{"id":42,"date":"2024-08-21T09:49:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/domain7786ce.stackstaging.com\/?page_id=42"},"modified":"2026-08-07T09:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T08:57:11","slug":"singing-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/singing-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Shared Harmonies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>SHARED HARMONIES now run the Parkinson's Halifax singing group on our behalf.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">These are a wonderful mix of people, some are living with Parkinson\u2019s, some are caring for people living with Parkinson\u2019s and some are volunteers \/ members from Parkinson\u2019s UK, Halifax Branch.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><br><em>Whether it\u2019s because we are singers, or (like me) just like to sing in the shower?!&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><em><br><\/em><strong>Elland Golf Club <\/strong>provide us with a venue *most Monday mornings \u2013 11am-12.30pm and our organisers <strong>Eileen Kenny and her husband, Michael<\/strong>,see that we get refreshments at our break. \u2028The cost, including the cuppa is \u00a35 per session. \u2028\u2028<br>*Please note we meet about 44 times a year, 8 sessions are lost due to bank holidays and closure in August due to the school holidays.<br>The leader of our group is Teresa and she makes us feel good about singing! \u2028<br><br>We sing A Capella, (without music) all kind of songs and poems set to music, (often produced by Teresa and\/or by the company Shared Harmonies) and we surprise ourselves sometimes by the very acceptable sounds we make!<br>As part of Shared Harmonies we\u2019ve now been involved in outside concerts (non-profit making) both locally and further afield in Yorkshire During \u2018Lock-down\u2019 we sang together with people from other Shared Harmonies groups on Zoom. It was a very productive period and meant a lot to many people who sing for health reasons and needed connection with others.<br>Three songs were produced about various aspects of our life- one about what it meant to us, meeting up and singing during COVID; one about what Christmas meant to us and another about being Yorkshire people. ALL are on YouTube.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E2uVhZXz8r0\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\">CLICK HERE<\/mark><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;to&nbsp;&nbsp;watch \"This is our Yorkshire.\"<br>We are a welcoming group and we really love the camaraderie between us all as we gel together. &nbsp; <br>Emma Baylin, Founder &amp; Director, of SHARED HARMONIES came to lead our Singing for the Parkinson\u2019s group in 2016 and what an inspiration it has been for us!!<br><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-red-color\"><strong>We meet most Mondays 11:00 - 12:30 at Elland Golf Club, HX5 0TA<\/strong><\/mark><br><br>Why not come and join us?<br>SHARE the fun!!<br>Please call<strong> Eileen Kenny on 01422 373566<\/strong> to confirm that we are singing, before you travel a long distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHARED HARMONIES now run the Parkinson's Halifax singing group on our behalf. These are a wonderful mix of people, some are living with Parkinson\u2019s, some are caring for people living with Parkinson\u2019s and some are volunteers \/ members from Parkinson\u2019s UK, Halifax Branch. Whether it\u2019s because we are singers, or (like me) just like to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-42","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkinsonshalifax.org.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}