{"id":5056,"date":"2018-10-25T22:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2018-10-25T22:52:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T22:52:34","slug":"joining-the-pub-choir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/10\/25\/joining-the-pub-choir\/","title":{"rendered":"joining the pub choir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending rather more time down my local recently.  Part of the reason is that post-rehearsal church choir drinks now happen there, the former favoured watering hole having closed.  I now feel more inclined to join in as I don&#8217;t have a long walk back.<\/p>\n<p>I happened to be free recently for one of the monthly &#8216;Pub Choir&#8217; nights which happen in an upper room.  The organiser\/conductor runs several pub choirs which meet with varying degrees of regularity in different parts of Bath.  The night I went the choir consisted of me and six men (what&#8217;s not to like?) and we learnt 3-part harmony arrangements of three songs.  I didn&#8217;t have the music this time (another time I might download it in advance) so I was learning by ear.  This is a skill I don&#8217;t practice very much although I suppose I do it passively when I &#8216;pick up&#8217; a piece through rehearsing and listening to it.<\/p>\n<p>The choir meets on the same night of the week as one of my other choirs, but I will look out for other months when I happen to be free.  It&#8217;s publicised in the area and some of my neighbours have been along in the past, so maybe a group excursion is called for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been spending rather more time down my local recently. Part of the reason is that post-rehearsal church choir drinks now happen there, the former favoured watering hole having closed. I now feel more inclined to join in as I &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/2018\/10\/25\/joining-the-pub-choir\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5057,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions\/5057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.virginiaknight.org.uk\/vhkssinging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}