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Byron Wood’s choir were chosen to perform at the Symphony Hall in Birmingham on Wednesday 3rd July after getting through to the finals at the Music For Youth (MFY) regional competition at Bannerdale Centre earlier this year.
Music For Youth (MFY) is a national charity that celebrates and supports the breadth of young people’s music-making across the UK. MFY provides performance platforms for over a million young musicians in some of the UK’s most prestigious venues. The children performed a traditional Qawali entitled “Allah Hoo” and “fix you” by Coldplay as well as beatboxing. A form of vocal percussion primarily involving the art of producing drum beats, rhythm, and musical sounds using one's mouth, lips, tongue, and voice by the very talented Y6 pupil Maros.
Mrs Stroud said,
“this is a great achievement for the children…”
Classic FM has included photographs of all the schools that took part in the national festival on their website. The choir is now waiting to hear who will go forward to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in November.