Making Music Up in Lights - Da Day Dawn by Love Music Community Choir

Опубликовано: 10 Январь 2025
на канале: Making Music

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The Making Music Up in Lights project aims to showcase the brilliant variety of music our 3,500 member groups have continued making across the UK, even in the face of a pandemic. Formed of 190,000 hobby musicians, our groups perform diverse genres and styles of music at all levels of experience – each music maker’s unique background contributes to the rich tapestry of the leisure-time music sector.

Our next spotlight falls on Love Music Community Choir from Edinburgh, who channel the idyllic Scottish landscape in a stirring rendition of 'Da Day Dawn'!

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About Love Music Community Choir:
Our ethos is to: work hard ~ have fun ~ be welcoming ~ inspire others ~ set our sights high ~ sing great music. The choir is run by Love Music, a charity co-founded by our choir leader, professional composer and educator Stephen Deazley, and managed by a small, dynamic team respected nationally and internationally for their work in music education and inclusion as inspiring music leaders, creators and commissioners of innovative participatory music projects, and producers of international performance work. Love Music works for and with communities and schools and delivers projects to the highest professional standard.

In the spring of 2021, Love Music Community Choir learned 'Da Day Dawn', a setting of the old Shetland fiddle tune of the same name with words by Jane Hazelden, an Edinburgh-based member of Sangstream choir. Jane had written the words while Mairi Campbell was the leader of Sangstream and we were delighted that Mairi joined us remotely from Lismore to perform with us during two rehearsals, as well as recording vocals, fiddle and viola for our recording project. Mairi's daughter Ellen Francis has filmed the island footage and LMCC pianist Dave Milligan has mixed the audio and visuals with recordings contributed by choir members. LMCC is normally 330-strong when based in the Usher Hall, and there is a nod to that time with archive footage from Louise Mather. Around 250 singers joined us online for the spring term and many recorded audio recordings of their parts of the song, which was arranged by our director Stephen Deazley. An intrepid few rose to the challenge of sending footage of them singing and we are delighted to see their faces alongside Mairi's!