Songs from a Full Moon
Following on from a very successful Songs from a Full Moon 5 day workshop in April, we are offering a second one, for 3 days in November 2026. Lindsey and Candy have a mutually creative partnership and have written 2 books of songs together. These songs, much loved by singers across Europe and beyond, will form the basis of the workshop, but we will also expand to many other songs, traditional and otherwise.
“The workshop was honey for my soul”
GI April 2026
“I especially appreciated your style of teaching, filled with a dynamic quality. It felt like we were ‘awakening the song’.”
KW April 2026
THE MUSIC and WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?
The workshop is aimed primarily at singers with some experience of choirs, who enjoy being challenged to improve the sound we make together, who want to delve into interesting music, experiment with ways of interpretation, get to know the music’s subtleties, explore the interpretation of lyrics, understand how the interplay of parts in a good arrangement works and hone our sound. If you haven’t sung our songs before, expect poetic lyrics, sometimes political, always personal, expressed in rich lyrical harmonies. All voices have something interesting in their part.
You can listen to the audios here (scroll down the page).
“What an incredible experience to be part of a choir of 30 singers in beautiful Stroud. With your professional guidance, through targeted work on pauses, dynamics, and emphasis, (all that with lightness and humour) we were able not only to sing the songs, but ultimately to feel them in all their expressive power.”
RW April 2026
LISTEN TO YOUR PART AHEAD OF THE WORKSHOP
A massive thank you to everyone who came to the workshop in April for learning your parts so well beforehand – all the hard work you did before we met made such a difference to what we could achieve over the course of the workshop.
We will be sending audios/music for three of Lindsey and Candy’s songs, three months before the workshop. The idea is that singers listen to the sound files and/or look at the music in advance, so that they are already familiar with their part by the start of the workshop. This means that we spend less time ‘note-bashing’, and have more time to devote to the interesting bit. We will also be singing other beautiful music, some easy, some more challenging. Expect full immersion, including laughter, fellowship, heartfelt emotion, and a lot of fun.
“It was a marvellous coming together between the nations, (we had singers from 4 countries) singing with a lot of sympathetic people, having spare time together and nice conversation, sightseeing in the town, singing in church and at the bandstand outside…”
BS from Bavaria April 2026
A FREE SONG BOOK
For those of you who don’t already have a copy, we will be offering one of our song books free when you join the course. They will form the basis of the workshop, though we will also learn many other songs - by us and by other people. The songbooks come with downloadable audios.
8 songs for choirs, with audio files, written by Lindsey Williams and arranged by Candy Verney.
Audio files are available for immediate download upon purchase. Books will be shipped within 7-10 days.
A collection of 12 Irish songs for choirs, arranged by Candy Verney, from easy to moderately challenging. Includes audio recordings.
Audio files are available for immediate download upon purchase. Books will be shipped within 7-10 days.
A collection of 8 original songs by Lindsey Williams, arranged for choirs by Candy Verney, with audio recordings of all parts included.
Audio files are available for immediate download upon purchase. Books will be shipped within 7-10 days.
ACCOMMODATION
If you live locally, would you be prepared to offer a spare room to a singer coming from further way? And if you are needing accommodation, and would like to stay in another singer’s home, we’ll do our best to find you somewhere. Failing that, it will be up to singers to find their own accommodation, but we do have some low budget ideas.
Please contact us.
Email: candy@candyverney.co.uk
And if you don’t know us yet, here’s who we are…
THE FACILITATORS
Many of you will know that I have collaborated over many years, with my good friend Lindsey Williams, to write a number of songs, resulting in two song books. Lindsey is an inspired wordsmith and song writer. She writes the songs, and boy they are beautiful songs, ranging in subject from current world issues, to reflections on life. My part is creating musical arrangements that are rewarding for choirs to sing. For me it is a very creative process. I spend time letting the character and lyrics of the song deepen inside me, hopefully leading to a choral arrangement that reflects its mood, that also gives all singers an interesting part to sing.
Candy Verney’s passion is to inspire and create, through singing, a sense of harmony which gives an experience beyond the ordinary. She has been building singing communities in different ways all her working life. Having completed a degree in classical music in the dim and distant past, she forged her own way, combining her musical expertise with her philosophy around fellowship, kindness and respect, and sharing with boundless enthusiasm the joy of simply singing together. For 30 years, Candy created and developed 6 community choirs in and around Bath, and now directs the Pan-European Choir, as well as teaching regularly in Germany.
“In your teaching you have such a nice way of pushing us out of our comfort zone, it didn’t feel like an effort.” SG April 2026
“Hugely recommend- if you love singing and cannot get enough, come Singing on the Wild Side”. PB 2018
“Candy is a superb voice coach, the atmosphere was spot-on, truly delightful” MD 2017
Lindsey Williams is an award-winning playwright who has been writing songs all her life. A Clinical Psychologist by profession, she tries to write songs that reflect and dissect everyday experiences. “I write lyrics that have meaning for me but which I also hope will resonate with other people...The tunes usually come pretty easily but getting the words right is hell!”
Lindsey was Assistant Music Director with Sing Out Bristol (the South West’s largest LGBT choir) and leads the Spring Singers in Gloucestershire, a group she describes as ‘small on numbers but huge on loveliness!’
Collaborating with Candy has been thrilling...by some magical alchemy Candy’s arrangements create marvellous, soaring, rhythmic harmonies that singers just love to sing.
“Choice of songs great - good mix of easy short songs and more complex ones including some brilliant tried and tested ones.” TC April 2026
“Candy and Lindsey...Wow! The tunes, the harmonies, the words, the teaching...And all done with such good humour and laughter. To quote my favourite song of the day...’I’ll be coming back to you!” AN 2024
“Lindsey’s songs are sometimes challenging, but Candy’s arrangements make them accessible to all. Enriching, absorbing and utterly worth the effort!” SS 2023
TIMINGS
Friday - Sunday 10am to 4pm, with tea/coffee breaks and a break for lunch around 1pm
VENUE
Stroud Baptist Church, Union St, Stroud GL5 2HA
“The beauty and poetic resonance of some of the chosen songs we learned were second to none, masterful and exquisite.” JK April 2026
Future Workshops
Song from a Full Moon
Tues 30 March - Sun 4 April 2027
Stroud
More details coming later
Bild-Werk Frauenau
September 18-25, 2027
Bavaria
For 25 years, Candy has been running a glorious week of singing at the Bild-Werk Arts Centre in the glass making town of Frauenau in Bavaria, Germany. She will be going again next year, on the dates above.
More details closer to the time.