Lady Maisery's Big Spring Sing: 11th - 13th April 2025

Event information

We're very excited to announce our Big Spring Sing for 2025! Please book your place by buying a 'ticket' here and we will be in touch with a registration form. These courses tend to sell out well in advance so you’re advised to book soon!

This is the first of two Lady Maisery Big Sing weekends in 2025, our signature group singing courses that take place on the hilly outer-edges of Sheffield. The course is focused on big group singing, learning some great harmony songs and enjoying ourselves. We’ll eat delicious home cooked food, enjoy the beautiful natural surroundings and experience the joy of singing together.
What we’ll be doing

We invite singers of all abilities to stretch themselves, discover something new, gain more confidence and, most importantly, have a lot of fun. We have been running singing weekends and week-long courses over the past decade and they are incredibly popular. With well-being, good food and a friendly approach at the centre of the weekend, participants should expect to sing lots within the safety and big sound of a group. We never ask anyone to sing on their own and aim for everyone (however experienced or not) to get something out of the workshop. Songs are taught by ear, with lyric sheets where needed. The material will be in three part harmony and the songs will be from our Lady Maisery repertoire or other songs we’re excited to share!

Each singing weekend is a little different and on our big sings we focusing on the pure joy of singing in a big group! The weekend will include activities such as: thorough physical, breathing and vocal warm ups, learning rounds and simple songs, learning some bigger more complex group songs in glorious three part harmony and having a go at improvisation in an inspiring and supportive atmosphere. Repertoire is usually a mix of Lady Maisery songs and some exciting new things too!

Rough schedule

We’ll meet on Friday night for some informal singing, and we’ll finish with tea and cake at 3pm on Sunday. We start at 10am on Saturday and Sunday, and on Saturday night we'll have a banquet together, followed by an 'open-stage' where participants can get up to share a song, a poem, a turn of some kind - this is always a highlight of the weekend. We will send a more detailed timetable nearer the time of the course

Venue

The venue is the Underbank School Room, a beautiful hall with stunning views of the Loxley valley where we have run many singing courses before. The space is one main hall with a kitchen, and then a garden you can relax in, weather permitting.

Address: Underbank School Room, 828 Stannington Rd, Sheffield S6 6AP

Pricing

Price: £200 (+ £14 booking fee) incl all teaching and food (Sat lunch + dinner, Sunday lunch). You'll need to find your own accommodation.

Please check you junk mail - we’ll contact you shortly after booking with a registration form but this may go to spam and it’s the only way we have of reaching you!

Please tick yes at the checkout for the box that says: 'I would like Lady Maisery (the event organiser) to send me the latest information about their events' so that we are able to contact you with a registration form and details about the weekend nearer the time.

Please note that this singing weekend will run with the same or similar content as the Big Summer Sing weekend in August 2025.

Cancellations

If you should need to cancel your ticket at any time, our policy is that if we can fill the place we can offer you a full refund (we usually have a decent sized waiting list). If it’s not possible to fill the place, we’ll still issue the refund if it’s more than a month before the weekend, a half refund if it’s more than two weeks in advance, but unfortunately we can’t offer a refund if it’s within two weeks of the event and the place can’t be filled. The small Wegottickets commission is not refundable.

If you have questions about anything to do with the weekend, you can contact us on:
ladymaiserysingingcourses@gmail.com