Harvey works his magic

Oh, we’re a gonna sing (without scores)

Gladstone meets George White: Sam West and Justin Butcher

Get on board, children: the Riverside Singers (Riverside School, Barking)

Ella Sheppard takes charge: Emily Dankworth gives us a D

Roll Jordan Roll: our guest singers from Hackney Community Choir

Though they sing like nightingales … Christina Gill and Wills Morgan

When we get to heaven … Michael Henry will be singing this song

The view from the gods: this is what we call singing to the rafters

And still we rise …

Freedom Song – When Gospel Came to the Empire, by Harvey Brough and Justin Butcher, was performed at the Hackney Empire on Sunday 24 March, 2019. Photographs by Nick Rutter.