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RT @AdamAtkins: Come and be a trustee for us at @EX1magiccarpet and make a difference from day one.
Read MoreThe first joint newsletter for Amy Hopwood and The Songwriting Project comes out tomorrow! If you'd like a dollop of goodness direct to your mailbox, sign up here: https://t.co/jlUiVyM5T5
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RT @AmyHopwoodMusic: The face of someone who has just finished recording the vocals for song number thirteen! New music is most definitely…
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If you'd like to stay up to date with news from The Songwriting Project and Amy Hopwood, please sign up to the mailing list here: The first ever newsletter will be coming soon! https://t.co/42WVp5daX6
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@AgeUKDevon Thank you!
Read MoreRT @AmyHopwoodMusic: Around now, 5 years ago, I was nervously recording my first album at the brilliant JGE Studios. The most popular track…
Read MoreRT @AmyHopwoodMusic: It was off into the woods again yesterday to record birdsong as a backing for a traditional folk song. I tried last we…
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This is a lovely article about the joy of singing together 🙂
Read MoreI've just attended a great @CreativeLivesCL webinar on PR and Comms for community arts and now I'm full of ideas to get busy promoting the next Nature Songs project!
Read MoreRT @AmyHopwoodMusic: Super excited to be playing at @HTLGIFestival this year. We'll be on stage in the Blue Moon Tent on Friday 3rd June. C…
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It was our last Nature Songs session this Saturday! Here's a video of the song we wrote together celebrating the wonders of Bury Meadow Park... Sadly we were missing a few participants due to Covid, but we sang everyone's verses for them!
Read MoreWhat a beautiful morning for our last Nature Songs session today! I can't wait to get out in the park! 🌳 🌞 🌳
Read MoreHaving set up The Songwriting Project during lockdown, it has been so good today to share what we do and finally meet in person so many lovely people from Exeter's voluntary and community sector! Thanks to @exeter_connect for organising a brilliant event! https://t.co/e7AA2anIOX
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We had another beautiful Nature Songs session today, and just LOOK at this tree! No filters or anything like that... just naturally gorgeous! https://t.co/jAYNCsEEUD
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Looking forward to hearing a programme made especially for #iwd2022 by @DreadnoughtSW tomorrow! @JenniferEGrove interviewed Amy, Bee and Cath about the Duryard Song Project and our thoughts about women singing, community and nature. Tune into @phonicfm from 8 to 10am to hear us!
Read MoreIf it hasn't hatched in 3 days, you are allowed to dig it up and have an enormous omelette! (3/3)
Read More...when children stand on them, and take them to secret parts of the park? Most likely, we decided, is that they are the foot prints of a magical golden swan, who lays one huge egg once a year, and leaves a pampas grass feather pointing in the direction of the egg... (2/3)
Read MoreWhy are these three stepping stones all on their own in the middle of the grass? It was a magical theme for today's Nature Songs and we came up with some brilliant theories... How about a pathway to an ancient druid temple? Or maybe they are magical stones that only move (1/3) https://t.co/GMH5PzM7Xd
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After the storms of the week before, we were treated to a beautiful day for Nature Songs on Saturday. Here's one of the many brilliant "shape" poems people created, using nature as their inspiration. https://t.co/2n4wwDvExy
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Ooh, look at these little beauties! Coming soon to a project near you! 😉 https://t.co/udaYvmCMAb
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Happy Valentine's Day from the Nature Songs project! Here are some lonely hearts ads we wrote for the trees this weekend... 😘 https://t.co/hGYw19qhDh
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It was a bright, cold/sunny day for session 3 of Nature Songs this week. We created some awesome sonic maps, followed by plenty of singing, of course... To join the mailing list for future projects, email: amy@thesongwritingproject.co.uk https://t.co/omgL9ItWwG
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RT @AmyHopwoodMusic: While we wait for the elusive Sue Gray report, why not have a little listen to my folk song about the downfall of a fa…
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We had a fantastic second session of the Nature Songs project today, learning a new song about woodpeckers and creating colour palettes... Just look at the beautiful things we were able to uncover in the park - even in the middle of Winter! https://t.co/eGTqOcVm2N
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Find out more about Nature Songs here: #nature #Exeter #singing #ActiveDevon https://t.co/8vBjj9SyiS
Read MoreAll the more reason to join us for the Nature Songs project, starting in January!
Read MoreRT @AmyHopwoodMusic: It's launch day!! Time to get festive!! The best place to download the track is Bandcamp (as I get paid!), but there’s…
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Yikes! It looks like I'm going to be interviewed about the Nature Songs project on BBC Radio Devon this evening! If you have any tips on how not to sound like an idiot on the radio, please send them my way!
Read MoreTa da!! Here's the shiny new advert for our Nature Songs project! #singing #folk #nature #Exeter #ActiveDevon #ConnectingActivelyToNature #connectingwithnature https://t.co/rsFu1Coj8U
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Just a quick heads up that we have decided to postpone the start of Nature Songs to January. I'll be sharing the shiny new advert and information about how EVERYBODY can now participate, later this week!
Read MoreHere's the details of our new Nature Songs project starting in November in Exeter! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. I'm looking forward to getting out and about in nature more regularly and wearing my new winter coat! 🙂 https://t.co/awknHA0TNw
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@MirandaTunnicl1 Thanks lovely!!
Read MoreVery excited to say that initial funding was approved for a project all about singing in nature today! I'll share more details as soon as I can... 🙂 https://t.co/zbMrH17eNk
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Great session this morning at Community is the Best Medicine conference. Thanks! #kfcommunity
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Really enjoying the sessions on understanding community needs and tailoring the Covid response at the Kings Fund "Community is the Best Medicine" conference today. #KFcommunity @one_n_devon
Read MoreRT @aqua_folium: A poem for the day, by Mary Oliver. #nemophilist @WoodlandTrust @BookDevon @SNatureConnect @Devon_LNP https://t.co/k8AGefW…
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RT @MakingMusic_UK: Keep checking our Covid guidance tool for the latest updates on what's possible in all four UK nations 👇 https://t.co/…
Read MoreIt was lovely to finally meet participants from the Duryard Songwriting Project in person yesterday and sing our song together for the first time. Here we are doing our zombie-based vocal warm-up...! https://t.co/wJMQRJJmHS
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All welcome to join us singing in the park and dodging the showers tomorrow!😀 https://t.co/6erdGYKtOi
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The Duryard Songwriting Project was commissioned by Exeter Northcott Theatre as part of their Creative Communities programme. Residents from Duryard came together online to write and record a song about Spring, and forge new community networks... https://t.co/TdcQxbewPc
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The first songwriting project took place online during the initial Covid-19 lockdown of 2020. We wrote a song that, looking back now, feels almost like an oral history of a particular period in time. Shock, fear and a powerful sense of hope! https://t.co/G65vghFyvD
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