We are excited to announce that this year's set of Friday Afternoons songs will be premiered and recorded by Scunthorpe Co-operative Junior Choir in July. The new set, composed Joanna Lee and Andy Shepherd will be released in the Summer.
The choir have been rehearsing the songs since January and this weekend receive visits from Joanna Lee, composer, and Friday Afternoons Ambassador Charles MacDougall.
Daniel Fields, the choir's Musical Director says:
We are excited to announce that the next set of Friday Afternoons songs have been written by the brilliant Joanna Lee and Andy Shepherd!
Joanna and Andy have written 12 new songs which will be released in 2022.
The world is full of magic
Hiding out of sight
All it takes is wonder
To let our minds take flight
This afternoon Britten Pears Arts will premiere the ten remaining songs from EVERYTHING by Russell Hepplewhite and Michael Rosen!
The ten new songs will be premiered online at 1pm on the Britten Pears Arts YouTube channel, along with interviews with Russell and Michael. All song resources, including performance and backing tracks, scores and BSL videos are available to download now from the Friday Afternoons Song Bank!
Watch the premiere here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhtdCa21ifg
New Friday Afternoons songs by composer Russell Hepplewhite with texts by former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen to receive online world premiere on 14 May 2021!
EVERYTHING – was due to be premiered in 2020 but had to be postponed because of COVID and only two of the twelve songs were released. The ten unheard Friday Afternoons songs by composer Russell Hepplewhite with texts by renowned children’s author and former Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen will now be premiered on 14 May on Britten Pears Arts’ YouTube channel.
This May we will be premiering the ten remaining songs from EVERYTHING, our newest set written by Russell Hepplewhite and Michael Rosen! The premieres will be held online and will be performed by ten choirs from across the UK and Ireland, selected from our open call in December.
- Amherst School Choir, Kent
- Cornwall County Choirs
- Dublin Youth Choir
- The Grange Choir, Monmouth Boys' Prep
- Lodge Moor Childrens Choir, Sheffield
- The National Youth Choir of Scotland
- Poco Amabile, Cumbria
Our new set of songs, entitled Everything, has been composed by Russell Hepplewhite, with lyrics by Michael Rosen. We have already released 2 songs, Earth and Language. These two songs were premiered during lockdown in a brilliant digital performance by London Youth Choirs!
Following the success of Earth, we're releasing Language, the second song from our upcoming collection EVERYTHING by composer Russell Hepplewhite and Michael Rosen.
"I tried to set the songs so that they could be approached by any child, at any primary school, anywhere..."
Today we’re delighted to launch Earth, the first song from EVERYTHING, our upcoming collection by composer Russell Hepplewhite, with texts by renowned children’s author and former Children’s Laureate
In this strange time, the Friday Afternoons team have been reflecting over everything that's taken place over the last year and looking ahead to some exciting things we've got coming up.
In this video, our Ambassadors look at just some of the things that they've enjoyed from 2019 to 2020.
