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Moving new requiem to honour the miners
SHIRLEY CLARK is moved by a dignified and defiant new work, written to commemorate the strike in 84-85
DIGNITY: A man after laying a wreath, at a memorial dedicated to miners who lost their lives while working in collieries, during the Miner's strike 40th anniversary rally in Dodworth, Barnsley, March 2, 2024.
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“HERE we go, here we go for the women of the working class!”
Chesterfield Parish Church — The Crooked Spire — rang out with this anthem from the ’84-85 Miners Strike on the evening of Saturday October 12.
The occasion was the inaugural performance of A Northern Requiem, written by local teacher and musician Jonathan Francis. Over 300 people were in the audience. Francis wrote it to commemorate the strike and the communities “who were left to fend for themselves when everything they knew had collapsed.”
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