Birds, Horses and Midnight Blues is coming to libraries across Greater Geelong on Saturday to celebrate Book Week through music.
North Children’s Choir will perform original songs inspired by books on August 23 from 10am at Newcomb Library, noon at Corio Library and 11am and 1.30pm at Geelong Library and Heritage Centre.
Conductor and teacher Lucy Jones said the event allowed the choir’s students to explore key book themes and expand their musical skills.
“I’m hoping that the event will create this sense of how books are more than just books in a library and that they can inspire ideas,” she said.
“They normally sing with piano, but this was an opportunity as they were developing their choral skills to try some unaccompanied songs.
“The kids themselves have had a lot of input, rather than just going to a book and putting those lyrics to music, it was more about the kids creating something.
“As a music teacher and conductor, I am looking forward to hearing the kids succeed at a cappella singing because it’s really hard to sing without the accompaniment.
“Books have been the inspiration, which is why it’s called Birds, Horses and Midnight Blues… and those themes were the things that inspired the choristers to write their own lines of poetry.”
Birds, Horses and Midnight Blues is a free event organised by the Bluebird Foundation, a community arts organisation that creates and delivers arts programs.
