Songs from a Full Moon
Following on from our highly successful Songs from a Full Moon workshops in August 2025 and April 2026, we are offering another one in November 2026, with different songs, and a slightly different emphasis. This time, we’ll be focussing a little more on the process of writing and arranging songs – but still with plenty of time for singing, interpretation and in-depth analysis.
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 the sound we make together.
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).
LISTEN TO YOUR PART AHEAD OF THE WORKSHOP
We will be sending audios/music for five 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.
TWO FREE SONG BOOKS
For those of you who don’t already have a copy, we will be offering two 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: a.sfafullmoon@gmail.com
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. She created and developed six community choirs in and around Bath for 20 years, and now directs the Pan-European Choir, and teaches regularly in Germany.
“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’s songs are sometimes challenging, but Candy’s arrangements make them accessible to all. Enriching, absorbing and utterly worth the effort!” SS 2023
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 she creates marvellous, soaring, rhythmic harmonies that singers just love to sing.
‘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
TIMINGS
Wednesday - Saturday 10am to 4pm, with tea/coffee breaks and a break for lunch around 1pm
Sunday 10am to 1pm
VENUE
Stroud, UK (venue tbc)