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Warming Up Together CQ speaks to singer Claire Martin, who received an OBE for her services to jazz music in December, to find out more about her singing workshop during Chiddingly Festival. The 34th Chiddingly Festival will open on September 27 with a peal of bells. Festival highlights will include Hardeep Singh Kohli’s Indian Takeaway and its unique mix of comedy and cooking, folk artists Danny Schmidt and Carrie Elkins, brass quintet Mardi Brass performing musical styles spanning six centuries, and Swedish jazz artist Cecilia Stalin. Jazz singer Claire Martin will also be conducting a singing workshop on October 7. She said: “I’ve done two or three workshops for Chiddingly Festival now. I’m back by popular demand! “Basically, it’s a bunch of people who have come together and I teach them a condensed everything I know in three hours. I talk about breathing, supporting the breath, good, safe warm ups, things to look out for. I go round each of them and see where they’re at with singing – some are just there for the fun of it, others are perhaps classically trained and want to know a bit more about jazz. We get quite a lot of choir singers coming. “Absolutely anyone can come along, I don’t mind as long as they like a sing. I’ll have a keyboard there and I’ll probably hand out lyrics, and then we sing and whoever’s brave enough comes up the front and I can look at their performance objectively and criticise it or praise it.” Claire is happy to pass on her wealth of experience in singing jazz. She said: “When you create something that’s jazzy, when you stray off the melody that’s perhaps written, you need to actually know what you’re doing. A lot of people just think that you make it up as you go along – well, you are making it up as you go along but it’s within a structure. But I might show them a way of 18 Cultural Quarterly Autumn 2012 making them sound more breathy, for instance, or I might introduce the idea of doing some sort of blues lick on things.” Claire says she gets as much out of the workshops as the other singers who attend. She said: “I get to hear people warming up together – even though the church was a bit chilly last time, it’s a lovely acoustic, so I really enjoy that. I like the fact that everyone who comes along is really into it, everyone goes for it. “It flies by and I like supporting the festival. I love all the staff there and I think they’re doing a sterling job and I’m happy to put my name to it.” Chiddingly Festival Chiddingly, Lewes September 27–October 7 www.chiddinglyfestival.co.uk (Above) Claire Martin will host a workshop during the Chiddingly Festival. (Left) Claire with the BBC big band.
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