Lee Lawrence

Lee was a ballerina, recorder player and failed violinist as a child, a bedroom singer with the radio as a teen and a keen but shy participant in student flat singalongs as a young adult. After singing to her babies she learnt the value of a receptive audience and then fell into community choir leading by accident. She co-founded the Global Choir and The Muse Trust, created choirs No Strings Attached and Bella Acapella, led Women in Harmony and hosted visiting teachers and the 2004 Acapella Aotearoa Festival in Christchurch.

After a good few years of many musical shenanigans and some jazz singing she had a break. During this time enjoying singing as spiritual practice, busking at her local market and Threshold singing for the dying, she considered herself a recovering choir leader.

Having stepped back into community choir leading this year, she's not sure if she's recovered or relapsed! But is enjoying bringing both the ridiculous and the sublime to groups again.

She believes singing is for everyone. She wants to help return us to our birthright and tradition of the joy, beauty and connection of community singing regardless of experience, ability or confidence. She is also appreciative of the healing power of singing and enjoys creating simple medicine songs for herself and others and singing to those in need of nurturing.

She currently leads the Cherish Threshold Singers and Women in Harmony. She also enjoys her dogs, family, growing things, dancing, Qigong and reading. She has joined the SLNA committee because she knows first hand how much we need support and resources as song leaders, and found the 2024 Lead In so nourishing and wants to see SLNA thrive.

For Lee and Cherish Threshold Singers libraleela@gmail.com

For Women in Harmony, Christchurch https://womeninharmony.wordpress.com/

For more info on Threshold singing www.thresholdchoir.org