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Earth Wind & Choir “My mum makes me mash my mini Once we’ve finished our singing makes the messages that we sing more M&Ms on a Monday morning oo ah.” for the evening, Annabel talks about powerful.” There is a choir project called Next we sing ‘Can You Feel the Love the Wishlist, something that happens Remini-Sing that is operating in nursing Tonight’, Anthony playing along on an at every session of With One Voice, homes around the country, to boost Earth,E rth, Windind and ChoirChoi electric keyboard. When we properly where members can put in a wish, and wellbeing for people with dementia and get going, he flourishes on the keys so other members try to grant it for them. their families. There’s the Beyond the enthusiastically that it rocks from side Monica asked for advice about the Bathroom choir, which takes over the to side on the wooden floor. best place to get music lessons for her dining room of my local pub once a week, Katherine Smyrk is the voice, and she’s trying to understand it! “Gorgeous!” he shouts at the end of child. Beth wished that she would be able the Men’s Shed Chorale, the Sydney She discovers the magic of song and the power of community in choir. the song. to stand up for the first time and, two Atheist Choir, Women with Latitude, We run through ‘What a Wonderful years ago, she did – at rehearsal, in front Melbourne Gay Men’s Chorus, Burundi World’ and then ‘I Am Australian’. of everyone. Peace Choir, the Australian Military IT’S A BLUSTERY Tuesday evening; the who had experienced disadvantage and “It was definitely really special.” When he A woman with long red hair stands up Annabel used the Wishlist when she Wives Choir, Phoenix Voices of Youth muggy wind whips pollen around like homelessness, and showed them that talks about the choir, he can’t stop saying and leads us through the Auslan lyrics. first started. She had been unemployed Choir, the Birralee Blokes, WomanSong. drifts of snow. But inside Scot’s Church they could make something beautiful. the word “fantastic”. Three-part harmonies reverberate for six years, and asked for help finding The list could go on forever. it is cool. A little hushed, too, in the way A number of Melbourne Big Issue “We have a great time, we have a bit throughout the rafters like angels. a job. Someone in the choir was working Jonathon Welch points to the fact that that churches usually are. But that will vendors were involved, eventually taking of a laugh, you know?” he says. “I love In a break Monica, an IT project in recruitment, and offered to look at humans really are pack animals. soon change; the acoustics put to good the stage at Sydney Opera House. going to choir. We go out and meet manager who works in an office nearby, her resume. Eventually, after being fired “We are programmed to want use. Tuesday is rehearsal night for the “The documentary helped us to see people in the area, and I have made tells me why she’s a part of the choir. suddenly from a call-centre job, she got to connect and communicate with Melbourne With One Voice choir. the choir members as real people with a lot of friends. It’s just fantastic.” “It’s like an escape for me. Life gets so Annabel meets me at the door. She hopes and dreams, just like you and me,” busy, work and home, I have a three- has been a part of the choir for almost says Welch, who has continued to create year-old…” she explains. “But when you “If you come together with people, you five years. She whips around the room other community choirs, including a BACK AT SCOT’S Church, we’re getting come to choir, when you start singing, it’s realise that we have so much in common. And on elbow crutches, marking down the group called Voices Without Borders down to business. I sit in the alto section a release. You forget about the world.” names of those attending, arranging rows with refugee and migrant support with Annabel and others. There’s a “Singing is a feelgood drug,” adds there really is no us and them. It’s all us.” of chairs, ensuring conductor Anthony group AMES. woman in a Royal Botanic Garden Annabel as she passes by. “It’s my drug Barnhill has everything he needs. “We saw that everyone wants the Uniform who has obviously come of choice. I get such a high after singing.” an ongoing role as an admin assistant. each other, and choirs create these Beth arrives soon after me, zooming opportunity to feel acknowledged and straight from work. She then earnestly assures me that she “The Tuesday after I was sacked musical ‘villages’.” in on her wheelchair with a grin. Born valued and in return also wants to Started in 2008 by social doesn’t do drugs. from my call-centre job, I came to choir When rehearsal is over, everyone with cerebral palsy, Beth has low make a contribution back to the world. entrepreneur and soprano Tania de Every person I speak to points to really distraught. I couldn’t stop crying. stands around and chats, shares some mobility. She explains that she used to be Through the choir, they were able to do Jong, With One Voice is a community scientific evidence that singing is good Everyone crowded around me in a circle supper that has been laid out on trestle brought to choir by her aunty, but now this with their beautiful voices.” choir program now adopted around for you. Tania de Jong has a whole and sang ‘Lean on Me’. Now, even to this tables. People are laughing, some still she comes on her own, via taxi. The program inspired Perth musician the country. Each choir is led by a TedTalk on the subject. Jonathon Welch day, I can’t hear ‘Lean on Me’ without humming. As I stand and watch them “This is something I can do by Bernard Carney to start a choir with Big professional conductor, and brings both informs me that in the UK doctors are crying,” she says. “The choir is like a I think of something Tania said to me myself,” she says proudly. “I love being Issue vendors in his city. Called Spirit privileged and underprivileged people prescribing singing in choirs to patients second family.” earlier: “That’s what people are aching part of a group. I belong here. At choir of the Streets, it has been going for 11 together to sing. who are suffering from depression. Once you start looking out for for. Community.” no-one sees my wheelchair.” When I years, but is expanded to anyone who, “If you come together with people, Singing does release endorphins, choirs, they are everywhere. I speak to ask her how singing makes her feel, she as Carney puts it, “felt they didn’t fit you realise that we have so much in and increases oxytocin, which is the Ci’Ellah, a 12-year-old member of the » Katherine Smyrk (@KSmyrk) is the almost shouts, “AMAZING.” into society”. Steve W has been a part of common. And there really is no us and hormone associated with love, trust and Marliya choir, an all-girl offshoot of Deputy Editor of The Big Issue. It was just over a decade ago that the choir for 10 years, the same length them. It’s all us,” says de Jong. bonding. A study from the Royal College the Gondwana Indigenous Children’s » Find out more about With One Voice the idea of a community choir really of time he has sold The Big Issue, and We do a big deep breath in together of Music London has shown that singing Choir. They recently recorded a song at creativityaustralia.org.au and Spirit came into the Australian consciousness performed at an enormous show the – young and old, employed and in a group also significantly reduces with rapper Briggs about Aboriginal of the Streets at spiritofthestreetschoir. through an ABC TV documentary about choir did at Perth Concert Hall. unemployed, people in wheelchairs, the stress hormone cortisol. Research deaths in custody. “We’re pretty much org.au. Spinifex Gum featuring Marliya the Choir of Hard Knocks. Run by “That was absolutely awesome, it was people in expensive suits – breathing conducted with a Frankfurt choir like sisters,” Ci’Ellah tells me of the other from Gondwana Choirs will be at conductor and opera singer Jonathon just really fantastic to stand up on stage out together with a sigh. We launch into found that singing together produced girls in Marliya. “It’s good for us to sing Sydney Festival on 25 January 2019, Welch, the choir brought together people in front of thousands of people,” he says. warm-up exercises of tongue twisters: antibodies in the blood. together as a group, because I feel like it sydneyfestival.org.au. ILLUSTRATION BY PAUL VIZZARI BY PAUL ILLUSTRATION 420mm (W) x 55mm (h) +5mm bleed sides & bottom 36 THEBIGISSUE.ORG.AU 3–25 DEC 2018 THEBIGISSUE.ORG.AU 3–25 DEC 2018 37.
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