Alex Patterson

Haul out the holly… 🎄🎺🎶❄️🎅

Come work with me!

It’s all a bit me, me, me 😂

The faces of those about to sing Haydn’s ‘Die Schöpfung‘ (The Creation) with the Choir of the Paderborn Municipal Music Society and the Northwest German Philharmonic.

Lovely to speak to Eamonn about this passion project

So proud of this. 1,400 children from across the Diocese of Salford giving the first performance of ‘Songs of the Earth’ by Hannah King as part of our new Salford Songbook initiative

Took my Ma to see the King. Nice time. Would recommend.

Huge congratulations to our team of 16 runners who ran a cumulative 100km last night around MediaCity.

We were blessed to have some enthusiastic supporters cheering us on as we went round and wish to thank them so much for their encouragement.

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Help raise £1500 to support our 'Song School' - a dedicated space for music education and rehearsal for our Cathedral Choirs Iʼm raising money to support our 'Song School' - a dedicated space for music education and rehearsal for our Cathedral Choirs. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

We're back. 🏃

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Feeling super proud of the Cathedral Choir family these past few weeks

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This was a lot of fun today!

Join the choirs of Salford Cathedral for this one-hour concert of choral music on the theme of pilgrimage and light with Zi Lan Liao playing the Guzheng (Chinese Zither).

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Come and spend a day singing Palestrina with me 🥳

Our Cathedral Choirs are now back to rehearsals and we are delighted to have created a new Junior Boys' Choir for boys aged 7-12 years old as part of our growing family of choirs here in Salford.

I cannot wait to share these fantastic songs with you all!

Independent review to ensure access to high quality arts and culture in every region Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy announces a new independent review of Arts Council England will launch in the new year

🚨 Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has announced an independent review of Arts Council England, led by Baroness Margaret Hodge.

We look forward to working with the Chair and her panel next year on the future of ACE 👇
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What a way to finish our SSP Carol Services - a packed out Sacred Heart RC Church with really top notch singing from the pupils of Sacred Heart, Colne, St John Southworth, Nelson, and FisherMore High School, Colne, with Mr Wynn-Evans.

Thank you to Fr Peter for hosting us!

Beautiful performances in St Alban’s, Blackburn, this evening with the school-children from St Anne’s and St Joseph’s, Accrington, St Antony’s, Blackburn, and St Peter’s, Blackburn.

Huge thank you to Fr Jude for hosting us and to other local priests for supporting this evening.

A real buzz in Burnley this evening for our Carol Service at St Mary’s. Well done to the school-children from Christ the King, St Augustine of Canterbury, St John the Baptist, and St Mary’s, for their beautiful singing with Mr Wynn-Evans.

Huge thank you to Fr David for hosting us once again.

Great performances in St Mary's, Brownedge, Bamber Bridge, this evening by Lostock Hall Children’s Choir and school-children from Our Lady and St Gerard’s, Lostock Hall and St Mary’s and St Benedict’s, Bamber Bridge.

Grateful thanks to Fr Mark and the team at St Mary's for hosting us.

We've still got goosebumps from the beautiful singing from our Cathedral Choir and school children from St Chad's, Cheetham Hill, and St Joseph the Worker, Irlam, at our Carol Service on Friday.

We're hugely grateful to the team at St Patrick's, Collyhurst, for hosting us.

Fantastic singing from school-children from Holy Family, Rochdale, Sacred Heart, Westhoughton, St Joseph’s, Halliwell and St Thomas More, Middleton, at our first SSP Carol Service of the season.

Huge thank you to Fr Mullins for such warm hospitality.

It begins tonight!

Shamelessly plugging my own setting of this from 2008 for Upper Voices published by @banksmusic.bsky.social

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A fun afternoon down at MediaCityUK recording BBC Radio 4 Extra Daily Service Carol Concert. You can hear excerpts from the recording on Daily Service at 9.45am on 23-27 December. BBC Radio Manchester will also broadcast an hour of the concert at 9am on 22 December and 1pm on Christmas Day.

Yes, to suspire is to utter a deep sigh. It’s all about breath, as are ‘inspire’ (to breathe life into an idea/person), ‘expire’ (breathe out), ‘perspire’ (to breathe through), ‘conspire’ (to breathe together), and ‘spirit’, because the ancients believed the spirit was breathed into the body.