Recent Performances:
Thursday 24th February 2022
Lantern Theatre 7.30 YES, YES UCS with Townsend Productions
Singing ‘Justice for Palestine’ with Tadhamon
29th November 2020 – International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Sunday 29th September 2019
PROTEST AT THE TORY PARTY CONFERENCE – Manchester
We joined our friends and fellow-activists from the Campaign Choirs Network to ‘unwelcome’ the Tory Party Conference
20th September 2019
CLIMATE STRIKE Sheffield City Hall
12th – 14th July 2019
Street Choirs Festival, Manchester
Street Choirs Festival Northern College of Music, Manchester
Friday 5th July 2019
Mesothelioma Day of Action, Sheffield
Saturday 15th June 2019
Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign Rally
2019 – May Day Rallies
Saturday 4th May – Sheffield’s first May Day rally for over 30 years
Monday 6th May – Chesterfield May Day Rally
2018 – our 30th Anniversary Year!
We add performances as we complete them as we want you to know about our most recent activities, so this list appears in reverse order, starting with December 2018 and working our way back to January 2018!
Saturday 1st December 2018
Members of the choir sang in Shirebrook, Derbyshire to support Unite’s campaign against Universal Credit
https://www.facebook.com/colin.hampton.5/videos/10157105183079905/
Saturday November 24th 2018 30th Anniversary Concert
30 years of Singing for a Fairer World – Celebratory Concert at The Hubs
featuring Sheffield Socialist Choir, The Fates and Sinsontes
We had a right good time singing songs old and new with friends old and new. As is traditional the singing carried on after the concert in the bar !
With ticket sales and donations from this event and the two Give it a Go Workshops held in November we raised £274.63 for the Choir Hardship Fund and £780.43 for the City of Sanctuary. The Choir Hardship Fund supports those who could not otherwise afford to attend rehearsals and events. City of Sanctuary supports Refugees and Asylum Seekers in Sheffield.
So all together we raised £1055.06 for good causes – thanks to all those who bought tickets and donated on the night!
Saturday 6th October 2018
Songs for ChilyPEP – a 30th Anniversary event
This concert featured Caritas Harmony Choir with Sheffield Socialist Choir in support.
It raised money for the local Children’s and Young. People’s Empowerment Project, ChilyPEP
Thursday 4 October and Thursday 11 October
Give it a Go Workshops at the Hub – 30th Anniversary Events
We ran two free open workshops to teach anyone attending some street songs related to current campaigns. We hoped to recruit new members and encourage people to attend our November concert. Donations collected on the evening were given to City of Sanctuary
Monday October 1 2018
We were interviewed on Radio Sheffield and sang a couple of songs for broadcast later
August 4th Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day
Some choir members sang in the Peace Gardens with Sheffield’s pop up Peace Choir to mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki Day.
Saturday July 14th
Choir Summer Party – a 30th Anniversary event
We held a lovely celebration and singsong for the Choir’s 30th Anniversary in a choir members garden. Rarely has the Internationale been performed so well from a trampoline.
Friday July 13th
Donald Trump Not Welcome Here
The choir provided songsheets and co-ordinated some singing at the rally against Donald Trump
Friday 6th July
Mesothelimia Society Memorial Event Sheffield Cathedrail
The choir sang in support of the Mesothelimia Society and it’s campaign for financial and other support for those who have contracted this disease particularly at their place of work.
Friday 29 June – 1 July
Street Choirs Festival , Brighton
Along with many other choirs, we busked around Brighton, performed in the Dome, learned and shared new songs and sang with hundreds of others in a massed choirs performance with an estimated 900 singers on the seafront!
Thursday 10 May
Support to the Millions Missing Campaign
We recorded I Stand with You to be circulated world wide on an international day of action in support of #MillionsMissing, the global campaign for ME health equality
Monday 7 May
Chesterfield May Day Rally
We sang the Internationale ,the Red Flag and the Anti Fracking song from the platform and performed a short set of campaign based songs in the Market Hall.
Saturday April 28th
Singing for Change Workshop at Weston Park Museum – a 30th anniversary event
We organised a workshop at Weston Park Museum to complement their Changing Lives exhibition . This exhibition celebrated Sheffield’s radical history and coincided with the 100th anniversary of universal suffrage being granted in 1918. Janet Wood, our Musical Director, taught a range of songs suitable for street singing to reinforce current local campaigns and to celebrate Sheffield’s radical history as illustrated in the exhibition. Some like Orgreave and Let’s Hear it for the trees were Janet’s own creations, some like Citizens of the World (Commoners Choir) came from other choirs.The workshop was attended by more than 60 people and was a great way to kick off our 30th Anniversary Year. We were able to support five asylum seekers to attend this event from the Choir’s Hardship Fund.
January – June
Choir memorabilia and banners were on display as part of the ChangingLives exhibition organised by Sheffield Museums to mark the 100th anniversary of universal suffrage being granted.
2017
December – May Day Film Released by Platform Films including music from various Sheffield Socialist Choir CDs. Have a look here!
Thursday 14th December
We held a seasonal social and signed cards and wrote letters to political prisoners from around the world as part of Amnesty International’s Write for Rights campaign.
Saturday 2nd December
We sang with Unite Community in Chesterfield to highlight the issues with the roll-out of Universal Credit.
Saturday 14th October
We supported the Sheffield Friends of the Earth Rally in Barkers Pool
To find out more: http://www.sheffieldfoe.co.uk/
Wednesday 18th October
The Appeal Launch of the Khuza’a Gaza Trauma Centre, 7 pm Sheffield Town Hall – First Floor
To find out more: http://www.sheffieldpsc.org.uk/
Sunday 1st October – Tory Party Conference demonstration
Some of our members joined the People’s Assembly Demonstration at the Tory Party Conference in Manchester. We sang with other choirs from the Campaign Choirs Network. See more here
Saturday 8th July – National Coal Mining Museum – Further Information here
Wednesday 14th June
DocFest Picnic, part of the Great Get-together in Memory of Jo Cox MP
Friday 23rd – Sunday 25th June
Street Choirs Festival 2017 Kendal.
Sheffield Socialist Choir took part in this annual festival which includes busking, massed sing and workshops in venues throughout the town.
Further information here
6th May
Sheffield Millennium Galleries – ProtestLab
1st May
Chesterfield TUC May Day Rally
8th March
Singing for Sheffield Palestine Women’s Scholarship Fund to celebrate International Women’s Day.
10th – 12th March
A Weekend of Political Song, hosted by Strawberry Thieves Choir in London
2016
Thursday 15th December – Singing in support of Health Poverty Action at Sheffield Station
June 24 – June 26 Street Choirs Festival, Leicester
Along with more than 30 other community and political choirs we were in Leicester for the annual Street Choirs Festival, busking around the city and performing in a concert.
More details on the Festival’s website: Street Choirs Festival 2016 Leicester
June 2nd Some members of the choir sang at the Poetry Army performance in The Crucible
May 2nd Chesterfield May Day Celebrations
May 1st Barnsley May Day Celebrations
April Singing on picket lines and demonstrations in support of Junior Doctors
More details and pictures to follow