Spain, GRANADA - Singing In The New Year, Polina Shepherd, Cortijo Romero is near Orgiva, in Andalucia. Fly to Malaga or Gatwick for a week in Paradise!, 29 Dec 2018
This holiday includes 7 nights full-board in a beautiful mountain retreat centre, with an inspiring singing course, plus optional yoga or tai chi and a day out visiting the mountains and villages.
Singing in the New Year with Polina Shepherd: Inspiring Eastern traditions - with added Spanish sunshine.
Most people familiar with choral singing know the wonderfully rich, very different sounds of Russian and Eastern European choirs - and if you have never heard them, you are in for an ear-opening way to a joyous community experience.
You don't have to be Russian to do it; this is for anybody who wants to have a go, regardless of previous experience or musical knowledge. The content will be drawn from traditional Christmas and New Year songs, ritual music for pagan holidays, wedding and folk dance songs, Cossack music and beautiful lyrical pieces. While others look fearfully at foreign cultures, discover the riches of one!
There will also be time for all the usual holiday activities; massage, yoga, dance, walking in glorious nature, quiet times and more.
Polina Shepherd (Skovoroda) is a performer, composer and choir leader with over 20 years of professional experience in teaching Yiddish and Russian song seminars and educational programmes, residential courses and choral workshops internationally. She works with audiences of different backgrounds and vocal levels. Singing is the most accessible part of these East European cultures that have no borders and connect heart to heart to develop group spirit and to bind people together.
