{"id":181,"date":"2015-06-15T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T18:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/?p=181"},"modified":"2017-08-25T16:44:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:44:13","slug":"hand-in-hand-in-brighton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/?p=181","title":{"rendered":"Hand in Hand in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/swp-at-hand-in-hand.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-full wp-image-182 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/swp-at-hand-in-hand.jpg\" alt=\"swp at hand in hand\" width=\"378\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/swp-at-hand-in-hand.jpg 378w, http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/swp-at-hand-in-hand-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 378px) 100vw, 378px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We had a wonderful time in Brighton at the UK and Ireland LGBT Choirs Festival. We went to some amazing singing workshops, took part in some spectacular concerts, learnt loads in the Sunday morning workshops for choir leaders and had a lovely Big Gay picnic in the park. We sang an OUT140 Suite of 6 songs including our &#8220;micro-opera&#8221; with Mary Benefiel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-large wp-image-183 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-1-1024x661.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"474\" height=\"306\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-1-1024x661.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-1-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what people said about our performance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I laughed so much I nearly peed myself<\/p>\n<p>That was about as much fun as you could have in 10 minutes<\/p>\n<p>It was amazing!<\/p>\n<p>brilliant! Your set really stood out from all the others<\/p>\n<p>I loved the humour. It was great to be able to laugh<\/p>\n<p>BRILLIANT performance. Very original and witty. Fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>It was wonderful<\/p>\n<p>You guys were really excellent, very different<\/p>\n<p>I loved how original your material was. You really looked like you enjoyed yourself. That&#8217;s a great thing to see in a choir<\/p>\n<p>Oh my god your set was fantastic, so clever<\/p>\n<p>It was so original<\/p>\n<p>It was so refreshing, it was just great<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes we can be so intense. It was nice to hear songs written about things people have genuinely said<\/p>\n<p>Touching and rather lovely<\/p>\n<p>It was so moving, very cleverly done, beautiful<\/p>\n<p>Charming, immediate, arresting<\/p>\n<p>It was really uplifting<\/p>\n<p>I loved your show and I want a copy of your book!<\/p>\n<p>I loved your little coming-out songs! Are they available to share?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-184\" src=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-2-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-2-205x300.jpg 205w, http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/photo-2.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 205px) 100vw, 205px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had a wonderful time in Brighton at the UK and Ireland LGBT Choirs Festival. We went to some amazing singing workshops, took part in some spectacular concerts, learnt loads in the Sunday morning workshops for choir leaders and had a lovely Big Gay picnic in the park. We sang an OUT140 Suite of 6&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/singwithpride.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}