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News and Events 2025

Next Performance - Sat 13 September 2025

Past Performances 2025

RYV in St Mary's Wirksworth with friends 

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26th May event "This Town" ...

This is a quote from Carol Fieldhouse about the event:

"Huge thanks to all who contributed to this shortest of performances! To BM&W Brass band, to their leader Chorkiu and Billy Rowlatt for Billy's brass arrangement of This Town and (Video (video link below) Chorkiu's interpretation of it. To Raise Your Voices, Soul Voices and to the Nightingales of Waltham House and their supporters The performance was the first time we were all together! Thanks to Neil and Janet at St Mary's and to Sue at our wonderful Wirksworth Town Council. In due course, there will be a video by videographer Gavin Repton, in the meantime here is short clip made by Paul. Final thanks to Graham Sellors for his play Wusser for asking me to write This Town. And for my part, if the writing of this song was a book I'd dedicate it to the memory my friend and man of music, Julian Badcock

Our Gig in the Garden last weekend was at the wonderful old Barley Mow in Kirk Ireton. Such a super setting and lovely to be part of the their Open Gardens activities… with thanks to Rachel and her team at the pub, who kindly hosted us and generously served lovely refreshments too! xxx

Thank you for visiting the Raise Your Voices website. We are always honing the programme for the months ahead, posting items once they are confirmed,  but you can be sure that our sessions will be full of great music with the usual fun and camaraderie as we learn new songs and enjoy revisiting old favourites, and we shall continue to sing and fundraise for local charities and good causes whenever we can. 

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As well as the events planned we shall also carry on learning new songs with glorious harmonies and arrangements to enjoy and share at all our regular sessions throughout the year, and we may even go on the occasional outing, whether it be Ride Your Velocipedes, cycling and singing at stops along the way, (some of us don't cycle but just meet up for the singing bits and the at the pub afterwards!) or singing up at The Stardisc on a summers evening, competing with the birdsong and enjoying the rays of the setting sun... we might even go to a concert or a movie... let's wait and see....

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RYV performed at the Civic Service 

We  were delighted to have been invited to perform during the Civic Service for The Mayor Derbyshire Dales Cllr Peter Slack on 6th April. Lovely to have a compliment from the newly appointed High Sheriff of Derbyshire,  Sir Richard FitzHerbert Bt,  published on his diary page in Derbyshire Life,  April/ May 2025.

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And also a kind mention from the Lord-Lieutenant of Derbyshire, Mrs Elizabeth Fothergill CBE:

"Derbyshire Dales Civic Service was held in St Mary’s church Wirksworth to commend the work and commitment of Councillor Peter Slack. A beautiful service with marvellous musical reflections from "Raise your Voices” Choir. Delighted to be accompanied by Theresa Peltier DL and the new High Sheriff of Derbyshire, Sir Richard Fitzherbert."

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