Group singing

One of the best part of camp is singing together in our meetings. If you know one or more songs that you would like us to sing, great! We love to learn new songs. They should not be too complicated—that is, not too many words to memorize, and not extremely tricky melodies or rhythms. (NBTSC, however, tends to attract a pretty musical bunch and we’ve pulled off some unusual stuff.) We like sad songs, goofy songs, joyful songs, beautiful songs, funky songs, international songs, rounds, chants. If you have a song to share, talk to our songleaders (specific staff at each session) or to the junior staff (who organize slightly more informal, sometimes last-minute-request, singing during evening meetings). Your options might include:

• Teach and lead a song yourself
• Teach a song to someone else and ask them to teach/lead it
  
• Teach it to other people and have them help you lead it
  
• Bring the words and music and ask someone else to teach and lead it.
  
• Also, you can either provide your own musical accompaniment (guitar or whatever you’ve got), ask a camper or staff person to play guitar (best to give them the chords ahead of time), or sing a cappella.

   

 

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