Newcastle Hospital Singers
Newcastle Hospitals Singers (formerly GNCH Singers) is a singing group for Newcastle Hospital Trust staff, volunteers and former staff. Led by community musician, Laura Reavley, the group meet every week at the RVI chapel to sing together for fun and to support wellbeing and regularly perform across Newcastle Hospitals.
Singing together has many proven health and wellbeing benefits from lowering cortisol and relieving stress, strengthening our immune systems, as well as improving breathing and lung capacity. The Singers welcome all voices and singing abilities; they sing a bit of everything from popular songs, folk, musicals, Geordie classics to feel-good tunes.
Meet the musician
Laura Reavley is a community musician based in the North East, working in music facilitation within community and educational settings. Laura delivers ‘singing for health & wellbeing’ programmes for staff groups, hospital inpatients, adults with Dementia, and for families with children under five.
Laura previously worked at the Glasshouse across multiple learning and participation programmes, facilitating a wide variety of participatory music activities and co-leading training in Early Years Music and SEND music activity.
Laura also teaches Piano and Woodwind, and is Musical Director at Sax on the Tyne, a community Saxophone band based in Newcastle upon Tyne.
Singing for Lung Health
Newcastle Singing for Lung Health is a singing programme designed for people with long-term respiratory and lung conditions across Newcastle. We host 12-week singing programmes within community settings and one-off sessions for community support groups.
Sessions support participants to practice simple and fun vocal exercises and sing together to improve respiratory strength; learn ways to manage symptoms of breathlessness; and feel part of a supportive community. Singing together in a group is a great way to improve physical health and emotional wellbeing; it has been proven to have benefits such as relieving stress, anxiety and strengthening our immune systems.
Newcastle Singing for Lung Health is led by local singer-songwriter, Liz Corney, a trained Singing for Lung Health practitioner.
If you or a patient would like to get involved with Newcastle Singing for Lung Health please register your interest.
Meet the musician
Liz Corney is a musician, songwriter and facilitator from the North East of England delivering projects and commissions with New Writing North, Equal Arts and We Make Culture.
Her work includes composing music for WhippetUp CIC and their touring puppet shows, and the Care Home Choir; the songs for which were performed by the Northern Sinfonia Chorus. She has written music with prisoners from HMP Frankland and devised and lead Generators We Create songwriting program, among various other projects.
As a performer Liz sings with The Cornshed Sisters, who have supported Elbow and The Proclaimers, and played keys for Field Music on their tours in the UK, Europe and the US as well as major UK festivals. In October 2024, Liz released her latest solo album, We Need New Eyes.
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