An album which tells the story of the rise and fall of coal mining is to be performed in full at Durham Cathedral, as one of the region’s most popular music festivals returns.
Artists Public Service Broadcasting are to perform their album Every Valley in a sell-out concert at the World Heritage Site on the opening night of Durham Brass Festival and 40 years on from the miners’ strikes that have grabbed the headlines in recent weeks.
This year’s event takes place from 5 to 13 July and, as ever, promises a week of spectacular performances, new commissions, free concerts, community activities, and a full programme of lively street bands.
Public Service Broadcasting will be joined by another band with a strong mining heritage.
The NASUWT Riverside Band, from County Durham former mining village Pelton Fell have appeared at previous Durham Brass Festivals, collaborating with Richard Hawley in 2022 having been part of the internationally renowned Miners’ Hymn performances of 2010 and 2014.
Every Valley was Public Service Broadcasting’s first Top 5 album in the UK and saw them joined by James Dean Bradfield, frontman of indie rock legends Manic Street Preachers.
Looking ahead to the performance at Brass, on Friday 5 July, founding group member J Willgoose Esq said: “We are hoping that playing with a brass band in somewhere as amazing as Durham Cathedral will be really powerful, it’ll give it a power behind it we’ve never had before and we can put it in front of an audience that it means something to.”
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