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About Janet Swain

Janet Swain is a singer, teacher, performer and songwriter. She has founded and directed many community choirs in Sydney, Blue Mountains, Singapore and the Byron Shire, and she has developed a dynamic and original teaching style. These days Janet lives in the beautiful Byron Shire in northern NSW, and her current projects include Big Sing - Own Your Voice, Dynasty8 Chamber Choir, music comedy ensemble The Loveys, and her one to one singing studio. Janet is also a member of Circle Song Australia.This year Janet founded the inaugural Festival of the Voice in Brunswick Heads, which will be an ongoing bi annual event, and she is currently working on a subscription series for 2020.Janet is also developing her one woman show - Delphi Goes Bassooning. Janet sings, plays piano, ukulele and the bassoon.

Big Song Weekly Sessions start in February 2021

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:12:04+11:00January 20th, 2021|Events, News|

Big Song Sessions start again in February - and for the summer term at least, there are a few changes. [...]

Big Song Summer Workshop

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:13:14+11:00January 20th, 2021|Events, News|

Get ready to jump back into singing! Kirra Community Centre is a gorgeous venue overlooking the ocean in Coolangatta, and [...]

Janet’s Pop Up Christmas Carol Choir

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:11:37+11:00November 22nd, 2020|Events, News|

If you are hankering to sing a few Christmas Carols this year - and what a year it's [...]

Big Song Summer Term 2020

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:11:28+11:00October 11th, 2020|News|

Big Song 🎶🎵🐋 10 week term starts Monday 12th October, in Brunswick Heads and Thursday 15th October in Kingscliff. [...]

Big Song Sessions Resume

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:11:17+11:00June 29th, 2020|Events, News|

As we gather to sing upon this land, we acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which we [...]

Big Song Sessions RESUME ON JULY 20, 2020!

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:11:10+11:00June 20th, 2020|Uncategorized|

I’m delighted to announce that Big Song Sessions will be back, live and in person from Monday 20th July (Brunswick [...]

FINAL Big Song online sessions

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:10:43+11:00May 25th, 2020|News|

For the past 8 weeks I have running online singing sessions every Monday and Friday morning. Today is the FINAL [...]

8 Weeks of Iso….

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:10:59+11:00May 24th, 2020|Events, News|

Can any of us believe that it has been about 8 weeks of social distancing, isolation, quarantine. It has been, [...]

Big Song Singing Sessions Online – so far so good!

By Janet Swain|2021-01-21T12:10:28+11:00May 2nd, 2020|Events, News|

When the news about a virus starting hitting the streets in and around Byron Bay, Australia, in mid March [...]

It’s going to be a creative day today

By Janet Swain|2020-04-28T10:50:32+10:00April 18th, 2020|Events, News|

Today I woke up early and had a strong feeling to get to the beach and watch the sun come [...]