tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27459032752214454822024-03-13T13:47:02.225-07:00Morris Minors MusicA relaxed session for parents/carers and their children to learn some fun, folky repertoire from around the world.
Every Thursday, 10.15am and 11.15am at The Royal Sovereign PubMorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-72606118018920785202020-05-06T13:48:00.000-07:002020-05-06T13:48:03.404-07:00New Song Videos!
It's taken a pandemic for me to finally update this blog... but with exciting news. The family and I have been busy making song videos to go with lots of Morris Minors favourites.
You can find many more on this Youtube Playlist, and i'll keep adding when we can manage more!
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-28548450481300090252019-01-06T05:01:00.000-08:002019-01-06T05:12:51.517-08:00Happy New Year 2019Happy new year everybody!
Here's to a wonderful year of singing with our gorgeous children in the informal setting of the fabulous Royal Sovereign pub. How we love it there.
I've finally updated this blog to clarify the new timings. I am excited to be running two sessions back-to back - one at 10.15am and one at 11.15am, each for 45mins. Both sessions are suitable for 0-5s.
The pubMorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-63202639813609268572017-02-20T04:06:00.003-08:002017-02-20T04:08:11.357-08:00Good Morning to You - again!Well, with Joey nearly a year old, my maternity leave ends today.
This means a change to Morris Minors Music, as I will now be at school on Wednesdays, but I am pleased to say that the Royal Sovereign have kindly agreed to open up early on a THURSDAY, especially for us.
Starting from 2nd March, the sessions will now be every Thursday at 11am for an hour - which means you may want to stay for MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-24302675583338112912017-01-02T16:09:00.002-08:002017-01-02T16:09:49.925-08:00Flappy New Ears!Happy new year everyone. I am looking forward to singing and dancing with you all again this term, starting afresh at the Royal Sovereign on Wednesday 4th January. Come and join in and get 2017 off to a musical start. We have lots of regulars but there is always room for more. Pizzas available from the pub from 12pm at a reduced price of £6. Eat, drink, sing and be merry.
See you there. Michelle MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-36222771096158021782016-08-22T13:28:00.001-07:002016-08-22T13:28:48.850-07:00Morris Minors Music restarts on Wednesday!I am very excited to be writing again after all of this time. Morris Minors returns this Wednesday 24th August. I am really pleased to be beginning the group at Cafe SoVegan at The Royal Sovereign pub on Northwold Road, with a class every Wednesday from 11am-noon. Sessions are drop-in and charged at £3 per child or £5 for two.
Having welcomed children of different ages to my music groups of lateMorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-80530559071350643752014-10-19T03:51:00.001-07:002014-11-26T23:24:25.408-08:00The Rocket SongWe've built a rocket
Gonna make it fly...
Up above the clouds
And into the sky
We go bzzzzz, bzzzzz
To make our rocket fly
We go bzzzzz, bzzzzz
To make our rocket fly
Sounds in order (obviously you can add your own!)
bzzz, bzzzz
beeeep, beeeeep
uuuuuuurgh
clang! clang!
I should say I learn this from Juliet Desailly on my PGCE course and believe she wrote it. Enjoy!MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-28540199833568248222014-10-19T03:44:00.000-07:002014-10-19T03:47:19.091-07:00Hello, Good morning, Sani Bonani....Hello to you! (Hello to you!)
Shake your shoulders, 1, 2 (Shake your shoulders, 1, 2)
And stamp your feet (and stamp your feet)
And clap on the beat (and clap on the beat)
Stretch your hands up high! (stretch your hands up high)
Wiggle fingers to the sky! (wiggle fingers to the sky!)
Give a smile, give a grin (give a smile, give a grin)
And tap your chin (and tap your chin)
Well done MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-78310980470108376022014-09-01T03:46:00.000-07:002014-09-04T01:58:05.120-07:00Return to Paradise Park!Hooray - this week marked the return to Paradise Park for our little troupe, and hopefully the return to keeping up with the blog and sharing our songs, after quite a break.
This week we had a good ol' dance and sing to Miss Mary Mack.
This is an old classic - I learnt it properly from the singing of Ella Jenkins, on a Smithsonian Folkways recording. Here's a little clip of the lady herself MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-62621545927794991792013-12-13T03:18:00.000-08:002014-09-04T01:57:22.047-07:00Thursday 12th DecemberHello lovely Morris Minors!
Thanks to all who came to sing yesterday...
After an exhausting 'robin hood' warm up (even Santa Claus snuck in there), we got down to some serious singing.
We began with a round from Cameroon, which I learnt at a school workshop this week. You can hear it here:
In case you haven't noticed :-) Christmas is coming. We recapped my version of I Saw Three Ships in good MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-64005470220029819372013-12-11T15:47:00.002-08:002014-09-04T01:57:07.824-07:00Belated post from Thursday 5th December...Hello,
Just thought I'd pop a quite post in before we meet again tomorrow.
Quite a quiet week last week compared to usual, which gave us a chance to try The Mountain Song:
We recapped Popacatapetl and the Austrian Yodelling song, to keep with the mountain theme.
After the break we went all Christmassy with an amazing 3 part round - Christmas Bells. Sadly, I'd forgotten to charge the ipad, so MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-77414071862857738932013-11-16T07:55:00.000-08:002014-09-04T01:59:10.564-07:00Thursday 14th NovemberHave you ever noticed how the birds flock in Paradise Park? On a crisp, sunny winter day, it's exciting when a gang of them swoops over your head. It certainly gets Dot's attention. I could wax lyrical about this little park hidden off the Holloway Road: We are big fans of Freightliners Farm - the cafe AND the animals - and the trees slowly turning to their Autumn hues. It's against this backdropMorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-43358570233235480072013-10-31T15:23:00.004-07:002014-09-04T01:56:56.292-07:00Halloweenday 31st October 2013It all got a bit scary this morning, with witchy cackles, silent screams and ghostly howls to warm us up for singing, as well as some boggles and bogarts appearing out of the marshes...
This led nicely onto a 'ghostly' round...
GHOSTS...are very frightening,
And they are spooky too,
I hear one howwwwwling,
Doo, doo, doo, doo, dooooooooooo, doo, doo, doo, doo...
We MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-70405131707792986802013-10-30T14:12:00.001-07:002014-09-04T01:56:36.260-07:00Thursday 24th October 2013Hello! Well this is a belated post from last Thursday. In fact it's Wednesday night and I'm very much looking forward to a Halloween special singing session tomorrow at Paradise Park.
However, here are a few recordings to remind you of songs we covered last week. We learnt Early to Bed and Early to Rise... which prompted a few wry smiles. It works beautifully as a round. I think there's a few MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-3766297035051557082013-10-17T14:52:00.001-07:002014-09-04T01:55:59.736-07:00Thursday 17th October 2013More banana-based singing today at Morris Minors! Thanks to all who made it along. Lovely to have some new adults and babies join us, as well as lots of familiar faces.
Bananas of the World Unite:
Bananas of the world, U.....nite! (2, 3, 4)
Pick banana, pick, pick banana
Peel banana, peel, peel banana
Chop banana, chop, chop banana
Mash banana, mash, mash banana
Blend banana, blend blend banana
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-1739213229539008082013-10-10T13:22:00.000-07:002014-09-04T01:55:12.514-07:00Thursday 10th October 2013Lovely singing today Morris Minors!
We started the session with a new warm-up called 'Bananas of the World Unite'. Thanks for 'going bananas' with me and Dot on this one. The babies loved all your weather noises as well.
Huge thanks to Ben for playing guitar today, as well as being the only dad present. We covered a couple of new songs today. Here's a recording of 'As MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-7142481148539099372013-10-05T14:03:00.000-07:002014-09-04T01:58:20.392-07:00Roll the Old Chariot AlongDavid Coffin's version:
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-57802414955469238052013-10-05T13:59:00.002-07:002014-09-04T01:53:47.432-07:00Sail Away LadiesI love this version from Uncle Dave Macon:
And here we are doing the very same:
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-17360146645851000262013-10-05T13:23:00.002-07:002014-09-04T01:53:59.490-07:00Austrian Went Yodelling
Austrian Went Yodelling
Once an Austrian went yodeling on a mountain so high, When he met with an avalanche interrupting his cry.
Ho-li-ah Ho-le-rah-hi-hi-ah, Ho-le-rah-cuckoo, (Rumble, Rumble)
Ho-le-rah-hi-hi-ah, Ho-le-rah-cuckoo, (Rumble, Rumble)
Ho-le-rah-hi-hi-ah, Ho-le-rah-cuckoo, (Rumble, Rumble)
Ho-le-rah-hi-hi-ah-ho
Verse 2
Once an Austrian went yodeling on a mountain so MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-64767272442116539262013-10-05T13:21:00.000-07:002014-09-04T01:54:13.736-07:00Shallow Brown
Shallow Brown
Fare thee well, my Julianna
Shallow oh shallow brown
Fare thee well, my Julianna
Shallow oh shallow brown
We are leaving in the morning
We are leaving in the dawning
Now my babies they do grieve me
Now my babies they do grieve me
Now my husband he does grieve me
And it breaks my heart to leave thee
Fare thee well, my Julianna
Fare thee well, my Julianna
A MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-53213372101821517042013-10-05T13:04:00.002-07:002014-09-04T01:54:22.789-07:00Banuwa
Really hard to find decent quality ones, so am going for cute...
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-81831456914619470352013-10-05T13:03:00.001-07:002014-09-04T02:00:56.271-07:00Mama Don't Allowhttp://www.singup.org/songbank/song-bank/song-detail/view/518-mama-dont-allow/ (preview)
Quite different tune here, but a fun watch:
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-83693743379887652812013-10-05T13:00:00.003-07:002014-09-04T02:00:32.047-07:00Oh, Mr Sun
Oh, Mr Sun
Oh, Mr Sun, Sun, Mr Golden Sun
Please shine down on me
Oh, Mr Sun, Sun, Mr Golden Sun
Hiding behind a tree
These little children are asking you
To please come out so we can play with you
Oh, Mr Sun, Sun, Mr Golden Sun,
Please shine down on,
Please shine down on,
Please shine down on me.
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-48383421006032732612013-10-01T03:29:00.001-07:002014-09-04T02:00:27.106-07:00Ooh La La Lay
Ooh La La Lay
Oo, lah-lah, lay
Another evening fades away
You know the golden sun
Won't disappear for long
Because tomorrow is another day
MorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-37905648961342713612013-09-26T14:51:00.001-07:002014-09-04T02:00:18.181-07:0026th SeptemberWelcome to the new Morris Minors blog page! I am very excited about this being not only a way to communicate about what is going on at Paradise Park, but hopefully an online resource available to parents, carers and babies everywhere!
I've been really enjoying our little club at Paradise Park Children's Centre. The singing grows in confidence every week. As a singer I find it good exercise, as aMorrisMinorsMusichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14840814084588020784noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2745903275221445482.post-26549722254043290502013-09-25T02:42:00.000-07:002014-09-04T01:59:56.541-07:00Belle Mama
Belle Mama
Belle mama
Belle mama eh
Belle mama
Belle mama eh
Belle mama
Belle mama
Belle mama
Belle mama
Belle mama
Belle mama eh
More details here:
http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/belle-mama-a-song-from-the-torres-strait-islands/
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