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		<title>Singing: Your Very Good Health</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2011 04:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just over three years ago, after watching the BBC&#8217;s &#8220;Last Choir Standing&#8221;, I called a friend and said I fancied putting a contemporary choir together. She was to handle the admin side, I&#8217;d be the music monkey. We started small &#8211; 30 people playing small gigs to friends and family while I taught them basic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=462&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gigging in the Theatre from Hell</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 11:46:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a lucky sort. I&#8217;ve gigged in theatres up and down the country, in the West End, overseas and probably in outer space at some point. On my travels I&#8217;ve met wonderful people, talented people, brilliant techies, stunning musos and friendly, helpful theatre staff. I&#8217;ve also met the odd lairy so-and-so and a few giant [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=449&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workaholics Anonymous</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 10:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<title>Smokin&#8217; Idea for Singers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 May 2011 09:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had lunch with an old friend in the week, and was interested to see him smoking what looked like a cigarette but clearly wasn&#8217;t, as I witnessed him dropping liquid into the end of it via a dropper at one point! My friend has been a smoker &#8211; and a singer &#8211; for as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=437&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why old friends are the best</title>
		<link>http://riakeen.wordpress.com/2011/01/22/why-old-friends-are-the-best/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to stay with one of my oldest friends and his partner this weekend. Said friend is the mega-talented Alex Weatherhill (singer, actor, musical director, arranger, vocal coach) with whom I have shared many an adventure on stages across the known universe, and many a vodka. We were instructed in the grand art of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=434&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goodbye, 2010 &#8211; don&#8217;t hurry back!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 17:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well here we are, Christmas Eve 2010. I haven&#8217;t blogged for a while (apologies) so I thought this might be the time to have a look back at 2010 in all its&#8230;.erm&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;glory. I don&#8217;t know about you but I will be more than pleased to see the back of this year, as it&#8217;s not been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=425&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Les Mis 25th Anniversary Tour Magic</title>
		<link>http://riakeen.wordpress.com/2010/10/14/les-mis-25th-anniversary-tour-magic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Oct 2010 14:25:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everything meaningful that needs to be written about Les Mis (and please, can we stop spelling it with a &#8216;Z&#8217;?) has already been written, so I&#8217;m not going to go down that road. All I can do is try to share some of the absolute magic that was this re-staged and re-styled show, in all [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=411&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>M.E? Isn&#8217;t that where you get a bit tired?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was just over ten years ago that the doc told me &#8216;you&#8217;ve got M.E.&#8217;  At that point I remember asking questions (from somewhere within my aching, fuzzy-brained, painfully-slow-moving body) along the lines of &#8216;What&#8217;s that?&#8217; and &#8216;When will it go away? I didn&#8217;t know then that I&#8217;d spend the next two years barely able [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=409&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Playing for Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Summer I am experiencing the strange feeling of not working 16 &#8211; 18 hours a day on the graduation show at BTS. For the last 9 years it&#8217;s been the same gruelling routine each June and July &#8211; a lot of incredibly hard work followed by a few days of performances, ending in an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=402&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voices Unlimited Rock Worcester Again!</title>
		<link>http://riakeen.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/voices-unlimited-rock-worcester-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 13:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ria Keen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Voices Unlimited Contemporary Choir (or at least, about 60 of the 90-strong membership) did three gigs at the Worcester Victorian Fayre yesterday, and absolutely stopped the town dead each time! The first two shows were in (wait for it, oh the glamour!) the M &#38; S loading bay on Worcester&#8217;s historic Friar Street. It [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=riakeen.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4155439&amp;post=385&amp;subd=riakeen&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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