Workshops

Christine is now available as workshop and masterclass leader for festivals and concerts. Christine and her musical friends can offer a huge variety of workshops, and can suggest and tailor ideas for any event.

At present she delivers to a number of projects in her capacity as traditional music/song educator. these include her Christine Kydd's Singing For Fun workshops which aim primarily to set up singing groups within communities to encourage people to sing in larger groups, and to familiarize people with song material from many sources, including Scots and local material. Projects are running on Skye, Angus and Perthshire, and she also delivers to projects which she helped develop in the Central Belt. Arrangements she has made of some songs have travelled to other similar groups across the UK.

Educational Projects
Based on song, tradition, songmaking and voice. With Mats Melin, well-known authority on Scottish Dance, the current project offered can be tailored. This includes Step Dance, Social Dance, Songmaking and Singing for Dancing. It’s an exciting model, which has already been piloted around schools! It’s great for helping to fulfil many targets, including those for Expressive Arts. Read more about Ceilidhmakers (Adobe PDF).

Workshops and Masterclasses
Christine runs workshops and teaches one-to-one, looking at all aspects of voice production - speech, singing, breathing, resonance, articulation, projection, presentation skills, text and language exploration, phonetics, as well as working in less formal ways with groups using movement and relaxation techniques, fun and games to build vocal and physical confidence and awareness.

Examples of workshops include:

* voicework with songs from around the globe
* voicework with Scots song
* masterclasses (up to 8 people, individual tutoring with feedback from the group)
- ballads
- interpretation and vocal sound
- singing with accompaniment