Following the completion of the Metropolitan Cathedral’s Grand Organ Restoration, the Cathedral Music Department is delighted to be able to invite you to sing at their celebratory ‘Come and Sing’ Vivaldi Gloria on Saturday 25th March 2023 at 7pm.
They are thrilled that the Cathedral has joined forces with Liverpool Hope University to host the Universities Group Festival as part of our ‘Come and Sing’ cohort.
This will mean 5 university choirs will join the local community to sing what will be a spectacular concert. To join their ‘Come and Sing’ choir, a small fee of £5 will be payable when you buy a ticket online (students free on production of a valid student ID card).
The concert will be sung in the main space of the Cathedral, and there will be a rehearsal in the Cathedral on the day. All music will be provided, and the dress code for singers is all black.
How to sign up
If you would like to join their ‘Come and Sing’ choir, please purchase a ticket by following this link: www.ticketsource.co.uk/metcathedral.
If you have trouble using the link above, please email j.watson@metcathedral.org.uk (Choral Director, Metropolitan Cathedral) to register your attendance.
They do hope you will be able to join them at the Cathedral in the choir for this special concert. Singing in the Metropolitan Cathedral is a thrill, and they know you will have a fantastic time singing with them.
Just as Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven were settling the backbone of Western European musical canon, across the Atlantic, slave songs and Negro spirituals were being created and sung in the American Colonies which would eventually become the newly formed United States.
From spirituals also came ragtime, barbershop, jazz, gospel, blues, rock, and even techno and many forms of electronic music. The universality of this music and all its evolutions of power and beauty has spread globally and changed us all forever.
The newly curated programme by Reginald Mobley in partnership with French pianist, Baptiste Trotignon explores songs by Black composers (such as HT Burleigh, Florence Price, J Rosamond Johnson) on the texts of great poets (Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar).
Cleveland Watkiss is one of the most celebrated British Jazz vocalists of his generation. He won the Ivor Novello award for innovation in 2021, the Boisdale Music Award as Best Jazz Artist of the Year 2022 and has been awarded an MBE for his services to music.
Cleveland will be celebrating Jamaica’s long history of pioneering musical sounds. He and his band will bring to life some of the greatest songs written by Jamaican legends from mento, ska and reggae to dub and roots.
With classic tracks from legendary artists including Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and Delroy Wilson, The Great Jamaican Songbook tells poignant stories about the times and the culture, with a deep and infectious rhythm.
The band are a who’s who of celebrated UK jazz, pop, reggae and funk legends, each with their own strong reputation both within these scenes and way beyond.
Milap presents one of India’s most celebrated and undisputed stars of Indian classical music, Bombay Jayashri as she returns to England for the first time in over 10 years to perform her signature programme of Carnatic compositions and improvisations.
Jayashri will perform alongside a stellar ensemble – H N Bhaskar (Violin), Sai Giridhar (Mridangam) and Giridhar Udupa (Ghatam) – all of whom are considered amongst the finest Carnatic musicians. Bombay Jayashri is known for her distinctive vocal range and quality, her incredibly varied repertoire of songs from various Indian languages and is frequently a headliner at major Indian music festivals.
This concert will last approximately 2 hours 35 minutes (including interval).
Sarah Jane Morris Sings The Beatles with the Solis String Quartet.
The sublime musicianship of the Solis String Quartet and their magical arrangements of The Beatles’ great songs have been a gift to singer Sarah Jane Morris. Fashioned with absolute respect, their collaboration enhances the classical status of The Beatles’ art and provides their public with a sense of treasures rediscovered.
Already launched in Italy to unanimous critical acclaim, All You Need Is Love comes to the UK in the Spring (March 2023) where audiences in Liverpool, Manchester, London, Hastings and Milton Keynes will experience this extraordinary re-invention of songs which quickened the senses and transformed popular music back in the 1960s.
Sarah Jane’s four octave range from booming baritone to poignant soprano combines with the funky, dramatic, sonic factory of a contemporary string quartet at the height of their powers. These are musicians for whom the tag “chamber music” no longer applies.
Sarah Jane was a little young to have experienced ‘Beatlemania’, but she can claim some Liverpool roots of her own, since her father was the boy scout chosen to carry a pair of scissors for King George V when the Mersey Tunnel was opened in 1934. Sarah Jane has worked with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra performing a cycle of Kurt Weill songs and starred in the 1994 production of Sheldon Epps’ Blues in the Night at Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre. In March she returns to Liverpool here at the Yoko Ono Lennon Centre, where she is sure to confirm her contribution to the story of musical Merseyside as she and the Solis Quartet bring The Beatles back to life in Liverpool.
Libyan pioneer Ahmed Fakroun will play his first UK concert at Liverpool Philharmonic’s Music Room in 2023.
Presented in partnership with Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, the star has seen a revival over recent years as his music has been rediscovered and sampled by artists including David Byrne and Bat for Lashes.
A ground-breaking artist, Fakroun is a purveyor of Arab melodies and western electronic music. In the 1980s, a promising career looked set to begin with the release of his acclaimed album Mots D’Amour, but international sanctions displaced many Libyans and curtailed his superstardom in the Arab world. Fakroun disappeared altogether in the 90s.
Now, almost forty years on, he is beloved for his unique blend of new-wave, synthpop, and disco infused with the folk sounds and melodies of his homeland. Fakroun has become a rediscovered star in the western world thanks to renewed attention from the electronic community and appreciation with a dancefloor resurgence.
The Master of the Maghreb brings his glittering Saharan sheen to Liverpool Philharmonic for his first ever UK show.
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
Bringing together six of the UK’s top musicians across Jazz and Indian music genres, the Milap Indo-Jazz Club will come together to present a completely new sound and vibe, as they kick-off the Liverpool International Jazz Festival’s tenth anniversary.
Audiences can expect richness, complexity, improvised grooves and amazing artistry, as they witness the premiere of the ensemble.
Specially curated for LIJF – and the result of ten years of creative collaboration between Milap and The National Youth Jazz Collective – the group will feature Milap’s artist in residence Kousic Sen (tabla), Issie Barratt (baritone sax), Rowland Sutherland (flute), Jonathan Mayer (sitar), Olivia Moore (violin) and winner of the Best Jazz Act at the 2012 MOBO Awards, Zoe Rahman (piano).
What makes you, you? Is there a part deep inside of you that no one understands?
Have you found your tribe or are you a unique human being? Or is it more complicated than that? In the last few decades a combination of individualism, the internet and the culture war has, for many of us, brought our feelings about our own and other people’s identity to the fore.
Grayson Perry, white, male, heterosexual, able bodied, English, southerner, baby boomer and member of the establishment, takes a mischievous look at the nature of identity in his new show that will make you laugh, shudder, and reassess who you really are.
Merseyside hero Ian Prowse is a guitarist, singer-songwriter, and frontman of Amsterdam and previously the frontman of indie cult band Pele.
Raised on protest songs, influenced by the Celtic sounds that make Liverpool so unique, and inspired by the song writing craftsmanship of Paul Weller, Mike Scott, Bruce Springsteen and Elvis Costello, Ian’s 30-year songwriting career and live shows have gathered him a reputation as the ‘Scouse Springsteen’ amongst his devoted fans.
Fresh off his special guest slot for Elvis Costello on his recent UK tour, Ian will be celebrating the 15th anniversary of his summer shows at Liverpool Philharmonic with an acoustic set of Pele, Amsterdam and Prowse classics, as well as a few surprises.
