Live guitar, violin and vocals
John and Jote play with you, not off a speaker — the music lifts as the room joins in.
Corporate team building in Manchester
Corporate team building in Manchester that ends with the whole room singing together.
John and Jote are Manchester-based musicians who bring relaxed, laughter-filled singalong workshops to offices, conference venues and team away days across the city — live guitar, violin and vocals, familiar songs, and absolutely no singing experience needed.
Based in Manchester Nine community singing groups run locally Sessions for 10 to 200 colleagues
Live musicians
Every colleague included
We come to you
What your Manchester team gets
A workshop, not a worksheet
Most team building in Manchester asks colleagues to compete. A singalong asks them to make something together instead — and almost everybody leaves humming it.
Meet John and JoteFamiliar songs everyone knows
Well-known favourites chosen for the group, so nobody is handed lyrics they have never heard.
Everything brought with us
Instruments, small PA and encouragement arrive with the duo. You book the room, we bring the noise.
No auditions, no experience
Nobody is singled out. Hesitant voices are welcomed in and quietly folded into the sound.
Pick your tempo
Three ways to fit it into your Manchester event
01
30minutes
Conference energiser
A brisk, joyful reset between agenda items for Manchester conference and offsite rooms.
02
60minutes
Team singalong
The sweet spot for departmental get-togethers, Friday finishers and client thank-yous.
03
90minutes
Singing workshop
Time to build parts, try harmonies and finish with a genuine team performance.
Running a Manchester conference, sales kick-off or Christmas do? Tell us the agenda and we will shape the session around it.
Where we work
Across Manchester and the North West
John is a Manchester singer-songwriter who runs nine community singing groups in the region, and Jote trained at the city’s Royal Northern College of Music. We are already local — no travel-day logistics, no overnight stay to justify.
- Manchester city centre
- Deansgate & Spinningfields
- Salford Quays & MediaCityUK
- Trafford Park & the Trafford Quarter
- Oxford Road innovation corridor
- Stockport & Cheadle
- Bolton, Bury & Oldham
- Warrington, Wigan & beyond
Offices, hotel ballrooms, conference suites, studios and away-day venues — if colleagues can stand in a loose circle, we can make a noise in it.
A local alternative
Something different from the usual escape room
Manchester is full of good team days out — escape rooms, quiz nights, puzzle experiences and the like. They are fun, and most teams split into small groups, do their own thing, and go home.
A singalong is the opposite shape: the whole room does one thing at once, with live musicians leading it. Nobody waits for a turn, nobody is left out, and the memory is shared rather than scattered.
Research on group singing points to the same things team managers hope for — people feeling closer, calmer and more positive afterwards. We keep the claims honest and link the studies.
Good to know
- Do colleagues need to prepare?
- No. No rehearsals, no audition, no singing ability assumed.
- What space do you need?
- A room where people can stand comfortably. We bring the instruments and a small PA.
- How many people?
- Small departments up to large conference rooms and away-day groups.
- Who leads it?
- John Blaylock and Jote Osahn — the duo you see on the team page, not a substitute.
Manchester dates fill up