Rochdale Music Service Youth Choir
Rochdale Music Service Youth Choir is a non-auditioned, mixed-gender choir of young people, who teamed up with poet and playwright Liz Mytton to create a powerful text highlighting themes of friendship and authenticity.
Let’s Sing 26
Let's Sing 26 is a choir based in Leeds, made-up of female leisure-time singers who come together to sing and have fun. The group worked in collaboration with poet Princess Arinola Adegbite to create a text, which was reimagined as a composition in collaboration with composer Michael Betteridge.
Hull Freedom Chorus
Hull Freedom Chorus is a massed project-based choir of more than 3000 singers. A total of 36 took part in the Voices Weaving project, creating a poem with writer Cassandra Parkin, which was set to music in collaboration with Michael Betteridge.
The Mere Singers
The Mere Singers, a Shrewsbury-based community choir, created a text rooted in the natural world, teamwork, togetherness, and the geography of their local surroundings, in collaboration with poet Emma Purshouse. Composer Michael Betteridge worked with the choir to create the choral piece.
Derbyshire Community Male Voice Choir
Derbyshire Community Male Voice Choir enjoys singing, raising money for good causes and having fun. They decided to push themselves out of their comfort zone to take part in the Voices Weaving co-creation project, and worked with poet SAF-S2E to create a text touching on themes of male friendship and strength. They brought this to life, musically, in a new composition created in collaboration with Michael Betteridge.
Electric Pink Voices
Electric Pink Voices is an LGBTQ+ choir based in Blackpool, celebrating music, creativity and connection. They worked with mandla, a Zimbabwean-born, agender and queer writer, performer, curator, dramaturg and occasional producer to co-create a new song, in collaboration with composer Michael Betteridge, and captured this in a music video.
Asylum Link Community Choir
Written with contributions from, and inspired by, Asylum Link Community Choir.
Grandmother's Daff is a choral poem, inspired by a collaboration with the Asylum Link Merseyside Choir. It draws inspiration from the meaningful objects in their lives, exploring the personal significance and stories behind them through music and verse.
Bradford Friendship Choir
Bradford Friendship Choir is a community of singers who support, and include, refugees and people seeking asylum. Their Voices Weaving project touches on themes of birdsong and taking flight, using English, Farsi and Arabic, languages spoken by many of the choir members, to share a story of optimism through poetry and song. The text was written in collaboration with Ali Al-Jamri, and the music was composed in collaboration with Michael Betteridge.