Frankie Armstrong

Session 2 (of 3) : Letting the Breath In, Letting the Voice Out Online
2023-03-10 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/London) | Online
Running across three sessions, Frankie and Darien Pritchard will be running their popular Body, Breath, Voice course online, developed during the pandemic. Each session is 2 hours long.This will be the 12th of this popular series that Frankie and Darien have run together.
£45 for 3 sessions
Further information as a PDF here Body-breath-voice March 23

International Women’s Day concert
2023-03-08 00:00 | Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park Road, London, NW1 7AY, United Kingdom
Frankie will be performing as part of Thank Folk for Feminism @ Cecil Sharp House in London.

Session 1 (of 3): The Earth in our Voices
2023-03-03 10:00 - 12:00 | Online
Across three sessions, Frankie and Darien Pritchard will be running their Body, Breath, Voice course online, developed during the pandemic. Each session is 2 hours long. This will be the 12th of this popular series that Frankie and Darien have run together.
£45 for 3 sessions
Further information as a PDF here Body-breath-voice March 23

Frankie hopes to be in Australia!
2022-11-05 00:00 - 2023-01-31 00:00
Frankie hopes to be in Australia from 5th November 2022 to 31st January 2023
Where there will be some workshop and concert events
If you have any enquiries please email Frankie.

Voice Leaders Training (Residential week)
2022-10-21 18:30 - 2022-10-28 14:00 | Kinnersley Castle, Kinnersley Castle, Kinnersley, Hereford, HR3 6QF
Led by Frankie and Sarah Harman, with visiting tutor Darien Pritchard
details training page

DATES: 21st to 28th October 2022
TIMES: The course starts with supper at 6.30pm on the first day. You can arrive from 4pm to settle into your room. We finish after lunch, at 2pm the final day.
VENUE: Kinnersley Castle, Kinnersley, Hereford, HR3 6QF
COST: The total course fee is £1470. This consists of:
A non-refundable deposit of £300 to reserve your place. Final payment to be paid 8 weeks before the course starts.
ACCOMMODATION: Accommodation is in twin or single rooms in the Abbey’s guest house. Bathrooms are shared and some rooms have sinks.
FOOD: is delicious, freshly cooked vegetarian.
For Special Diets, contact the Abbey at least one week before the course. Abbey Sutton Courtenay, 01235 847401 admin@theabbey.uk.com
ACCESS: For access enquiries, contact Abbey Sutton Courtenay direct.
LOCATION: Detailed information on Abbey Sutton Courtenay can be found on their website www.theabbey.uk.com. The nearest bus and train stations are at Didcot Parkway (from where a taxi or bus can be taken). We will give you fellow parti- cipant’s contact details close to the course time to facilitate lift sharing.

Songs to Stir Action for Peace (Live on Zoom)
2022-10-06 19:30 - 22:30
Frankie Armstrong and Friends, featuring Peggy Seeger, Jim Woodland, Davies and Daughters, and Boff Whalley and The Commoners Choir.
This promises to be a great evening and we are especially delighted that Peggy Seeger, another of our long-standing MPD Patrons, has generously agreed to take part. Frankie and Peggy go back a very long way, from when they first sang anti-Vietnam War songs together, so it will be an exciting moment to have these two legendary activists and folk singers back on the same platform – albeit virtual!
Peggy has scarcely had time to draw breath since returning earlier this year from a hugely successful ‘First Farewell’ tour with her son, Calum MacColl, in which she travelled all round Britain and Ireland, performing a total of 43 concerts.
More are planned in September with her other son, Neill.
Also performing in this concert will be:
Jim Woodland, singer, songwriter and playwright.
Davies and Daughters, a family female a capella trio singing songs from the British and European folk traditions in their own unique harmony arrangements, as well as original songs. They sing in folk clubs, festivals, climate emergency events and recently at peace vigils for Ukraine.
Boff Whalley and the Commoners Choir, a remarkable community choir from Leeds tackling social injustice in all its forms. The choir’s founder, Boff Whalley is a musician and writer, former lead guitarist of Chumbawamba and currently working on a project with Welsh National Opera.

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Concert spots and workshops at Whitby Folk Week
2022-08-20 00:00 - 2022-08-26 00:00 | Whitby Folk Week, Whitby, West Yorkshire
Frankie will be featuring in concerts and will also run voice workshops

Workshop at AOMO Conference
2022-08-18 10:00
Finding Our Voices as Activists
Workshop – with Frankie Armstrong and Darien Pritchard
at AOMO Conference, Liverpool, Thursday 18th August
AoMO2024 Nancy, France (21st-24th August 2024): Deadline for Contributions Extended!

How can we keep our energy and our commitment to activism going at a time such as this? By raising our voices together.
We need a belief in our right to make ourselves heard, and we need to find a full-bodied voice that matches our desire to be heard. This workshop is designed to help everyone (regardless of past experience) to find a free, powerful and expressive voice. Frankie, a singer and voice teacher, will be joined by her partner Darien Pritchard, a massage and flexibility teacher, to explore how using the body and breath contribute to finding a vibrant voice, combining ease with power.
We aim to create an enjoyable, supportive ,nonjudgemental atmosphere – with the emphasis on exploration, discovery and play – not “getting it right”. No prior experience is required, just wear loose comfortable clothes for gentle exercises, and bring a water bottle and an open heart and mind.
Frankie has been helping people to ‘find’ their voices for 47 years, as well as being a singer in the peace, women’s and social justice movements since the 1960s.
Workshop: 10am to 1pm, 18th August 2022
Tickets: £50
For further information and Bookings: please contact Darien Pritchard darien.pritchard@gmail.com

Keynote presentation at AoMO International Conference Liverpool
2022-08-18 08:00 - 17:00
Voicing Activism
Frankie Armstrong – Keynote talk
at AOMO Conference, Liverpool , Thursday 18th August
AoMO2024 Nancy, France (21st-24th August 2024): Deadline for Contributions Extended!

Why is it we talk about a people, an oppressed minority, or indeed an oppressed majority (women) “finding their voice”?
From the suffragettes, through the anti-apartheid movement and Greenham Common and many other political movements, it is raising their voices together that has helped them both to keep in the struggle and to be heard. It may be an individual voice such as Victor Hara in Chile, or the collective voices of the children of Soweto, but it is the quality of the voice that called to Frankie. It was Pete Seeger in the 1950s that stirred Frankie into this realisation, with songs that spoke to both the head and the heart.
Since then she has been singing songs that are an expression of working people, songs from women’s lives, songs of people struggling against oppression, of daughters against tyrannical fathers (in the folk tradition), and about the environment or social inequality.
In 1975, she began running voice workshops. Her teaching is aimed at helping others find the same sense of energy and power of communication that she experienced as a solo singer.
In her keynote presentation, she’ll also speak about her feeling that the beauty and power expressed through voice can engage the artistry available to all of us.
Why is it we talk about a people, an oppressed minority, or indeed an oppressed majority (women) “finding their voice”?
From the suffragettes, through the anti-apartheid movement and Greenham Common and many other political movements, it is raising their voices together that has helped them both to keep in the struggle and to be heard. It may be an individual voice such as Victor Hara in Chile, or the collective voices of the children of Soweto, but it is the quality of the voice that called to Frankie. It was Pete Seeger in the 1950s that stirred Frankie into this realisation, with songs that spoke to both the head and the heart.
Since then she has been singing songs that are an expression of working people, songs from women’s lives, songs of people struggling against oppression, of daughters against tyrannical fathers (in the folk tradition), and about the environment or social inequality.
In 1975, she began running voice workshops. Her teaching is aimed at helping others find the same sense of energy and power of communication that she experienced as a solo singer.
In her keynote presentation, she’ll also speak about her feeling that the beauty and power expressed through voice can engage the artistry available to all of us.

Voice workshops and concerts at Sidmouth Folk Festival
2022-08-02 00:00 - 2022-08-03 00:00 | Sidmouth Folk Festival, Sidmouth, EX10 8XR
Frankie will be taking part in Sidmouth Folk Festival, (July 29-August 5)

Voice Leader Modular Training (Part 2)
2022-07-01 00:00 - 2022-07-04 00:00 | The Gasworks Studio, 27 Narroways Rd,, St. Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9XB, United Kingdom
1st to 4th July 2022

Voice workshop at Tate Modern
2022-06-10 00:00 - 2022-06-11 00:00 | Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG
June 10-11 Voice workshop as part of International Festival run by TPT (The Performance Theatre) at Tate Modern

Voice Leaders Training (Part 1)
2022-05-13 00:00 - 2022-05-16 00:00 | The Gasworks Studio, 27 Narroways Rd,, St. Werburghs, Bristol, BS2 9XB, United Kingdom
May 13-16 Voice Leaders Trainings (modular , second module 1-4 July)
(2x Friday 2pm-Monday 3.30pm)
Bristol
Led by Frankie and Sarah Harman, with visiting tutor Darien Pritchard
details training page
Voice Leaders Training

Guest singer at Cellar Folk club
2022-05-07 20:15 - 22:00 | Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London, WC1X 8JR
Frankie is guest singer at Cellar Folk club
(Tube stations: King’s Cross, Russell Square and Chancery Lane.)

Reimagining Ageing
2022-03-25 18:30 - 22:30 | Persistence works Studios, 21 Brown St, Sheffield, S1 2BS
Frankie is singing as part of closing celebrations for the photographic exhibition Hidden Depths – photographed by Laura Page
info@artspace.org.uk

MPD concert (Musicians for Peace and Disarmament)
2022-03-24 19:30 - 22:00 | Online
Frankie with Rory McLeod, Jim Woodland Janet Russell and choirs, and Michael and Reina Reinstein
Online concert to celebrate the first meeting of the nations which signed up to Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) in January 2021.

Adventures in Voice (3 x 2 hours)
2022-03-19 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Adventures in Voice (3 x 2 hours), 10am-12noon on Saturdays
– March 19th, March 26th, April 9th

Peggy Seeger and Calum McColl concert
2022-03-13 19:00 - 22:00 | Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AG
Green Ribbons opening concert for Peggy Seeger and Calum McColl

Green Ribbons workshop on unaccompanied singing
2022-03-13 14:30 | Kings Place, Kings Cross, London, N1 9AG
Workshop by members of Green Ribbons

Green Ribbons concert
2022-03-12 07:30 - 21:15 | Chapter Arts Centre, Market Rd, Cardiff, CF5 1QE
Concert – Frankie with Green Ribbons
Chapter Arts Centre, Market Place, Cardiff

MAW live concert (Musicians Against War)
2022-02-18 08:00 - 17:00 | Cornerstone Arts Centre, 25 Station Road, Didcot, Oxon, OX11 7NE
Frankie is taking part in An Evening of Music, Poetry and Talk – Celebrating Women’s voices in protest- alongside the exhibition ‘the Glorious Art of Peace’ see flyer and link

Body-Breath-Voice course (3 x 2 hours)
2022-01-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom
Body-Breath-Voice course (3 x 2 hours), 10am-12noon on Saturdays
– January 22nd, February 5th, February 12th
With Frankie Armstrong and Darien Pritchard

Body-Breath-Voice course
2021-10-23 11:00 - 13:00 | Online

Natural Voice Leaders Training - Week long residential
2021-10-08 - 2021-10-15 | Abbey Sutton Courtenay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 4AF
Abbey Sutton Courtenay:
• ACCOMMODATION: is in twin or single rooms in the Abbey’s guest house. Bathrooms are shared and some rooms have sinks.
• FOOD: is delicious, freshly cooked vegetarian.
For Special Diets, contact the Abbey at least one week before the course.

ACCESS: For access enquiries, contact Abbey Sutton Courtenay direct.

Abbey Sutton Courtenay, 01235 847401 admin@theabbey.uk.com
• LOCATION: Detailed information on Abbey Sutton Courtenay can be found on their website www.theabbey.uk.com. The nearest bus and train stations are at Didcot Parkway (from where a taxi or bus can be taken). We can help to facilitate lift sharing close to the course time.
TIMES: The course starts with supper at 6.30pm on Friday 8th October, 2021. You can arrive from 4pm to settle into your room. We finish after lunch, at 2pm on Friday 15th October 2021.

COST: The total course fee is £1470. This consists of:

A non-refundable deposit of £300 to reserve your place.
A further payment, minimum £500 by 16th July 2021
Final payment to be paid by 13th August 2021.

Adventures in Voice
2021-09-25 11:00 - 13:00 | Online

Walk to Greenham Commemoration -Cardiff
2021-08-26 19:30 - 23:00
Walk to Greenham commemoration
Frankie taking part in 40-year commemoration of the start of the Greenham peace march, starting in Cardiff, Wales

Frankie with Robb Johnson and Mike Reinstein - Brighton
2021-08-05 19:30 - 23:00
Concert, live
5 August
MPD, Brighton (7.30pm)
Frankie with Robb Johnson and Mike Reinstein in a live concert for Musicians for Peace and Disarmament in commemoration of the bombing of Hiroshima – later to be put on youtube

Voice Workshop for Sidmouth Folk Festival
2021-07-30 08:00 - 2021-08-04 17:00
Online Workshop
30 July – 4 August
Frankie will be doing a Voice Workshop for Sidmouth Folk Festival (exact date & time tbc)

Frankie with Green Ribbons - Cardiff
2021-07-25 19:00 - 22:00
Concert, live
25 July (tbc)
Cardiff, Wales (7.30pm)
Frankie with Green Ribbons (Debbie Armour, Alisdair Roberts and Ben “Jimwoo’ Webb)

Frankie with Green Ribbons - London
2021-07-24 19:30 - 22:00
Concert, live
London (7.30pm)
Frankie with Green Ribbons (Debbie Armour, Alisdair Roberts and Ben “Jimwoo’ Webb)
