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Face Of Love Soul 2012 Is Announced

LS Web Guru — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:54:30 +0000

Last night the Love Soul Choir Co-Creators (Steve Giles & Jack White) announced the ‘Face Of Love Soul Award 2012.’
It’s plain and simple; Like Thea Sass & Kim Garner, Louise Dash-Carter is ‘all things Love Soul’.
Louise is obviously dedicated to developing her voice, and this shows how much she loves to sing. She takes opportunities at Love Soul Choir, and runs with them. This year, Louise traveled to London with Steve Giles, to attend a ‘Vocal Health Forum.’ She performed live on ‘Don’t Stop Believing’ with Love Soul Choir, and rarely misses a Weekly Session!
This leads us onto dedication. We love members that fight the rain, snow, thunder, family problems and work issues to come to our sessions. Louise is a prime example of this. Not only this, but once she’s at the session, her dedication to the harmonies, lyrics and dance concepts is incredible.
Of course there were other ‘contenders’ for this huge award, but when we imagined Louise’s smile, it sealed the deal! Regardless of how her day has been, we’ve never seen Louise frown. She lifts the room with her presence.
She makes amazing cakes and in Daniel Cooper’s words (Love Soul Creative Team), she’s “…literally amazing…”
Thank you, Louise Dash-Carter.

Trip To The Vocal Health Forum, Anyone?

LS Web Guru — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:57:57 +0000

Last month, Love Soul Co-Creator, Steve Giles travelled to London to visit a ‘Vocal Health Forum.’ Good vocal care is so important to us, so we offered Love Soul members the chance to travel with us to the event. It was pretty short notice, but that didn’t stop Southampton Member, Louise Dash-Carter! They had a fantastic day, and clearly picked up lots of information on the voice.

Steve has written a blog about the event, you can check it out here. ‘Shed Light Events’ organised the forum, you can check out their website here too.

Bournemouth, A New Era

LS Web Guru — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:04:45 +0000

We are ‘over the moon’ with our new choirs at Love Soul. Duncan Heather has led the ship in Manchester, and stamped Love Soul on the map up North. Each week, he meets passionate people, that are all there to make an amazing sound… what a ‘job!’

But what about all of the people in the South of the UK? As you will already know, for years, Love Soul Choir Southampton has been leading the way in the choir world. After all, they changed the meaning of the word ‘Choir’. But now, we have some very exciting news.

Last month, we were so happy to announce the launch of Love Soul Choir Bournemouth. They were missing one thing though… and that was their leader. Well… we have now found him! We’re not sexist (we’re sure that one day a woman will lead a Love Soul Choir), but we are picky. Of course it’s important that the leader is right for us at Love Soul, but it’s even more important that we are right for them. So please make way for Stefan Pearmain. Love Soul Choir Bournemouth and Stefan were a match made in heaven. Stefan knows a lot about Love Soul Choir and has a wealth of experience in harmony singing. He’s the perfect man for the job! He’s taking on a big project, but you’ll soon see what what he achieves as the new Love Soul Choir Bournemouth Leader.

He starts next week, and we know that all the Love Soul singers are going to give him a very warm welcome. It’s great to have him onboard, and we know he’s already looking forward to working with the best singers in the UK.

Bournemouth… We’re Back

LS Web Guru — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 10:01:31 +0000

Last year we had to place Love Soul Choir Bournemouth ‘on hold.’ Once we started back in the Love Soul office this year, our key focus was to develop some huge ideas and come back to Bournemouth in a big way… well, here we are!

We guess you could say that Love Soul Choir has changed since we’ve been gone. We recently released our brand new ‘Virtual Director’, which makes it very easy for all members to rehearse in the week. It gives members access to harmonies, lyrics and access to the Love Soul Choir ‘Dance Concept.’

For 2011, we also aim to perform more, after all… it’s what we do! Whether it’s performing as Love Soul Choir or choosing to sing solo at our ‘Performance Nights’, there are now plenty more opportunities to get your voice heard!

Lastly, we now have a new audition process. We love finding the very best, and it’s with this new audition process that we do this! In a nut shell, we’re very glad to be back, giving Bournemouth a new and fresh choir to be proud of!

We have auditions in October, so please fill out the ‘Join Us’ form to begin your Love Soul Choir Bournemouth journey!

Excitement Grows In The Love Soul Camp

LS Web Guru — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:17:05 +0000

Wow, have we got a lot to talk about!? Love Soul Choir Southampton and Love Soul Choir Manchester have been working very hard this year so far. Churning out the harmonies every week and working towards performances to entertain the two cities. We always try to keep you up to date with what’s going on. (If you’re a real nosey parker… check out our Facebook page for updates too!)

Although we’re very busy at the moment, we always find time to work with our chosen charity of the year ‘Rose Road’, you can see Southampton’s very own Love Soul Choir performing in WestQuay Shopping Centre in October this year… we’re hoping to raise lots of cash!

Love Soul Choir Manchester only started back in March this year, but already they are sounding great! The Love Soul Co-Creators headed up to visit the Manchester members recently, and wow, what a sound! We can’t wait to expose the brand new members to more great experiences, like their very own performance night which we’re organising now!

We like singing, but we also love to party. It won’t be long before Father Christmas will be packing his sleigh, so we’re also starting to plan our ‘Christmas Social’ for December this year. If you’ve got a venue that you’d like to see Love Soul Choir at this Christmas, get in touch!

All in all, it’s pretty packed to the brim at Love Soul HQ at the moment, but we’re not gonna stop ‘till we’ve got enough. Sing it. Live it. Love it!

‘I Am Love Soul’ – Member’s Talk

dancooper — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 10:47:32 +0000

We say it a lot, but we love our members, and we think you will too! So, we’ve asked some Love Soul Choir members to answer a few questions about themselves so that you can start exploring! Check our Facebook Page on the 15th of every month to get the low down on another one of our fantastic members. The first ‘I Am Love Soul’ will be released in only 4 days! We look forward to seeing you there!

Creative Team Advice Videos Coming This Summer

LS Web Monkey — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 09:35:45 +0000

You’ve heard us say it before, but we’ll say it again. We love singers and we love our members.

We also love to encourage the development of our members’ voices as much we possibly can. This is why we have now incorporated the Love Soul Choir Creative Team Advice Videos into the exclusive Members’ Area.

Tips on choreography, performance, confidence and the voice, will be released very soon… our way of helping our members become the best they can be.

Manchester, A Calling…

admin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:14:31 +0000

As we say in the video below ‘The Wait Is Over’. You can now join Love Soul Choir in Manchester. We like to think of this Love Soul development as more of a ‘calling’, from all of the people in Manchester. We’ve responded to your feedback.

We’re auditioning on Sunday the 17th of April 2011, but to secure a place you may click here to apply.

Please watch the video below to find out more about the opening of Love Soul Manchester.

The Virtual Director Has Arrived

LS Web Monkey — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:58:08 +0000

Things have been changing at Love Soul Choir recently, but it’s good to see that you’re keeping up!

It’s our mission to keep challenging the status quo, after all, it’s how we managed to change the meaning of ‘choir’. We’ve been working hard for two years, trying to work out a way to have Love Soul Choir’s leader go home with every member and train them in the week, but it was so hard to do. So, thanks to people like ‘Tim Berners-Lee’, we’ve managed to use the internet instead, it’s brilliant… isn’t it?

Now, Love Soul Choir members can log-in to the exclusive ‘Members’ Area’ at any time, and learn their harmonies, lyrics and choreography steps. There’s also a fantastic advice section, that’s regularly updated with tips from the creative team.

In fact, the whole of the ‘Members’ Area’ has been redecorated. We’d let you see it, but it’s exclusive to Love Soul members AND we would hate to give away our secret recipes.

Our members are world class and so, they deserve the best. Now go and have a look around your bit of the online Love Soul land, we’ve made some changes for you too!

A Little Bit Of Strictly At Love Soul Choir

LS Web Monkey — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:08:53 +0000

Love Soul Choir is growing. We are now excited to announce the arrival of ‘choreographer to the stars’ Richard Marcel to the instructor team.

Richard is the UK’s top TV and celebrity choreographer. He has worked with stars such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, George Michael, Diana Ross, Tom Jones and Alesha Dixon. He is resident choreographer on ‘BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing’, ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ and ‘Let’s Dance’ for Comic Relief. Richard also staged and choreographed for the Royal Variety Performance 2010.

Photo Credit: Elaine Mayson / ISTD Laban Congress

After assisting to develop the revolutionary ‘Love Soul Choir Dance Concept’, Richard now offers regular advisory videos for members, which are published in the exclusive Members’ Area.

Welcome to the team Richard!