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Croydon Minster

Join in and sing to raise the roof at a rousing concert when you’ll turn folk songs into hymns to celebrate the London Borough of Culture.

FROM PUB TO PULPIT – CROYDON MINSTER FRIDAY 23 JUNE AT 7.30PMJoin in and sing to raise the roof at a rousing concert at Croydon Minster when you’ll turn folk songs into hymns to celebrate Croydon Borough of Culture.The From Pub to Pulpit concert features acapella folk group Broomdasher; instrumental trio Coracle; the Minster organ; a choir and the whole audience who sing at the top of their voices.It’s the only tour marking Surrey’s own Vaughan Williams and his 150th birthday this year and has been picked as a “Highlight of the Birthday Year” by The Times; The Guardian; The Daily Telegraph; Gramophone; Folking, Songlines and The Living Tradition Folk magazines.Vaughan Williams was a well-known collector of folk songs, and borrowed folk song tunes he collected from labourers around the country for the tunes of some of the best hymns in the 1906 English Hymnal he edited.You’ll be part of that musical journey, starting with the folk song, going through dance tune variations and climaxing with everyone raising the roof with the hymns: they include “To Be a Pilgrim”, and “I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say”, transformed from the folk songs “Our Captain Calls” and “The Murder of Maria Marten”.The concert is part of the From Pub to Pulpit to Club project, which also includes a songwriting competition for aspiring young composers in the Borough. For full details of the songwriting competition visit this page: https://www.croydonmusicandarts.co.uk/from-pub-to-pulpit

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