Dear friends and colleagues,
The SCT “Big Sing” is coming together as our contribution to Bradford UK City of Culture 2025.
Hosted in the “Cathedral of Congregationalism”, the marvelous building erected by Sir Titus Salt, designed by noted Bradford architects Mawson and
Lockwood, we will be offering an afternoon and evening of musical splendour.
The Big Sing will commence at noon with a feast of music by Hall Royd Brass Band, a local brass band associated with Northcliffe Local Ecumenical
Partnership.
Then local schoolchildren will sing some excellent “Assembly Bangers” led by John Froud, local composer and Director of the Zephaniah Trust,
based in Shipley. The Trust works with over 60 schools in Bradford and the Spen Valley.
Abigail Baylis, an opera singer based in Birmingham, but who grew up in Shipley, will delight is with some classical music.
Viv Brealey and Cath Hardy are drawing together local church musicians to lead us through the decades of contemporary Christian music to life our
spirits and enrich our lives.
Interspersed in this feast of music will be items on the famous pipe organ in Saltaire URC with virtuoso accompaniment from other orchestral instruments.
In the evening, at 7.00pm, we will pay tribute to the worship of the time of Sir Titus Salt and feature hymns and songs by composers and musicians
with a Bradford connection. Interspersed in our congregational singing will be the story of how churches and clergy shaped our UK City of Culture
from its early growth in the Industrial Revolution, though until today.
This will be a unique occasion you need to put into your diaries now.
Refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon and evening and you will go home enlightened and revitalised by this celebration of a vital
part of Bradford’s history and contemporary life.
– Shipley Christians Together
Big Sing Organising Group.
