STREET CHOIRS FESTIVAL JUNE 14th
As part of the ‘City of Culture Year’, local Bradford Choirs- Bradford Voices, Ben Rhydding, Silsden Singers & Bradford Friendship Choir, are pleased to welcome the 41st Street Choir Festival. The weekend will be shared with ‘Windrush Generations’- Carnival of Culture.
First held in Sheffield in 1984 as the ‘National Street Band Festival’ the Street Choirs Festival brought together musicians who played in the signature marches and protests of a politically turbulent decade. The intention of the festival is to put music into protest to make it more creative, joyful and thought provoking.
The festival has expanded to welcome community choirs who sing together for the love of singing. The range of Street Choirs includes women’s choirs, asylum seeker choirs, anarchist choirs, socialist choirs, , LGBTQ choirs, , choirs singing to raise awareness of human rights, social justice, environmental justice, climate justice and other campaigns.
During the past forty years the festival has evolved and grown to bring musical performance to the streets. With its roots in the North of England, the Festival has blossomed.
It has been hosted by community choirs across the UK, from Edinburgh to Brighton, Aberystwyth to Whitby and in 2026 we will travel to Scotland, Dumfries and Galloway.
Bradford has hosted the festival twice, previously in 1999 & 2005 and is very much looking forward to welcoming everyone again.
The weekend includes a full programme of street singing, concerts and workshops.
The festival’s visiting choirs, from across the UK, will assemble in City Park on Saturday 14th June and will be formally welcomed to the event and the city.
We will gather for a mass sing for an amazing and uplifting experience of over 40 choirs, between 800 – 1000 people, singing together in 4-part harmony. Singing songs of Peace, Unity and Solidarity.
We will sing around the city centre, and choirs will showcase their songs at St.Georges Hall, one of the UK’s oldest concert halls. www.stgeorgeshall
Bradford is one of the first places in the UK to be recognised as a City of Sanctuary and has always welcomed people seeking a safe place of refuge, it is also the only city in the UK with a Peace Museum which is now housed in Salts Mill, Saltaire, so it is a fitting venue for this wonderful Festival.
The ambitious regeneration programme is reshaping Bradford and is set to be an amazing backdrop to our singing weekend. www.future-bradford.co.uk
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