Singing Makes Us Happy

We are off to a great start with our new session, "Winter Wonderland"! With lots of returning singers and several new faces, we have plunged right in to new songs, vocal technique, harmony and choreography.
We are SO happy to be singing together again!
WHY? You ask?
Well, actually the following is a great article found on TIME.com that answers that very question!

"When you sing, musical vibrations move through you, altering your physical and emotional landscape. Group singing, for those who have done it, is the most exhilarating and transformative of all. It takes something incredibly intimate, a sound that begins inside you, shares it with a roomful of people and it comes back as something even more thrilling: harmony. So it’s not surprising that group singing is on the rise. According to Chorus America, 32.5 million adults sing in choirs, up by almost 10 million over the past six years. Many people think  of church music when you bring up group singing, but there are over 270,000 choruses across the country and they include gospel groups to show choirs like the ones depicted in Glee to strictly amateur groups like Choir! Choir! Choir! singing David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World.

As the popularity of group singing grows, science has been hard at work trying to explain why it has such a calming yet energizing effect on people. What researchers are beginning to discover is that singing is like an infusion of the perfect tranquilizer, the kind that both soothes your nerves and elevates your spirits."

Read more: http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/16/singing-changes-your-brain/#ixzz2gae9CsCr