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Hearts of Coal: A Celebration of Yorkshire Mining Communities | |||||||
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Sunday 11th May in the Large Civic Hall: 1 pm - 2.30 pm. A late addition to the Holmfirth Festival programme to contribute to the Yorkshire theme: Hearts of Coal: A Celebration of Yorkshire Mining Communities A words and music production with Barry Coope, Jim Boyes, Ray Hearne, Georgina Boyes and The Rolling Stock Company. Yorkshire Colliery, Ray Hearn's epic ballad about the history of local miners and their communities provides the narrative thread around which the words and music of Hearts of Coal grow. Hopeful and hilarious, tragic and triumphant, the songs, poetry and stories catch the spirit of a way of life that shaped Yorkshire for centuries and is now disappearing. Hearts of Coal was written by Georgina Boyes for performance by The Rolling Stock Company and soloists Barry Coope, Jim Boyes and Ray Hearne. Music arrangements were written by Barry Coope. The Rolling Stock Company is a 40-piece choir, mainly based in South Yorkshire and Derbyshire, founded by John Tams and Roy Bailey to encourage singing and performance grounded in local communities. John Tams was their first Music Director and, when acting commitments took him away from regular contact with the choir, Barry Coope took over from him. Rolling Stock have performed at a wide range of festivals and in concert and as well a writing their own material, have also had productions specially written for them by John Tams and Georgina Boyes. Holmfirth Festival: http://www.holmfirthfestival.com/
27th April 2003.
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