From Pub to Pulpit to Club 2023 - 23 June 2023

FROM PUB TO PULPIT TO CLUB 2023 FROM PUB TO PULPIT CONCERT CROYDON MINISTER

Friday 23 June

WITH BROOMDASHER AND CORACLE AND THE WHOLE AUDIENCE

Two unique and imaginative events show how classical composer Vaughan Williams turned folk songs into hymns by using the best pub tunes of his day – and then challenges aspiring young songwriters to turn the same folk tunes into rap; hip hop; dub; afrobeat and grime songs for today’s young audiences.

It’s an exciting and imaginative community project for Croydon’s London Borough of Culture programme, bringing together something very old and something very newbuilt around the musical practice of “Sampling”.

From Pub to Pulpit to Club is run by Croydon Minster as part of the Culture Year. Tonight’s concert sees the whole audience joining in to turn folk songs into traditional hymns and a competition for aspiring young songwriters to turn those same folk songs into rap; hip hop; or another modern style appeal today’s young audiences runs through the summer.

The Club competition encourages aspiring composers to write and record themselves via online/phones/ studios, sampling from the same folk songs that Vaughan Williams adapted for the hymns.

All entries will be available to listen to on a special web page managed by Croydon Music and Arts, a service within Croydon Council that works to ensure children and young people in the borough have access to creative opportunities.

The best entries will have their song professionally recorded at Croydon’s White Hut Studios. Runners up get a song writing masterclass and mentoring. The song writing judges are all from Croydon – Afrobeats singer, songwriter and producer Silvastone; dance group BirdGang’s creative director Simeon Qsyea; rap artiste Civil; singer and musician Anna Tam, now a member of Coracle who will be performing in the Minster concert, and Bishop Rosemarie, the Bishop of Croydon and Project Director John Palmer.

London Borough of Culture is a Mayor of London initiative, with support from Arts Council England and National Lottery Heritage Fund. The This is Croydon programme is being delivered through a unique collaboration between the cultural organisations and people of the borough in partnership with Croydon Council