SINGING BUILDS COMMUNITY
"To some extent, technology has removed us from singing - you can hear such good singing at the press of a button, so we sing less ourselves," says Professor Jenny Sharples, psychologist and Executive Dean at Victoria University. "But singing ourselves connects us to a different part of our brain. It gives us pleasure. When we're part of a larger group where voices soar together, that's even better. It's a way of improving our wellbeing.