“Singing is the outward manifestation of our souls. [S]inging is not a luxury, it’s not a plug-in, it’s not a nicety, it’s not a small entertainment for lunch time for some of the children, it is every child’s birthright.

And our mission is to bring that back to our 21st-century modern communities.

That singing is not a luxury, it is our children’s birthright.”
– Howard Goodall

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Thanks to my friend Ann, I got to see this keynote address by (and briefly meet) Howard Goodall, the UK’s National Ambassador of Singing.

(How cool a title is that?! *wink*).

Goodall was instrumental in implementing Sing Up, a national, government-funded program dedicated to making “sure that singing is at the heart of every primary school child’s life.”