultural collaborations - performing and singing in various languages and genres.

Noga works regularly for Live Music Now, Barbican Creative Learning and CREATE performing and leading workshops at special educational needs schools, hospitals and care homes. Noga is a facilitator at Music Action International leading song-writing workshops for children and refugees.

In 2021, she recorded her debut solo album, supported by The Arts Council England, a fusion of Hebrew Jazz with Afro-diasporic grooves featuring award-winning musicians such as Seckou Keita (kora), Byrown Wallen (trumpet), Tony Kofi (saxophone) and produced by Liran Donin.

Location: London

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Alex Etchart has run singing, theatre and multi-arts workshops for wellbeing and community building in 23 countries to hundreds of participants with their works being performed to thousands. Their unique blend of joyousness, nature connection and social justice is backed up by their deep experience working in their own London South American diaspora, in regions of conflict, in the LGBTQ+ community, with a dozen Universities, at global conferences and with governments departments alike.

Location: London

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Ben is a singer, composer and choir leader.

Ben is passionate about community singing and believes everyone has a voice. He works with groups of all ages and levels of ability, with the aim of getting as many people singing as he can. Ben leads several community choirs around London, as well as delivering singing projects and vocal workshops with groups all over the UK. Recent collaborations include leading choirs and running workshops at the Southbank Centre, Roundhouse, Aldeburgh Young Musicians, Birmingham Symphony Hall, Union Chapel, Barbican, Cadogan Hall and The Foundling Museum.

Ben’s teaching style is relaxed and inclusive, with the aim of supporting singers and sharing a love for singing.

Location: London

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Heather has over thirty years’ experience as a professional singer, and works increasingly as a teacher and choir-leader. She continues to enjoy performing as much as teaching and believes that one activity benefits the other.

Her glowing reputation for fine vocal arrangements, signature in her band The Bevvy Sisters work, has led her to work with Eddi Reader, Eliza Carthy and Dick Gaughan amongst many others, and is now a key element of her work with choirs. She is also the one-to-one vocal tutor to the students of Edinburgh University’s Bachelor of Music course.

She formed the now 100-strong Soundhouse Choir in Edinburgh in 2016 and has worked with countless other groups in a wide variety of settings.

During lockdown Heather arranged for a choir collaboration with multi-award winning singer and songwriter Karine Polwart and Oi Musica, as part of Music for COP26, which was recorded remotely and went viral.

She produces great results whilst keeping the emphasis firmly on fun.

Location: Edinburgh

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Kevin is a trans-disciplinary facilitator, performer and choir leader, blending singing with play, poetry and movement into a unique tonic of togetherness.

As well as running singing workshops and retreats, he runs a songwriting project where participants are assisted in writing and recording a song in just one day, which has built up a strong legacy since 2007. With both live and studio credits at professional level, Kevin plays the guitar, piano, drum kit, vocals and percussion, as well as being a proficient studio engineer.

From competitive gymnast to Oxford law graduate to award-winning songwriter, Kevin's magical mystery tour of life has led him to Steiner-Waldorf education, song-writing with refugees, hosting folk dance for London's Ceilidh Liberation Front and running singing retreats for hundreds of participants.

Location: Chew Magna

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Isolde is a singer, songwriter and teacher, who has been in love with a cappella harmony since she was a child.

She has been working with choirs and voices for over a decade and is passionate about bringing people together through the transformative power of vocal music. She currently runs Bristol's Murmuration Choir, and Rising Voices Recovery Choir, for Bristol Drugs Project, as well as studying for an MA in Music Composition at the University of Bristol.

Location: Bristol

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Emma is a singer, cellist and voice workshop facilitator.

From upbeat aerobics warm-ups to grounding breathing meditations, Emma's vocal workshops are varied yet always warm, light-hearted, inclusive and fun. She delights in sharing beautiful songs from around the world, traditional American/English folk tunes, as well as some soulful, contemporary surprises. As well as song-singing, Emma is in love with the melting pot magic of vocal improvisation and body percussion, and is fascinated by the dance between individual expression and collaborative creativity which these artforms inspire.

She is deeply inspired by and strongly believes in the nourishing and connecting power of gathering together in voice and song and is passionate about music-making being accessible for all. From her sessions, expect harmony songs from around the world, creative vocal exploration, and foot-stomping body percussion, all with a large dose of playfulness and joy.

Location: Leeds

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Bella has been teaching singing to people old, young (and everything in between) for the last ten years. As well as being a singing teacher, Bella is a trained actor, fully qualified voice coach and bona fide karaoke queen. She is passionate about helping people find their voice, and with an MFA in Voice Studies, she has an impressive toolkit. Bella teaches Voice at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts and Salford University.

She's been writing songs since she was 13 and has spent the last 20 years learning, teaching, writing comedy shows and singing for her supper. Little known fact is she was in a band with ON:SONG’s very own Greg called Wired To The Radio back in 2007-8 They’re still not sure the world is ready for them. Join Bella for sessions that celebrate the wonders of the HUMan voice!

Location: Liverpool

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Nick is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, arranger and teacher.

Having grown up surrounded by French folk music, Nick loves to draw upon the wide variety of music concepts he has encountered from different parts of the world. With his band Me and My Friends, he has toured throughout the UK and continental Europe. He is also currently the musical director for Matuki, a Gambian Afrobeat project, and the guitarist and backing singer for the Mellotones, a Bristol reggae outfit dedicated to reworking classic soul and disco.

Nick’s sessions aim to have a continuous sense of groove and movement throughout, whether building a folk ballad over a drone loop, or breaking down the harmonies to a disco classic.

Location: Bristol

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Aminita Francis is an Actor, Vocal Artist, Composer and Writer from London. Her musical and theatrical works have taken her from Battersea to Brazil, and accumulated her over a million streams online.

Her talents, originally nurtured by subsidised arts programmes, have come full circle as she now facilitates music and performance workshops for people young and old between her tour dates.

Recent work includes:
Critically Acclaimed 'Frankenstein How To Make a Monster' ( Battersea Arts Centre, International tour & BBC film) and 'The Immersive Great Gatsby' (West End)

Location: London

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Lynne has been singing folk/jazz/Brazilian music for nearly 30 years recording and performing with her jazz trio of Scotland’s top jazz musicians in the UK and Europe. She recently collaborated with jazz guitarist Malcolm McFarlane and a poet to create music with mindful healing vibes.

Since the beginning of her career there has been a personal connection with mindfulness and singing which has formed the foundation of her voice teaching skills and she is currently bringing her interest in these two things together and writing an MSc in Mindfulness. Her mindful approach to her long-time passion for teaching singing, creates a relaxed, inclusive and fun environment to allow people of all ages and abilities to find joy and freedom in their voices. Teaching experience includes Strathclyde University, Youth Music Initiative, Vocal Jazz workshops, singing retreats in Crete, BBC Choir of the Year, community acapella choirs and leading Jazz Choir Scotland.

Location: Glasgow

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Sophie is a choir leader, singer and theatre maker. Sophie deeply believes that singing has the power to bring people together. Her sessions and workshops are inclusive, welcoming and full of fun, the aim being for her participants to leave feeling energised and uplifted. She encourages all her participants to become confident singers as vocalists and performers, including those with little experience of singing. Her background is predominantly pop, creating colourful arrangements and loving a song mash up when the mood takes her.

She has worked as a choir leader for the past five years with London based Some Voices, developing and nurturing several of their choirs across London. She has led choir sessions and workshops both live and online, and has organised and led singing workshops with communities and businesses across the UK. As a singer she has sung at venues such as the Royal Festival Hall and The Troxy, and has supported singers such as Andreya Triana. She also runs On the Button, a socially engaged theatre company who bring science and art together through multimedia and live performance. As a musician and collaborator she is currently working on Wild Sounds, a project supported by the Genesis Foundation, which aims to give young people a sense of place and community through music and the natural world.

Location: Stroud

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Colombian guitarist, singer, choir leader and educator based in London. Since his arrival to the UK in 2006, Camilo has been active in the local music scene, initially with Latin American music projects only and gradually growing and getting involved in different projects, doing collaborations and exploring other types of repertoire.

In recent years, Camilo has been working more and more with Community/Group Singing projects, leading a variety of choirs such as the SOAS University "World Music Choir", the Lolchoir (LOL=Landscapes of Latin-America), Stapleton Singers, etc., and running workshops in festivals and with amateur and semi-professional choirs across the UK. Now he co-leads the London Folk Youth Ensemble at the 'Cecil Sharp House' with the EFDSS (English Folk Dance and Song Society).

In 2018 he launched a solo project called “Loop Explorations” where he creates soundscapes with a cappella structures based on Afro-Latin rhythms. During the 2020 lockdown, he collaborated with a team of artists writing an ARIA for the 12:42 project with the National Opera Studio, and kept busy leading online choirs with new members connecting from different continents.

Camilo has won several Latin UK Awards (LUKAS) for his work in sharing Latin American musical culture through various projects in the UK. He has played with a number of bands visiting stages across Britain as well Europe, Asia, Central and South America. His guitar playing has been featured in films, TV shows, theatre productions and documentaries.

Location: London