The theme of this year’s Family Literacy Day is Sing for Literacy. Canadians will be gathering together this week to participate in group sing-alongs at Family Literacy Day events in their communities.
If you’ve resolved to become a better singer, the good news is that everyone can sing and that everyone can improve their singing and performance abilities.
Educational television would never be the same after the first broadcast of Sesame Street on November 10th, 1969 (sponsored by the letters W, S, & E and the numbers 2 & 3). 40 years later, Sesame Street is still going strong and is reinventing itself with a new opening and format on today’s show.
If you’ve always wanted to learn how to sing, but didn’t know where to start, now is a good time to look for group singing lessons that will start in September, or choirs that are recruiting for the upcoming season. Read more »
Whether you’re singing Happy Birthday to someone at the office or singing along with the radio in your car, it never hurts to try to sound a bit better. Here are five easy-to-learn tips to improve your singing today.
Singing karaoke for the first time can be scary and you might not think a “How to” guide on singing karaoke is necessary, especially if you’re not much of a karaoke fan. But even those who don’t actively seek karaoke can often get roped into it, and you’ll be better off making the experience as painless (read: embarrassing train wreck-free) as possible. Here are some basic tips you might not have thought of, to make your karaoke experience much more enjoyable for both you and your audience.
Here’s a wonderful podcast from CBC’s DNTO (Definitely Not the Opera) that aired a few weeks ago about why we sing. The host, Sook-Yin Lee and guests, interview people on the street, in hospitals, professional musicians, an anthropologist and others to discover why we sing even if we can’t sing well.
