Autumn term 2007 rehearsal with Chris

 

Chris Samuel and Fran Bolton are the Joint Musical Directors

They personally believe that everyone can sing - and specifically welcome people with all different ranges of experience, from absolute beginners to confident singers.

Chris Samuel is a full-time professional musician working with numerous different community groups, schools, businesses and choirs.

From one-off harmony workshops for schools or corporate clients to week-long singing holidays, he brings the same enthusiasm for open-access harmony singing to all of his teaching and he has worked with, amongst others, Bath Community Singers, the Gasworks Choir and Vocality - a Surrey based community choir.

As a performer with Naked Voices, he is a veteran of several Edinburgh Fringe runs as well as other festivals from Trowbridge to Prague and numerous theatres and arts centres across the country. For fun, he plays and sings with the small Country and Americana band "Bound for Tulsa".

Chris can be contacted on 07971 918862.

Fran Bolton has been involved in running popular singing workshops for the last six years at arts centres and festivaks, and for singing groups around the country.

A qualified teacher who has worked in various schools over the last 15 years, she also has extensive experience as a singer, performing a wide ranging repertoire from Mozart to Motown.

 

Chris and Fran were both members of the acclaimed Naked Voices - a 16 piece a cappella group based in Bristol.