Sunderland Male Voice Choir has started an exciting music creation project in Hendon thanks to a generous anonymous £2,000 donation from the community.
The Choir will be creating a series of new songs on the heritage and people of Hendon, which is at the heart of the original Sunderland. 'The Hendon Project' will initially consider music of the following themes:
Sunderland Male Voice Choir is looking to secure additional funding which should allow the creative work to be extended to at least the following themes:
The Hendon Seafarers Mission
The Port of Sunderland
The Choir is planning to showcase the new music when it is developed in a Charity Concert, which is being proposed at Seventeen Nineteen.
Saturday 26 Oct 24 7:00 pm Joint Concert (provisional)
SMVC+Dalesmen Singers
Venue: ? Whitby
Sunday 15 Dec 24 5:30 pm City of Sunderland
Mayors Carol Concert
Venue: Sunderland Minster, 309 High St W, Sunderland SR1 3ET, UK
Saturday 21 Dec 24 7:00 pm Joint Christmas Concert
SMVC + Music Makers
Venue: St Chads
Saturday 1 Mar 25 7:00 pm 140 Year Usworth Colliery Disaster Memorial
Provisional
Venue: Holy Trinity Church, Peareth Hall Road, High Usworth, Washington, NE37 1NR