Come and join Tots Tunes online 4 week course. Start your day with a joy filled shake, stomp & sing.
Join the journey of global folk songs & original tunes over 4 weeks, as ever with dance moves, shaking and a chance to just lie down and listen (the Shavasna moment of Tots Tunes!)
Thursdays: 25th February & 4th, 11th & 18th March
Only £25 for the whole course (per household)
Even if you miss a class, it is still fine to be part of the whole course
Tots Tunes will be back online in this next month with a slightly different format and adding 2 special classes for 4-6 yr olds while schools are closed!
Tots Tunes online mini-courses
Tots Tunes Thursday Shake Ups! - For parents and 0-3 yrs olds
Come and join Tots Tunes online mini-course (4 weeks). Start your day with a joy filled shake stomp & sing.
Thursdays: 21st & 28th January + 4th & 11th February - 10am
Only £25 for the whole course (per household)
Tots Tunes with a Twist for 4-6 yr olds (& parent/carers) - 2 week course
Songs from around world, dance moves, shaking & some percussion - so bring anything you can find to tap, scrape & shake.
£15 for 2 workshops
Fridays: 29th January & 5th February - 10am
Hi everyone...
Tots Tunes is back in real-life indoor action this December - really looking forward to running some Saturday shake ups, in the lovely Saint Barnabas Dalston. (The space is all set up to be Covid secure, plenty of room to spread out and enjoy some live music together. Places however are very limited so book quickly if you would like to join)
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Bring a shaker, a rug for your family group, your dancing feet, (quiet) singing voices! More info on the booking link. Please arrive 15 mins early and wait outside in the courtyard t be let in.
I came across my last box of hard copy Tots Tunes CDs the other day! If anyone wants to buy one or even a few as Christmas presents, email soundscreativeprojects@gmail.com and we can arrange where to send them to and payment method (CDs are £8 + £2.50 p&p)
For some home entertainment too, If you are new to Tots Tunes you might also like to watch these with your little ones...
Stay in touch if you are further afield as new plans are ever evolving - albums, shows, more workshops all to come!
Tara x
(Founder, cellist and creative director)
It has been a few weeks now of reconnecting in real life with many of the SoundsCreative community.
It is such a joy to be away from a screen and out in the green once again chatting and being with people in real life. All workshops have limited capacity to keep social distancing in place yet make sure the experience is as it should be. Places have to be booked in advance too and so far sell out very quickly!
Vox Voices evening women singing group have been meeting again to sing under a Cathedral of willows in a local Hackney Park, the first workshop after 4 months was quite emotional and so nice to get the regular group of women back together again.
Tots Tunes is out on the move around Hackney green spaces - so far Clissold Park and Butterfield Green, Stoke Newington and next week across to Millfields Park in Clapton.
Up next…
(the 10.30am class sold out in 10 minutes!)
Each week workshop dates and days vary for Tots Tunes depending on the weather. I have been sending out a newsletter with booking links at the end of each week.
Stay in the loop and come and join when you can!
If you have any questions just drop an email to me at soundscreativeprojects@gmail.com.
See you soon,
Tara x
Tara Franks
SoundsCreative Projects Founder and creative leader
Cellist & Composer
For the last week of June I will be running online Tots Tunes classes for one more week on both, Tuesday and Thursday- 10am (zoom links below).
It has been a joy to start the day seeing smiling regulars dancing and singing. I hope that whether you have a babe in arms or toddlers/pre-schoolers full of energy, the online classes give you space to sing some beautiful songs for yourself, dance with your littles and just relax and have a listen as the music zooms into your homes.
"We all 3 love Tots Tunes. It has been our highlight during lockdown" kind words from a wonderful family of regulars
Still continuing with the suggested donation, please pay what you can at this moment in time (do get in touch if you would like to use a different payment method from Paypal).
approx 30min class
(suggested donation £5 or class/£8 discount rate for joining 2 in a week)
See you there.
Tara x
Vox Voices has always been a space for women to gather, a space to sing and also to breathe, move and connect. A welcome weekly retreat for many of the regulars. When lockdown began I had no idea if it would be possible to keep the spirit of the workshops alive via an online platform. Or even if I could keep the regular group connected.
Vox Voices has now become something new, it is still a space to connect with a collective of women who want to continue to sing for their own well-being and also simply to learn a range of a cappella world folk songs. It is admittedly very different from feeling the vibrations of collective sound in a room however the pure act of singing has been proven to do us no end of good physically and emotionally, something we all need right now. It is very different from the lived experience yet there is still something special about these online workshops.
The positive side to this virtual world is that we have expanded from a local community to an internationally one and it is growing. As is the current ethos of Vox Voices the group remains a size that allows everyone to get to know each other, have a chat, stretch, breathe, sing and have some fun.
We have been singing part songs from Ghana, South Africa, Zimbabwe alongside British folk tunes and some close harmony jazz songs.
All workshops are run through Zoom and as many of you may know there is no platform yet created that allows group sound to happen simultaneously. However, I have my loop pedal on the go so as we learn, the vocal parts are layered up and zoomed live into your living room to sing along with.
Come and join, tell friends around the world! No prior singing experience required and now you need not even feel self conscious as we can’t hear each other when we sing anyway :-)
Email if you want to know more before trying it out.
Hope to see you there,
Tara x
Join from 8.30pm for a chat
8.45pm singing starts
1 hour workshop - 4 weeks
Suggested donation £8 (or pay in a block for all 4 weeks £30)
With guest leader Preetha Narayanan joining for 2 weeks to lead some short breathing meditations and chanting
Read more about Vox Voices