Saturday Sings - Ryan O'Riordan & Rosie Sleightholme

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After a really successful 2024 Saturday Sings series, I’ve decided to do it all again, and I’ve got some fantastic guests lined up for 2025!

Saturday Sings is a singing workshop series where I invite a different choir composer each time and we share a day of teaching our own original harmony songs. Who knows, you could be the first group of singers to ever sing this material! Most songs are in 4 part harmony (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass).

All are welcome. We are Natural Voice Network leaders and all songs will taught by ear so there is no need to read music.

🎶 WHERE? Victoria Park Baptist Church, Sylvia Ave, Bristol BS3 5DA*

🎶 WHAT TIME? 1030-430pm (Doors 10am, arrive by 1015am).

🎶 PRICE? £40 standard rate, plus booking fee (Low Income/Higher Earner/Super Supporter options available)**

*Drivers - This venue isn't in the Bristol Clean Air Zone, but do check your route if you're trying to avoid it. You can check if your car is exempt here.

There is free on street parking on all the surrounding streets.

**Please note, unlike last year, the workshops won’t be catered (it's logistically quite challenging, sorry!), but we'll still have teas and coffees in the breaks. Lunch break will be  an hour, and you can bring your own packed lunch to eat at the church or in Victoria Park across the road. There is a bakery across the road, and there are other food options within 10/15 mins walk of the church.

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17th May 2025 - Ryan O'Riordan & Rosie Sleightholme

I'm so excited to share a day of teaching with Ryan, who is not only the most amazing singer (who can sing every voice part at pitch, including Soprano!) and musician, but a fantastic composer of funky and catchy songs.

About Ryan:

Ryan leads many weekly choirs in London, including the UCL Jazz Choir, the Greenpeace Workplace Choir and the Islington Community Choir. Ryan also leads weekend workshops and residentials and has developed a style which is high-energy and fun loving. His original songs are funky and soulful, and are incredibly joyous, rhythmically infectious and fun.

Born and raised in London, part of an Irish family, Ryan grew up in a big Irish community in Cricklewood, North London. He's always found music to be like magic; any birthday, Christmas, New Year or St. Patricks day, there’d be people singing, playing guitar and dancing. Since age 22 Ryan has been leading choirs, singing in bands and performing, and he sees it as his way of making the world a little bit smaller, and more connected.

Ryan really believes in people power; the only way we can achieve anything meaningful is connecting and collaborating. So any project he runs, he always tries to make sure it’s contributing to lifting people up, making people happy and bringing people together.

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Payment options:

I want Saturday Sings to be accessible whilst also paying myself and my composer guest a fair wage (fees go towards our prep time, composing time, travel, as well as the workshop itself). For this reason I've offered 4 payment options:

If you can afford to pay a bit more, your extra payment is much appreciated and helps to offset Low Income payments.

Please have a read of the Fees table on my People of Note website to decide which of the categories you best fit, and you can decide which rate to pay, no questions asked. I've added the Super Supporter rate this year as some people have said to me that they would like to pay more, which is very kind indeed, thank you! This will make it easier to allow people who can't afford the low income option to pay what they can.

If you will still struggle to pay the Low Income option, please contact me directly and we will work something out. I don't want anyone to be excluded because they are limited by finances. We have the Higher Earner and Super Supporter rates to help with this.

Please note that the ticketing platform I use now adds a 5% fee on to your booking.

Please see the event FAQs for what else your fee includes.
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Saturday Sings 2025 Series:

25th Jan - Kirsty Martin & me

29th Mar - Lea Morris & me

17th May - Ryan O’Riordan & me

13th Sept - Emily Roblyn & me

8th Nov - Dom Stichbury & me