Author Archives: Claire Armitstead

Virtual Vox for everyone

Posted on May 7, 2020

Good news. You can now join the first ever virtual Vox rehearsal on Youtube, free of charge, at any time that suits you, wherever you are in the world, until Friday May 15. We’re singing music by the great Liane … Continue reading →

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Arthur and Village Green Preservation Society – in pictures

Posted on March 2, 2020

We are the Village Green Preservation Society . . . . . . God save Donald Duck, vaudeville and variety We are the Custard Pie Appreciation Consortium Everyone knows the future’s coming . . . … except for those Old-fashioned … Continue reading →

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Welcome

Posted on February 25, 2020

Freedom Song returns to the Hackney Empire In a triumphant new oratorio, composer Harvey Brough and librettist Justin Butcher tell the inspiring story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of freed slaves who took to the road in 1871 … Continue reading →

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Village Green Preservation Society and Arthur

Posted on January 22, 2020

Vox sings the Kinks at Shoreditch Town Hall In the late 1960s, the Kinks released two albums that countered the optimism of the decade with a bittersweet evocation of what had been lost. 1968’s charismatic Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation … Continue reading →

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Help us to record Music on the Mind

Posted on November 23, 2019

Music on the Mind is an meditation of the pain – and the creativity – of mental illness. It is one of the most ambitious projects we have ever undertaken, and also the most important – and after two triumphant … Continue reading →

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