Gitika Partington
singer songwriter composer acapella arranger music producer choral director educator qi gong instructor
Tag: Anais Mitchell
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At the moment I don’t get many opportunities to play with a whole band and monitors and sound crews and guitar roadies ( ha ha) and all that stuff. Always of acoustic and acapella mind….. so it’s great when it happens. At the Guildhall Rock and Jazz Summer School where I was tutoring I got…
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Funny thing..my current big album -favourite to listen to on the old headphones, on the train, is Anias Mitchell’s Hadestown – I am in love with Justin Vernon’s voice, (check out my song of the day 30th May) while at the other end of the flat, Mr P. is listening to some band called Bon…
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This particular festival reminds me of a story I heard of a student sports teacher who was being examined. He was teaching a class of 12-13 year olds how to throw javelin as part of an athletics module. There were 15 javelins and 30 students, so the student got the kids to line up in…
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I can’t believe that most people will have forgotten about this ancient and rather unusual festival of ours. The 30th of May is National Megaphone Day. A long forgotten festival dating back to the late 17th century, when it had a different name, to do with commoners and noise. The festival was introduced to ‘give…