Well the Voices Now Festival is only a couple of years old and so it is all new for us to take the idea on tour. However, following our first ever festival at the Roundhouse in London in 2011 Valerie Whitworth, who had travelled over from Northern Ireland to take part, went home determined that Voices Now should come to her home.
Lots of things happened after that but the result was that we were able to take our new commission by Ēriks Ešenvalds over to be part of the City of Derry International Choral Festival as well as doing concerts and workshops in Omagh and Enniskillen.
For this adventure I also worked with the Holst Singers and The Roundhouse Choir – and although I have no direct association with them – I felt a huge sense of pride taking with me such amazing choirs. We also had the amazing Imogen Heap working with us improvising between Eriks’ songs. Here was the result in Derry:
We then went off to have a day in Enniskillen and a day in Omagh with the Holst Singers:
Clare Edwards 