november, 2024
Event Details
Do Your Thing (DYT) Community Choir and Hand Made Signing Choir are delighted to be performing once again, in a special live show, to help continue to raise money for The Monastery Organ Appeal from 12pm – 3.15pm on Sunday 24th November, 2024.
Doors open at 12pm, and you are very warmly invited to join us as we open with a Classical Organ Recital by talented musician, and last organist at The Monastery – Stephen Mann.
Following this recital, the DYT Community Choir and Hand Made Signing Choir live show will perform from 12.30pm in the magnificent surroundings of The Great Nave – we are SO looking forward to this uplifting afternoon of inspirational performance.
Behold the DYT community choir in action below!
About DYT Community Choir
Do Your Thing (DYT) community choir has been singing for over a decade in Ashton and Stockport. They have performed at over 150 events from local fundraisers to theatre stages as well as singing live on TV and radio.
Their fans include comedian Jimmy Cricket, who said the choir “should be made available on prescription” and BBC Dementia Choir’s Mark De-Lisser who called them “the choir with heart”.
High praise
Gary Barlow praised Liz Taylor, the choir’s musical director, on BBC Radio Manchester for DYT’s fundraising during lockdown. Their music videos raised an incredible £10,000 for charities including NHS Associated Charities, The Christie and MIND and their “Evening of Hope for Ukraine” for the DEC Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal raised a further £3,000. Twelve months ago their concert, alongside Bolton’s Hand Made Signing Choir raised over £7,000 for the Monastery’s Organ Appeal.
DYT are delighted to be doing their thing once again for The Organ Appeal at The Monastery.
Liz explains “We are so delighted to be back performing in the magnificent setting of The Monastery. It was a real highlight for us singing in this breathtaking venue last year and we can’t wait to do our thing once again at one of our favourite places with the most incredible acoustics, helping raise money for the Monastery organ appeal again.”
About Hand Made Choir
Hand Made Signing Choir were formed in Feb 2018 and are a mixture of deaf and hearing people who all share the same passion for British Sign Language and music to make beautiful song accessible to deaf people.
The choir use this wonderful language to express the emotions of music and interpretation of song meaning through sign language, interpreting and performing a wide variety of music and songs including, pop, rock, ballads and classical.
They accommodate all tastes but most importantly are inclusive to deaf people, and meet twice a month at Bolton Deaf Society and welcome anyone who wants to experience this powerful language and share its beauty within the deaf community.
The choir are led by deaf musician, Dr Paul Whittaker, OBE.
Organ recital
The audience will also be in for a real treat hearing a classical organ recital in the nave by the very talented, Stephen Mann, the Monastery’s last organist, who will play before the concert begins. The recently installed Wadsworth organ console will be played electronically, whilst the remaining pipes are being restored and installed before it can be played traditionally once more.
Booking info
Adults – £12.50
Over 60’s – £10
Children over 5 – £5
Children under 5 – FREE
* Plus online booking fee
Please click here to book your tickets
All proceeds go towards the £20,000 the Monastery Trust still needs to fundraise, to install and configure over 1000 original, Victorian pipes into the organ loft. Thank you so much for your support.
Enquires to: Liz Taylor, Musical Director Do Your Thing Community Choirs – liz@dytchoir.co.uk
Directions to the Monastery here.