Scotland's Singing for Health Podcast

Scotland's Singing for Health Podcast
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Welcome to the Scotland’s Singing for Health Podcast, produced by the Scotland’s Singing for Health Network. Singing for Health groups support the management of a range of conditions and in each episode of the podcast, we will be talking to singers, singing group leaders, researchers and medical practitioners to find out more about the benefits of singing and what singing for health activities are taking place all around Scotland. For more information, please visit out website https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/.

  1. 07/09/2024

    Season 3, Episode 2: Building Singing for Health Training & Peer Support with Jo Miller and Anne Gallacher

    On Season 3, Episode 1, we welcome Dr Jo Miller, coordinator of the Trad Arts Mentoring programme for Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland, and Anne Gallacher, Director of Luminate – Scotland’s Creative Ageing organisation, who discussed the recent evaluation of Luminate’s peer support pilot. The show is presented, produced, and edited by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Sophie Boyd, who co-run the Network. Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned on the episode. More details about the Network Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk X (formally Twitter): @ScotSingHealth Key links Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland: https://tracscotland.org/   Luminate – Scotland’s Creative Ageing organisation: https://luminatescotland.org/ Resources mentioned in the episode: Luminate Peer learning for conductors and singing leaders: https://luminatescotland.org/project/peer-learning-for-conductors-and-singing-leaders/ Luminate Artist Support Programme: https://luminatescotland.org/project/artist-support-programme/ TRACS Trad Arts Mentoring: https://tracscotland.org/tradartsmentoring/ Dementia Inclusive Singing Network: https://singing.luminatescotland.org/ Scottish Mentoring Network: https://scottishmentoringnetwork.co.uk/ SNP Wellbeing Economy: https://www.gov.scot/groups/wellbeing-economy-governments-wego/ Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Doon in the Wee Room with words rewritten by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang in 2019, inspired by an original Glaswegian folk song by Daniel McLaughlin. The group shaped this song around their experiences of singing for breathing as part of Sophie Boyd’s PhD research. Recording by Sophie Boyd.

  2. 05/31/2024

    Season 3, Episode 1: Developing Singing for Health Training with Nicola Wyndeback and Anne Ritchie

    Show Notes On Season 3, Episode 1, we welcome Nicola Wyndebach, Director of Training for Sing to Beat Parkinson’s and Anne Ritchie from the Cheyne Gang, who both shared how they developed training programmes for singing leaders working in Singing for Parkinson’s and Singing for Lung Health. The show is presented, produced, and edited by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Sophie Boyd, who co-run the Network. Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned on the episode. More details about the Network Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk X (formally Twitter): @ScotSingHealth Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/282091903071028 Key links Sing to Beat Parkinson’s: https://www.singtobeat.co.uk/stb-parkinsons-training. Cheyne Gang: https://www.thecheynegang.com/. Resources mentioned in the episode: Sing to Beat Parkinson's - Adapting and evolving the facilitator training model during a pandemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S71MU9ZRahs. Cheyne Gang, Puffy Cheeks - Breathing Into Singing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi7hcj9GipE. Sing to Beat Parkinson’s YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@singtobeat. Cheyne Gang YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@the_cheyne_gang/videos. Singing Side by Side, Mental Health Inclusive Choirs: https://www.singingsidebyside.co.uk/. Chest, Heart, Stroke Scotland: https://www.chss.org.uk/. Singing for People with Parkinson's by Nicola Wydenbach and Trish Vella-Burrows in association with Grenville Hancox: https://www.comptonpublishing.co.uk/singing-for-people-with-parkinsons.php. Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: ‘Doon in the Wee Room’ sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd

  3. 04/18/2023

    Season 2, Episode 7: Reflecting on Scotland’s Singing for Health Network

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 7, Dr Sophie Boyd and I reflect on Scotland’s Singing for Health Network and what we have managed to achieve during this funding period, which began in March 2021. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, who is Principal Investigator of the Network. The show’s producer is Sophie Boyd. This episode is edited by Sophie Boyd. More details about the Network: Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth Key links: Musicians’ Union: https://musiciansunion.org.uk/. Grants and Financial Support for Musicians - Recommendations from the Musicians’ Union: https://musiciansunion.org.uk/membership-benefits/grants-and-financial-support-for-musicians Help Musicians: https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk/get-support/develop-as-a-musician/advice/cost-of-living-further-sources-of-financial-support. The Royal Society of Musicians: https://www.rsmgb.org/supporting-musicians-in-need/ Independent Society for Musicians: https://www.ism.org/advice-centre/funding British Association for Performing Arts Medicine: https://www.bapam.org.uk/. Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Famba Naye sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd. Famba Naye is a folk song that comes from Zimbabwe and is sung in the Shona language.  "Famba Naye" means "Stay Well, Go Well" in Shona. As the song is about parting, it is a popular song to be sung at funerals, though it can also be sung in other contexts.

  4. 04/11/2023

    Episode 6: The Arts on Social Prescription

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 6, we welcome Deborah Hamilton, a Glasgow-based Community Links Practitioner with the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland, and Alison Leitch, assistant service manager  of the Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network, co-chair of the Scottish Social Prescribing Network and member of Scottish Community Link Worker Network. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, who is Principal Investigator of the Network. The show’s producer is Sophie Boyd. This episode is edited by Sophie Boyd. More details about the Network: Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth Key links: Culture Health and Wellbeing Alliance: https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/key-themes/social-prescribing. Edinburgh Community Link Worker Network: https://www.evoc.org.uk/partnerships/community-link-workers/ Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland: https://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/ National Academy for Social Prescribing: https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/ Scottish Social Prescription Network: https://www.scottishspn.org.uk/ Scottish Community Link Worker Network: https://vhscotland.org.uk/what-we-do/scottish-community-link-worker-network/. Social Prescribing Resources: https://www.healthscotland.scot/publications/social-prescribing-resources. What is social prescribing? (link from gov.uk): https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/social-prescribing-applying-all-our-health/social-prescribing-applying-all-our-health. What is social prescribing (link from gov.scot): https://www.gov.scot/publications/resources-mental-health-wellbeing-primary-care-services/pages/4/#:~:text=The%20term%20%27social%20prescribing%27%20is,and%20physical%20health%20and%20wellbeing. Music featured in the episode Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Famba Naye sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd. Famba Naye is a folk song that comes from Zimbabwe and is sung in the Shona language.  "Famba Naye" means "Stay Well, Go Well" in Shona. As the song is about parting, it is a popular song to be sung at funerals, though it can also be sung in other contexts.

  5. 04/03/2023

    Season 2, Episode 5: Givin’ It Laldie

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 5, we welcome Clare McBrien, manager of Givin’ it Laldie. Givin’ it Laldie, a grassroots music charity based in the Gorbals in Glasgow. Clare is also herself a community musician, working across a range of music and wellbeing projects. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, who is Principal Investigator of the Network. The show’s producer is Sophie Boyd. This episode is edited by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland. More details about the Network: Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth If you liked this episode, please tweet us with your thoughts and add #connectionnotperfection. Key links: Givin it Laldie: https://givinitlaldie.org.uk/. Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Famba Naye sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd. Famba Naye is a folk song that comes from Zimbabwe and is sung in the Shona language.  "Famba Naye" means "Stay Well, Go Well" in Shona. As the song is about parting, it is a popular song to be sung at funerals, though it can also be sung in other contexts.

  6. 03/27/2023

    Season 2, Episode 4: Scottish Opera’s Memory Spinners Project

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 4, we welcome Matthew Brown, who has been the musical director of Scottish Opera's Memory Spinners project for the past 10 years. He also directs the Strathcarron Singers, a community choir with a strong link to Strathcarron Hospice. And Rose Ann Gross, who has been involved with Memory Spinners for over 10 years and is a Company Stage Manager with Scottish Opera's Outreach and Education department. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, who is Principal Investigator of the Network. The show’s producer is Sophie Boyd. This episode is edited by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland. More details about the Network: Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth If you liked this episode, please tweet us with your thoughts and add #connectionnotperfection. Key links: Scottish Opera’s Memory Spinners – How to get involved and dates for the diary: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/memory-spinners/. Alzheimer’s Scotland: https://www.alzscot.org/. Research Scottish Opera have been involved in: Scottish Opera have had links with Arts 4 Dementia (a London based charity for people living with dementia, which describes its work as ‘empowerment through artistic stimulation’. Arts 4 Dementia gave Scottish Opera some really useful feedback and supportive input in the early days of the Memory Spinners project, and they have commissioned a number of very good pieces of research into the benefits of arts participation and attendance for those with the condition. The structure and aims for Memory Spinners was influenced by their research and findings – especially their seminal report, Arts for Brain Health. Memory Spinners is also referenced in this Arts 4 Dementia report. Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Famba Naye sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd. Famba Naye is a folk song that comes from Zimbabwe and is sung in the Shona language.  "Famba Naye" means "Stay Well, Go Well" in Shona. As the song is about parting, it is a popular song to be sung at funerals, though it can also be sung in other contexts.

  7. 03/20/2023

    Singing for Long Covid Support

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 3, we welcome Pauline Waugh, a practice nurse who co-founded the singing for breathing charity The Cheyne Gang and Long Covid Support Scotland; Dr Keir Philip who is a clinical research fellow at Imperial College London who led a research study on singing and Long Covid during the pandemic, and Gareth Williams, a Glasgow-based composer and song writer who has been involved as a composer in residence in Scottish Opera’s ‘Breath Cycle’ projects working with individuals with cystic fibrosis in 2014 and more recently on a project for people suffering with long covid symptoms. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, the Principal Investigator of the Network. The show’s producer and editor is Sophie Boyd. Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned in the episode. More details about the Network Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth Key links The Cheyne Gang: https://www.thecheynegang.com/ Long Covid Support Scotland: https://www.longcovid.scot/support Scottish Opera’s Breath Cycle Project: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/breath-cycle/   Scottish Opera, Breath Cycle II, The Covid Composers Songbook: https://www.scottishopera.org.uk/join-in/breath-cycle/the-covid-composers-songbook/. Breath Cycle – Singing and Cystic Fibrosis: http://www.breathcycle.co.uk/. NHS Your Covid Recovery: https://www.yourcovidrecovery.nhs.uk/. Research papers discussed in this episode are linked on the project website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/podcast/series-2/episode-3-singing-for-long-covid-support/

  8. 03/13/2023

    Season 2, Episode 2: Singing and Postnatal Wellbeing

    Show Notes On Season 2, Episode 2, we welcome Professor Rosie Perkins, who is Professor of Music, Health, and Social Science at the Royal College of Music, Seraph Davidson, a Singing Mamas trained song leader, and Laura Hill, who has established a new Paisley-based singing group, MotherVoices. The show is presented by Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, who is Principal Investigator of the Network. The shows producer and editor is Sophie Boyd. Below, we have provided links to resources mentioned on the episode. More details about the Network Website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Get in touch: singing-for-health@rcs.ac.uk Twitter: @ScotSingHealth If you liked this episode, please tweet us with your thoughts and add #connectionnotperfection. Key links Details on Rosie Perkin’s ‘Music and Motherhood’ project: https://www.rcm.ac.uk/research/projects/musicandmotherhood/. Singing Mamas: https://www.singingmamaschoir.com/. MotherVoices: NHS, 5 Steps to Mental Wellbeing: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/self-help/guides-tools-and-activities/five-steps-to-mental-wellbeing/. NHS Advice on Postnatal Depression: https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/post-natal-depression/overview/. Breathe Arts Health Research: https://breatheahr.org/. Melodies for Mums, Breathe Arts Health Research: https://breatheahr.org/programmes/melodies-for-mums/. Pandas: https://pandasfoundation.org.uk/. Happity: https://www.happity.co.uk/. Research: For a full list of published research connected to this episode, please visit our website: https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/ Music featured in the episode: Intro music: Free Over the Fields (ID 1622) by Lobo Loco (licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License) Outro music: Famba Naye sung by the Dennistoun Cheyne Gang, recorded by Sophie Boyd. Famba Naye is a folk song that comes from Zimbabwe and is sung in the Shona language.  "Famba Naye" means "Stay Well, Go Well" in Shona. As the song is about parting, it is a popular song to be sung at funerals, though it can also be sung in other contexts.

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Welcome to the Scotland’s Singing for Health Podcast, produced by the Scotland’s Singing for Health Network. Singing for Health groups support the management of a range of conditions and in each episode of the podcast, we will be talking to singers, singing group leaders, researchers and medical practitioners to find out more about the benefits of singing and what singing for health activities are taking place all around Scotland. For more information, please visit out website https://portal.rcs.ac.uk/scotland-singing-for-health-network/.

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    Scotland's Singing for Health Podcast
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    2022 - 2024
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