Summer 2024 Care Homes
Thank you so much to the 22 care homes, 3 dementia groups, and 1 mental health hospital that had me to sing over the summer! Here are a...
top of page
Katy's Blog
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Summer 2024 Round-Up
Buxton Festival Fringe Recital, BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall, and Sing for Pleasure Summer School…Such a busy and incredible...
- Jun 19
- 1 min
City of Manchester Opera 2024
✨ Still on cloud nine after such an amazing weekend playing Euridice with City of Manchester Opera !✨ An amazing double bill production...
- Jun 18
- 1 min
Hallé Relaxed Concerts June 2024
The reasons why I sing The Hallé Relaxed Concerts are arguably some of my favourite events of the year! They perfectly sum up all the...
- Apr 20
- 1 min
💙 250 💙
Last week marked my 250th dementia singing session! I am honoured and blessed to visit various care homes, dementia cafes/groups, and day...
- Mar 29
- 2 min
Oasis Unity Choir 🌼
I was both honoured and nervous when the Hallé asked me to visit the Oasis Centre in Gorton and help to run their Oasis Unity Choir....
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Hallé Relaxed Concert February 2024
“Singin in the rain” with The Hallé orchestra! ☔️⠀ ⠀ Thank you so much to the Halle team for having me back to sing in another wonderful...
- Dec 24, 2023
- 1 min
Christmas Care Homes Round-Up 2023
The firm favourites of 2023… ❄️ “White Christmas” 🎅🏼 “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” 🌟 “Silent Night” Thank you so much to the 19...
- Dec 19, 2023
- 1 min
Hallé Christmas 2023
The Hallé Christmas Carols weekend 2023! 🤩 Some of our children saw/heard a live orchestra and chorus for the first ever time this...
- Dec 11, 2023
- 1 min
Christmas Dementia-Friendly Coffee Concert 🌟
✨ Saturday 2nd December 2023 ✨ What a joyful, festive, and heartwarming time at last week's Christmas dementia-friendly coffee concert!...
- Nov 2, 2023
- 1 min
Guest Speaker Buxton Rotary
I was honoured to be invited as the guest speaker at the Rotary Club of Buxton dinner last week! Talking about my work with singing and...
- Sep 8, 2023
- 1 min
Summer 2023 Round-Up
June - July - August 2023 What a wonderful three months of care homes and dementia groups over the summer! I love meeting new people and...
- Sep 1, 2023
- 1 min
Buxton Festival Finge Award 2023!
I am absolutely delighted and honoured to have won the Buxton Festival Fringe “Spirit of the Fringe Award” for 2023! ☀️ Thank you so much...
- Jul 16, 2023
- 1 min
Guest soloist with Burbage Band (Buxton)
Burbage Band (Buxton) presents A Night of Glorious Melodies from Stage and Screen, as part of the Buxton Festival Fringe 2023 What an...
- Jul 14, 2023
- 1 min
Hallé Relaxed Concerts
It has been a magical afternoon at Hallé St Peter’s today singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” with The Hallé orchestra in their Relaxed...
- Jul 14, 2023
- 1 min
Dementia-Friendly Coffee Concert
Buxton Festival Fringe 2023 On Tuesday, I hosted my fourth Dementia-Friendly Coffee Concert at Buxton Methodist Church as part of the...
- Jul 5, 2023
- 2 min
Singing and Dementia Reflections - Opera and Dementia
May 2023 - "Songs from Italy" Last month's singing sessions were themed around "Songs from Italy", including all the great 50s hits from...
- Jun 26, 2023
- 1 min
HCC Victoria Wood Concert
🎵 Hallé Victoria Wood commission 2023 🎵 Wow! I am so so proud of all the HCC children for such an amazing and emotional performance on...
- May 28, 2023
- 1 min
Soprano Soloist with Amaretti Chamber Orchestra
Thank you so much to the Amaretti Chamber Orchestra for having myself and Olivia Hamblyn to sing last night! 🎶 💐 What a joy to perform...
- May 28, 2023
- 1 min
Singing with the Hallé Orchestra May 2023
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow” 🌈 A dream come true for me to sing “Over the Rainbow” as a soloist with 26 members of the Hallé Orchestra...
- May 19, 2023
- 1 min
Dementia-Friendly Coffee Concert - 24th April 2023
I'm rather late to post about it, but.... What a wonderful time we had on Monday 24th April at my third Dementia-Friendly Coffee Concert...
- Apr 23, 2023
- 1 min
100 Dementia Singing Sessions!
This week marks my 100th dementia singing session! Dementia is a cruel, cruel condition where we slowly loose our loved ones, even though...
- Apr 18, 2023
- 1 min
March Round-Up
A very delayed March round-up! But it was a wonderful month. This months singing sessions were themed around "Springtime" with...
- Apr 12, 2023
- 1 min
Easter at Golden Memories Group
Happy Easter one and all! Thank you so much to the Golden Memories Group at TFW Church for having me to sing for your Easter celebration!...
bottom of page