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Sense of Sound Choir in Liverpool The Musical

Jennifer John and Sense of Sound Choir are featuring in the unique spectacle, Liverpool The Musical, at the new Echo Arena on Saturday 12th January.

Ringo Starr, Dave Stewart, The Wombats, Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, No Fakin DJ’s, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pete Wylie, Riuven, Shack and Gary Christian are also some of the stars celebrating the Official Opening of the Liverpool Echo Arena this Saturday with an exclusive one off performance of ‘Liverpool The Musical’.

This evening to remember will be brought to life by what shall probably the most unusual line up ever to set foot on one stage; it will fuse special guests with a cast of poets, singers, aerialists, comedians, construction workers and sailors.

Along with specially commissioned film and rare archive footage, Liverpool The Musical will feature music composed by Elgar, John Newton, The Real Thing, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, The Beatles, The Wombats, The Farm and Stravinsky. This will include special rearrangements by No Fakin DJs and The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vasily Petrenko.

Overseeing the proceedings is dynamic duo Nigel Jamieson, whose credits include the opening ceremony for the Sydney Olympics and the unforgettable closing ceremony in the Manchester Commonwealth Games, and Jayne Casey, one of the driving forces behind Liverpool’s world famous Cream and the city’s newly formed Independent District

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Sense of Sound Choir to star in Liverpool Nativity!

Liverpool Nativity

BBC Three marks Christmas 2007 with a nativity play performed live and in public on the streets of Liverpool. This major event will be part of the lead up to Liverpool’s year as European Capital of Culture 2008.

Liverpool Nativity will tell the story of the first Christmas through the music of Liverpool with unforgettable songs being performed by the choir and the characters and a live orchestra with fresh musical arrangements.

Sense of Sound Choir will perform alongside a star-studded cast. Geoffrey Hughes (Coronation Street, The Royle Family, Keeping Up Appearances) plays the Angel Gabriel; Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa) is the villainous Herodia; Jennifer Ellsion (Brookside) is an angel; and Paul Barber (Only Fools and Horses) has been cast as the Innkeeper. Newcomers Jodie McNee and Kenny Thompson, also from Liverpool, will play Mary and Joseph.

This unmissable hour-long event takes place on Sunday 16th December and will be broadcast live on BBC Three from 8pm.

There are no tickets for this event, so if you want to be involved, simply turn up at William Brown Street in the Liverpool City Centre and don’t forget to wrap up warm and bring a torch!

Liverpool Nativity will be broadcast on television at the following times:

16/12/08   20:00   BBC Three   LIVE
16/12/08   23:00   BBC Three   Repeat
23/12/08   22:45   BBC One      Repeat
25/12/08   19:00   BBC Three   Repeat

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Sense of Sound Choir to open the Royal Variety Performance 2007!

Sense of Sound Choir will be opening this year’s Royal Variety Performance where they will be singing with internationally acclaimed singer/songwriter, Seal!

As the only Liverpool company performing in this year’s gala celebrations, it is a huge honour to be part of something so important to the city. The show is taking place at the Liverpool Empire Theatre on Monday 3rd December. The tickets are already sold out, but you will be able to watch the television broadcast on ITV at 8pm on Sunday 9th December.

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BBC Radio 3’s Free Thinking Festival: Words and Music

Following on from the success of last year’s Free Thinking Festival, Sense of Sound’s Jennifer John has been invited to return to BBC Radio 3 to sing in a programme called Words and Music alongside actors Cathy Tyson and Mark McGann and jazz musicians Gwilym Simcock and Tim Whitehead. In addtition, 10/10 will provide the orchestral sounds.

There will be a live recording at BBC Radio Merseyside on Saturday 10th November at 8pm and the show will be broadcast on Sunday 11th November between 8pm and 12pm.

If you are interested in being a member of the audience at the live recording, then please contact Radio Merseyside for ticket information. Tickets are free.

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Plague Songs at The Barbican

Sunday 28th October sees the choir’s return to the Barbican in London to perform in a concert called Plague Songs. The Musical Director is David Coulter and other featured artists include Rufus Wainwright, Imogen Heap, Damon Albarn, Kenny Anderson, Sandy Dillon, Tha Handsome Family, Daniel Knox, Phil Minton, MC Spooka Tobz & Jackapella, June Tabor and Patrick Wolf.

It promises to be an amazing evening with an extraordinary selection of international musical talent exploring the themes of the film Exodus , itself a contemporary retelling of the Plagues of Egypt.
For more information and to book tickets, please visit www.barbican.org.uk or call 0207 638 8891.

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Monkey: Journeys to Paris

Monkey: Journey to the West, the wonderful opera created by Damon Albarn and Chen Shi-Zheng, has travelled to the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris and has taken four Sense of Sound singers with it. Jonathan John, Rosie Bell, Juliet Russell and Jennifer John all feature as vocalists in the production.

The show, which met with fantastic reviews following its debut at the Manchester International Festival earlier this year, opened in Paris last night. The show can be seen in Paris until the 13th October.

For more information or to buy tickets to the performance please visit the Théâtre du Châtelet website.

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Monkey: Journey to the West

Sense of Sound directors, Juliet Russell and Jennifer John, are performing in Damon Albarn’s opera, Monkey: Journey to the West at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.

The production is the launch event for the first Manchester International Festival and is a circus opera for the 21st century, based on an ancient Chinese legend but reworked as a dazzling spectacle involving more than 40 Chinese circus acrobats, vocalists and performing martial artists.

The show runs from 28th June - 7th July and tickets are available from www.manchesterinternationalfestival.com

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Sense of Sound at the Launch of Sing London at the V&A

Sense of Sound will be leading June’s Friday Late at the V&A Museum in London on 29th June.

Celebrating the launch of the Sing London Festival, this is will be an interactive vocal extravaganza like nothing before.

With the emphasis on a cappella singing, the audience will have the opportunity to participate in Indian, Chinese and Japanese workshops; be seduced by operatic “buskers;” witness the wonderful Sense of Sound Choir sing contemporary pop and finally join in an extraordinary vocal “jam” to end the evening’s celebrations.

The event is FREE and starts at 6.30pm, so please come along to experience what promises to be a wonderfully refreshing, inspiring and educational evening of fun

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Singing in Harmony Course - Final Performance

On Tuesday 5th June, our Singing in Harmony course draws to a close in style with a performance by our group of singers at Ginglik, 1 Shepherds Bush Green, Shepherds Bush, London, W12.

Also on the bill are Sense of Sound’s amazing artists, Alena Herel and Juliet Russell. Visit our ‘Singers’ section of the website to have a sneak preview of their wonderful work.

The doors open at 7.30pm with the performance kicking off at 8pm and tickets are an absolute steal at £4 a go.

Last year’s peformance was a resounding success so come on down and feast your ears on this vocal delight!

Please click here to see the flyer

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Syd Barrett Tribute Concert at the Barbican

Wow, what a show!

We are thrilled that the Syd Barrett concert Sense of Sound Choir performed at last week at the Barbican was a brilliant success.

The choir performed on stage with a host of amazing artists including Damon Albarn, David Coulter, Chrissie Hynde, Martha Wainwright, Vashti Bunyan, Kate McGarrigle, Captain Sensible and many others.

The highlight of the evening was the surprise appearances of Roger Waters and Dave Gilmour from Pink Floyd who the choir had the opportunity to sing with in the grand finale.

It was a fantastic experience for all involved in a show of love and talent in honour of the genius of Syd ‘The Crazy Diamond’.

There has also been a tremendous press reaction to the tribute concert which took place last Thursday. Please find a selection of the reviews below…

Times Review

BBC Review

Independent Review

Music OMH Review

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