This is an overview of the eclectic range of works sung by Vox Holloway since 2009. Concert titles shown as links will take you to more information about the works and performance.

2022

Spring

Everything Must Change: Songs of Liberation and Transformation – live concert

Classics from Kurt Weill, Nina Simone, Sheryl Crow, in new settings by Harvey Brough

At St Luke’s, Holloway, on Sunday April 10th

2022

Spring

The Sun Does Shine

Vox Holloway presents a new oratorio based on the inspiring true story of Anthony Ray Hinton, an innocent man who spent 30 years on Death Row

Music by Harvey Brough, lyrics by Justin Butcher

Sunday 27 February at 7pm, St Luke’s Church, Holloway.

Read the reviews: David Hackbridge Johnson: A Vital Retelling

Ben Leapman, Inside Time: Back in the Sunshine

2021

Winter

Sing Christmas with Vox at St Lukes

Autumn

Freedom Song returns to the Hackney Empire

Summer

Return to live performance with Requiem in Blue

Spring

Virtual Vox sings Everything Must Change

From Kurt Weill to Johnny Cash and Nina Simone, a concert that struck every chord of our challenging time

Arranged and directed by Harvey Brough

With soloists Christina Gill and Clara Sanabras

Streamed from Friday 26 March to Friday 2 April

2020

Summer

Virtual Vox sings Liane Carroll and Edward Elgar

Our first term online featured the inspired pairing of jazz standards and originals by Liane Carroll with Edward Elgar’s song cycle Sea Pictures

Directed by Harvey Brough, with rehearsals led by Christina Gill.

Online concert, Saturday 11 July

Featuring:

Soloists: Liane Carroll, Clara Sanabras, Christina Gill, Harvey Brough

Band: James Maddren, drums; Andy Hamill, bass,

Conducted by Harvey Brough

Spring

FREEDOM SONG – streaming and CD release

Music by Harvey Brough, lyrics by Justin Butcher

The amazing true story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers

After our Hackney Empire revival was cancelled due to coronovirus, we decided to celebrate the launch of the CD by streaming our 2019 performance on the day of the concert (March 29), over the Easter weekend (April 10-13) and for two subsequent Sundays.

• Watch the trailer here

Vox sings the Kinks at Shoreditch Town Hall

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of two classic Kinks albums, Ray Davies commissioned composer Harvey Brough to rearrange songs from Arthur, to accompany his triumphant choral version of The Village Green Preservation Society, premiered in 2018.

Voiceovers by Ray Davies

Soloists Clara Sanabras and Rick Leigh

Plus a new doo-wop super group: Naomi Hammerton, Mike Henry, Wills Morgan and Harvey Brough

And the David le Page Ensemble

2019

Christmas Concert

An imaginative programme of Christmas music, with new arrangements of seasonal favourites, plus audience participation.

Featuring: Vox Holloway, children’s choir, piano and brass quartet.

Where: St Luke’s .

When: Sunday 15 December, 2019

Autumn

Music on the Mind

Cl ick here to to help us record it for posterity

6.30pm, Sunday 24 November

by Harvey Brough, libretto by Justin Butcher

A musical exploration of the complex and sensitive issues surrounding mental health

With settings of poems by John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Emily Dickinson and more. Plus a musical interpretation of Kay Redfield Jamison’s ground-breaking
memoir, An Unquiet Mind.

Performed by Vox Holloway Community Choir and the Maudsley Hospital’s Mind and Soul Choir

With soloists Clara Sanabras and Stephan Loges and the David Le Page Ensemble

Summer

The São Paulo Tapes with Monica Vasconcelos

Bossa Nova and Songs of Resistance

In new choral arrangements by Harvey Brough

With Monica Vasconcelos and her band and Vox Holloway Community Choir

1960s Brazilian songs of resistance. Joyful music with a social conscience

At: St Luke’s Holloway,

Sunday 30 June, 2019, 7pm.

Spring

Byrd, Tallis, Richard Farrant …

A Concert of Tudor Music

Directed by Harvey Brough

Performed by Vox Holloway chamber choir

With soloists Clara Sanabras, Lucy Watson, Maurice Wren, Matt Evan Smith

After the rapture of Freedom Song, a moment for quieter contemplation

Spring – Freedom Song

FREEDOM SONG – When Gospel Came to the Empire by Harvey Brough (music) and Justin Butcher (words).

Performed by Vox Holloway and the Hackney Empire choir

The inspiring true story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a group of emancipated slaves who took to the road in 1871 to raise funds for their university and introduced the world to the riches of plantation spirituals.

• In pictures

Sergeant Pepper singalong – open to all

St Luke’s Church, Holloway, Sunday 3 February 2019

Come and sing – SERGEANT PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB

Arrangements made specially for us by David le Page and Harvey Brough. With an afternoon’s expert coaching from Harvey, a chance to sing alongside the celebrated Vox Holloway, with a professional band led by David, and soloist Jeremy (Wallbanger) Taylor.

• Sergeant Pepper Singalong – in pictures

2018

Winter – THE FAURE REQUIEM

Sunday 25 November, 7.30pm, St Luke’s, Holloway

REQUIEM by Gabriel Fauré conducted by James Murray

Plus: INCANTATION OF EDEN by Harvey Brough, libretto by Justin Butcher

With soloists Emily Kirby-Ashmore and Angus McPhee

Autumn – THE VILLAGE GREEN PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Sunday 28 October, St Luke’s, Holloway

A 50th anniversary celebration of the Kinks’ classic album, in a new arrangement by Harvey Brough, with the blessing of Ray Davies.

• In pictures

Summer – SAO PAULO TAPES and Bossa Nova, with Monica Vasconcelos

Sunday 15 July, 7.30, St Luke’s, Holloway

An evening of Brazilian Music with singer Monica Vasconcelos.

Songs of resistance from her acclaimed album The Sao-Paulo Tapes, together with Samba and Bossa Nova classics, in new arrangements by Harvey Brough.

Video link

Spring 2018

THE STONY FIELD

Sunday 20th May St Luke’s, Holloway; Thursday 7th June, St James, Clerkenwell; Saturday 9th June, St Mary’s, Islington

World Premiere of a commission by the Cloudesley Charity, celebrating the life and legacy of Richard Cloudesley whose will – read 500 years ago – continues to provide for the people of Islington.

• Press coverage

• Video: Post concert interviews

THECLA – recording and performance

Performed at St Mary’s Church, Church Street, Stoke Newington, Saturday 17 May. Recorded on Sunday 18 May.

Oratorio about the life of a radical saint, by Harvey Brough, with libretto by James Runcie

Plus Linguis, by Harvey Brough, with a libretto by Tanis Taylor.

Narrator: Janet Henfrey.

Soloists: Clara Sanabras, Mark le Brocq, Rick Leigh, Jo Marshal and Nicholas Garrett.

With Young Vox, and the North Bridge House, Canonbury, Choir

• Listen to an excerpt from the recording here

2017

Spring – LOST AND FOUND

Sunday 26 March

A concert of 18th-century music written for the orphans of London and Venice, featuring Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem, Vivaldi’s Gloria and A Particulare Care by Harvey Brough.

Summer – SUMER IS ICUMEN IN

Sunday 2 July 7, St Luke’s, Holloway

A sparkling selection of music from Medieval to Gothic to Jazz.

Very special guest Liane Carroll and her trio

will be accompanied by the 100 plus voices of VOX on original songs and standards(Skylark, Memphis in June and others arranged by Harvey Brough)

The rest of the programme will consist of English Partsongs by Stanford and Sullivan & Sea Pictures, Sir Edward Elgar’s masterpiece for Contralto and orchestra, newly arranged (last week) for choir, featuring James Murray playing Elgar’s elegant and elaborate piano part.