Mary Keith
Musician
Coming Soon; Autumn 202444
About
I am a freelance musician, currently working regularly under lockdown as Musical Director for The Mere Singers in Shrewsbury, The Keele Women's Community Choir, The Patreon Community of Song, the Morning Sun Singers in Welshampton and Buzzy Beats based at the Hive in Shrewsbury.
I am composer/ Musical Director for theatre and community based projects, including B Arts, The New Vic, The National Trust, Arts Alive, National Heritage Lottery, About Face Theatre, The Fetch and Teatro Montemuro, (Portugal).
After completeting a BSC Hons Music at City University, I trained with Community Music East, before embarking on a free-lance career that has seen me working with community and education projects for Glyndebourne Opera, Opera North, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Liverpool Philharmonic, The Royal Ballet, and creating new music for The New Vic Theatre, Foursight Theatre, Horse and Bamboo Theatre, Pentabus Theatre, About Face Theatre, The Fetch and a series of musical folk tales from around the world for Channel 4. My musical work has taken me to exciting parts of the world- Palestinian Refugee camps, the jungles and hills of Nagaland, a horse drawn theatre tour across the Hungarian Pusta, creating playful new theatre with students in Korea, composing for Teatro Montemuro in the wild Montemuro mountains of Portugal, performing on Woman's Hour, the Royal Albert Hall, Hamlet's Castle in Denmark, the Edinburgh Festival and on top of the Long Mynd.
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Dates for 2024
Friday 12 January: Buzzy Beats sessions resume Friday mornings 10.30-11.30 at The Hive, Shrewsbury.
Please book in with the link above.
Monday 8th January: Mere Singers term starts, 7.30-9.00 at The Hive Shrewsbury.
New singers welcome!
Thursday 11th January: Morning Sun Singers sessions start,
Thursday mornings 10.30-11.30 at Welshampton Parish Hall. Drop-in group of all voices!
Thursday 18th January: Keele Women's Community Choir sessions start.
Thursday evenings 7.30-9.00 at The Dorothy Hodgkin Building, Keele University.
Saturday 20th January: Mary and The Mudlarks
@ The White Hart, Birch Road, Ellesmere 8pm Free!
Sunday 21st April: Singing for Curlews to celebrate World Curlew Day. 10.30am at Ratlinghope Church, 10.30-12.00. Donations to Curlew Country to help support their vital conservation work with this endangered breed.
Monday May 6th: Sing in the May Singing Walk to celebrate the arrival of May, 10.30-12.30
as part of Jenna Blair Yoga Creative Connections, supported by Arts Council England.
Booking essential enquiries@jennablairyoga.co.uk.
Tuesday 20th April: Songs and Stories for the Pink Full Moon - Welshampton Parish Hall, 7.30
May 25th- June 1st: Singing, Hiking, Sailing holiday with Mary and Meridian Travel on the Turkish Aegean.
FULLY BOOKED
July 6th: Songs for a Summers Day St Mary's Church, Shrewsbury, 2.30-3.45 -Joint performance by the Mere Singers and Morning Sun Singers.
JJuly 21st: Annual Singing Picnic, with Polly Bolton and Sue Harris, Wistamstown Village Hall 2-5.
August 3rd,4th,10th,18th: The Call of the Curlew. Yorkshire Dales based songwriting workshops with writer Karen Lloyd
November 23rd: NEW DATE! Sing in The Fall, Shrewsbury, 10.30-12.30. ACE funded Singing Walk with Jenna Blair Yoga.
Bookings; www.jennablairyoga.co.uk
October 30th- November 6th: Singing Holiday at la Maison Anglais, Taroudant, Morrocco FULLY BOOKED
JSaturSDecember 14th:
Songs of Peace and Joy, Mereside Centre, Shrewsbury. Mere Singers annual end of year celebration.