Vox Holloway

Vox sending out good vibes to the very wonderful Harvey Brough whilst he gets better ( all the time).

There will be a second screening of Between the Bars on Saturday 13th May at 11.00 at the Finsbury Park Picturehouse.

Between the Bars traces the journey of North London choir, Vox Holloway, as its members tackle a new oratorio, The Sun Does Shine, based on the true story of an innocent man who spent 30 years on Death Row in Alabama. The film explores the challenges posed when art tackles complex social issues such as capital punishment, racial injustice and long term imprisonment.

Made in collaboration with the UK Prison Reform Trust and Arts Council England.

Doors open at 10.45am and we will start promptly at 11am.

The screening of the film will be followed by drinks in the Picturehouse Members’ Bar from 12pm to 1.30pm. To avoid long queues at the bar we will be selling drinks tokens before the film for £5 each using our own card machine. House white/red (125ml), cans of Camden Hells/Ale, pints of Pepsi/Pepsi Max/7UP and bottles of Corona & Erdinger.

We invite you to make a donation to cover the additional costs of hiring the cinema and to help cover our further work with long-term prisoners in the UK. Working with the national Prison Radio Association, we are developing a series of radio programmes, based on The Sun Does Shine, and involving prisoners and former prisoners, that will be streamed into prisons later this year.

https://www.standard.co.uk/esmagazine/vox-holloway-choir-harvey-brough-stanley-kubrick-local-hero-b1075208.html

Harvey has been featured in the Standard this week as their London Local Hero

The Foundling Hospital, established in 1739, was based in Coram Fields until the 1920s and many thousands of ‘abandoned’ children grew up in its care. It attracted artists and musicians as patrons, including George Frideric Handel, who staged many benefit concerts there, one of which featured his Foundling Hospital Anthem.

Harvey Brough was inspired to write his own anthem, A Particulare Care, after visiting the Foundling Museum and reading a note left in 1758 by Florella Burney’s mother which read, ‘Pray let particulare care be taken of this child, as it will be called for again’. This work asks how there can be such poverty ‘in a rich and fruitful land’.

A Fairy Dream was composed in 2009. Harvey interspersed movements from Purcell’s 1692 masque, The Fairy Queen, with new compositions for children in a work that continues to explore the themes of loss and hope – with an added touch of fairy magic.

A Particulare Care was first performed by Vox Holloway in 2012. It is even more relevant today, with poverty and social inequality affecting so many children and families. Refugee families are amongst the most desperate. This concert will raise funds for the work of Safe Passage, an organisation that champions the rights of refugees and displaced people, including child refugees, who are particularly vulnerable.

Vox Holloway, under it’s Director, Harvey Brough, regularly commissions and performs new work, often with a social message. St James’ Church Piccadilly is renowned for its strong commitment both to the arts and to social justice. Soloists: Eloise Irving, Christina Gill, Wills Morgan and Maurice Wren with a Baroque orchestra led by Peter Hanson.

Our very lovely Matt Evan Smith died in October and we are gathering together photos of him. Please send photos of him to us if you have them voxhollowayn7@gmail.com

Here he is back in 2017 getting us all onto the stage and into position – never an easy task!