Singing Holidays.
The Sunday Times
Small is beautiful
Small-group, sustainable music holidays
Singing Holidays are exquisite and sustainable small-group music holidays for people who love to sing. Whether classical, folk, music theatre, pop or world music, every event is a little jewel.
It’s an opportunity to sing in a stunning location, stay in a beautiful nest and be taught by and perform with some of the best professional musicians from Europe and beyond.
We think it’s the little things in life that matter the most. So whether it’s our 5-night singing holidays or our 7-night singing retreats, we only ever take small groups.
With a small group, we can eat in tiny, choice restaurants where Mamma still cooks the food and stay in cosy, exquisite nests that feel like home.
With a small group, we can create those little, memorable touches that can make all the difference and focus on you as an individual rather than just a face in the crowd.
On a Singing Holiday, you’ll be able to thrive and blossom within a safe and nurturing environment. You’ll feel immediately at ease within a supportive atmosphere of like-minded people.
Singing Holidays is more than a holiday. It’s your opportunity to truly connect with the culture of your destination through music and singing and to be part of a small group of new, lifelong friends who just love to sing.
Backstory
Past singing holidays
A little bird told me
Feefo independent reviews
Perfect!
Singing holidays made me feel very welcome and included as a newbie. Hotels, restaurants and activities were obviously all thoroughly researched and well organised. I was…
Classical Croatia 2023
An exhilarating experience!
I met fabulous new people, made great new friends, found a new singing energy, saw amazing new surroundings. And it was all such great fun! 5Referred…
ABBA Croatia 2023
Ten stars!
I would give Alex and Témi ten stars rather than five. Excellent hotels, lovely restaurants, and lots of terrific singing with the marvellous Robert Dean. Once…
Classical Seville 2022
Fantastic inspirational experience!
Inspiring music, amazing venue, lots of loving care. Loved every moment, thank you so much Témi and Alex. 5Referred to holidayReview on FeefoPrevious ReviewA golden feast…
Marrakech 2023
Got a question?
Read music?
You don’t need to read music to come on a Singing Holiday.
On our choral holidays, we will supply you with online sound files, so you can learn your specific musical line. If you can read music, great – but it’s certainly not a prerequisite.
In many ways, not reading music can give you a certain advantage and on some of our holidays (folk, world, music theatre) our experts will teach you the music by ear when you arrive with only the lyrics as your guide.
Either way – sheet music or not – we’re always on hand to help you into shallower waters if you ever feel out of your depth.
Cultural connections
We love to make cultural connections through music and singing. To that end, we sometimes collaborate with locals and professional musicians and perform together on the final evening.
You don’t really know a place, until you know the people, and nothing facilitates that connection better than singing.
The music we sing includes: classical (from renaissance to present day), folk, music theatre, world music and more besides.
What’s the music?
Singing Holidays are very much bespoke experiences tailored to the group. Because our groups are small, we don’t generally choose the music until we know who’s coming and the distribution of voice types.
Sometimes on our classical choral holidays, we do advertise the music early depending on the location and the size of the group. Contact us for more details if you fancy coming on a Singing Holidays’ event and if knowing the music beforehand is important to you.
Bring the other half.
At Singing Holidays, our passion is to create a fantastic all-encompassing experience: great accommodation, wonderful locations, excellent food and plenty to do.
Even if we took the ‘singing’ out of ‘Singing Holidays’, you’d still have a wonderful experience. If you want to bring your non-singing partner, they can join us. They will have all the same treats in store, minus the singing.
What’s included?
Singing Holidays include everything within the listed price except flights and any drinks we purchased on your behalf outside mealtimes. From pickup to drop-off, we’ll look after you so that you can enjoy your holiday fully.
