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Harvey John Andrews (born 7 May 1943 in Stechford, Birmingham) is an English singer, songwriter, and poet.

Career[link]

From 1964, Andrews supported his nascent career as a singer/songwriter by working as a schoolteacher, before becoming a full-time professional musician in 1966.

Harvey Andrews has produced 17 successful albums singing his own songs, many of which have also been recorded by other artists.

His emotive Soldier (mp3 clip) transmits the same quiet desperation of a soldier about to die "in conflict" as Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est, though in a very different setting. In fact, the contrast of a battlefield to a commonplace urban setting and the proximity of children makes the situation even more poignant and the loss of a young life even more tragic.

Hey Sandy (mp3 clip) on the album Writer of Songs is another description of the senseless loss of a young life in conflict. It is based on the death of a female student, Sandra Scheuer, who was shot by the Ohio National Guard at the Kent State University in the U.S. anti Vietnam War demonstration of 1970, although, unlike the Sandy of Andrews' song, the real student was not directly involved in the demonstration. The album version of the song is an unusual, but powerful, arrangement, in which the first verse is sung to the accompaniment of a solo double bass, played by Danny Thompson. The recording was never issued in the USA until Kent State University's commemorative CD was released in 2005. It reached number 2 in the New Zealand chart in November 1972. In stark contrast, his Boothferry Bridge (mp3 clip) and Gift of a Brand New day (mp3 clip) reflect the contentment of the simple pleasures of everyday life.

He collaborated on a successful musical depicting life growing up in Birmingham in the forties and fifties. "Go Play Up Your Own End" has been well received across the Midlands, especially in its production in 2006 featuring Jasper Carrot in a major role, but has yet to make the transfer to London. The musical has played at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, the Birmingham Hippodrome and the Alexandra Theatre, thus setting a record of having been staged at every one of the second city’s major theatres.

In 2007 he published a musical memoir "Gold star to the Ozarks". He continues to write and perform.

He is father of the author Scott Andrews.

Appearances[link]

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He has appeared at many festivals including Tonder in Denmark, Lunenburg and Regina in Canada, and five Cambridge Folk Festivals in the U.K. Tours have taken him to Canada, Newfoundland, U.S.A, Germany, Cyprus, Belgium, Ireland, Switzerland, Belize, Malta, Holland, Sardinia, Gibraltar, Italy, Portugal, Denmark and Ascension Island.

Television appearances include The Old Grey Whistle Test, Rhythm on Two and over 50 other shows. He has made two television specials featuring his songs, The Camera and The Song, and The Same Old Smile. Two further specials were produced in Holland and Ireland. He wrote and sang the theme songs for the TV series Golden Pennies and The Haunted School and sang the theme song in the British movie Psychomania. He has hosted BBC Radio Two’s Folk on Two and a Radio Four Kaleidoscope special was devoted to his work.

The lyrics of one of his songs were used in course work for the national (England and Wales) GCSE English language examination. Another lyric was included in the Oxford University Book of English Traditional Verse.

Awards[link]

In 1996 he was voted International Artiste of the Year in the Canadian Porcupine Awards for Folk music.

Discography[link]

• "Harvey Andrews EP" (Transatlantic 1966)
• Faces And Places (Decca 1970)
• Writer Of Songs (Cube 1972)
  • among the tracks are: "Hey! Sandy" (also "Hey Sandy"), written about Sandra Scheuer^[1]
• Friends Of Mine (Cube 1973)
• Fantasies From A Corner Seat, w/ Graham Cooper (Transatlantic 1975)
• Someday (Transatlantic 1976)
• Margarita (Beeswing 1980)
• Brand New Day (Polydor 1980)
• Old Mother Earth (Beeswing 1986)
• PG (Beeswing 1988)
• 25 ... Years On The Road (Hypertension 1989)
• Spring Again (Hypertension/Ariola 1994)
• Snaps - The Family Album (Hypertension 1996)
• The Gift (Hypertension 2001)
• The Journey (Hypertension 2003)
• Somewhere In The Stars (Hypertension 2005)
• Resigning from Today. Transatlantic compilation (Sanctuary 2007)

References and notes[link]

General references[link]

• Discography: "Music". The Harvey Andrews Website. Haska Media. 20 November 2008. http://www.harveyandrews.com/music.htm. 

External links[link]

• Official Site
• Review of "Go Play..."

Gareth Malone
Gareth Malone at the Queen Elizabeth Hall
Born	1975 Bournemouth
Residence	London, England, UK
Education	Bournemouth School University of East Anglia Royal Academy of Music
Occupation	Choirmaster and television presenter
Known for	The Choir, The Big Performance
Awards	2007: BAFTA Television Award - Best Feature (The Choir) 2009: BAFTA Television Award - Best Feature (The Choir: Boys Don't Sing) 2009: Broadcast Award — Best Popular Factual Programme Winner (The Choir: Boys Don't Sing) 2010: 36th BPG Television and Radio Awards — Best TV Performer in a Non-acting Role & best Factual Entertainment show (The Choir)[1] 2010: Freedom of the City of London
Website
www.garethmalone.com

Gareth Malone (born Bournemouth, 1975^[2][3]) is a British choirmaster and broadcaster, self-described as an "animateur, presenter and populariser of choral singing". He is best known for his television appearances in programmes such as The Choir which focus on singing and introducing choral music to new participants.^[3]

Biography[link]

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Gareth Edmund Malone was educated at Bournemouth School, and sang with the Symphony Chorus of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra (BSO)^[4]. He studied drama at the University of East Anglia, Norwich where he was in the university choir and composed music for theatre productions. After graduating he did private tuition and then applied for a postgraduate vocal studies course at The Royal Academy of Music. He passed with distinction in 2005.

Working at the LSO he was awarded the position of Edward Heath Assistant Animateur in 2001. He entered television work when approached by 20/20, a production company which wanted to make a series about singing in schools. Without knowing who could front the programme they had researched the term "community choirmasters" and discovered Malone’s name. The Choir was very successful, winning two BAFTAs^[5][6] and a Broadcast award.^[7]

Until December 2009, Malone worked for the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's where he ran their youth choir and community choir.

On 31 December 2009, Malone conducted the first New Year's Eve Twitter Community Choir performance of Auld Lang Syne. He asked his followers on Twitter, and friends on Facebook, to join in with the event.

A later project was The Knight Crew, a youth opera based on a book written by Nicky Singer and performed at Glyndebourne. After choosing approximately 50 cast out of over 400 applicants between the ages of 14-20 through workshops and auditions, and months of rehearsals, The Knight Crew was performed at Glyndebourne between 3 and 6 March 2010. The project was filmed for a television series, Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne and aired on the BBC on 1 July 2010.

In May 2010 Malone was awarded the Freedom of the City of London by Nick Anstee, Lord Mayor of the City of London in recognition of his music education work in London.^[8]

His first book Music for the People: A Journey through the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Classical Music^[9] was published on 28 April 2011.^[10]

Television work[link]

Gareth Malone's television appearances began in 2007 with his reality television series The Choir, broadcast on BBC Two. The series focussed on teaching choral singing to people who have no experience of singing, with the first programme set in Northolt High School, a comprehensive school in the west London suburbs. Subsequent follow-ups continued the theme by taking choral music to challenging situations; Boys Don't Sing (2008) featured pupils at a boys' school who were reluctant to sing, and the third series, entitled Unsung Town, featured the formation of a community choir in South Oxhey, a suburban town where singing was not a current activity.

In 2011, Malone's show Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne won an International Emmy Award in the Best Arts Programme category.^[11][12]

In 2010 Malone presented a children's programme for CBBC, The Big Performance in which ten keen but extremely shy young singers took the opportunity to overcome their fears. They performed for a larger audience each week, taking it in turns to be the soloist and in the final week they performed for BBC Proms in the Park. A second series was broadcast in 2011 with the final week taking the form of a performance of a choral arrangement of the song "Keep Holding On" for the BBC charity telethon Children in Need 2011, where the ten singers led a live choir in the studio along with chidren's choirs nationwide linked by satellite.^[13]

For the BBC Two programme The Choir: Military Wives, first broadcast in November 2011, Malone went to Chivenor Barracks in Devon creating a choir from wives and partners of military personnel deployed to Afghanistan. The culmination of the programme was the opening performance for The Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 12 November 2011. The three-minute piece performed by the Military Wives Choir was the song Wherever You Are, a love poem compiled from letters written between the women and their absent husbands and partners and set to music by composer Paul Mealor.^[14] A campaign has been launched to promote sales of the CD single, with the aim of it becoming the 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart, which has been publicly supported by BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans.^[15] First day sales, which included all pre-orders, indicated that they were outselling their closest rivals, Little Mix, by a hundred singles to one, causing Ladbrokes to close betting for the Christmas number one, and Simon Cowell to admit defeat in the race. The pre-order sales caused the single to become one of the top 20 best-selling music products of all-time at Amazon.co.uk.

Television filmography[link]

Malone's television appearances include to date:^[16]

The Choir: Unsung Town series was also broadcast by NHK Educational TV and NHK BS1 (NHK衛星第1テレビジョン, NHK Ēsē Dai-ichi Terebijon^?) (NHK Broadcasting Satellite Television 1) in Japan in 2010.

Personal life[link]

Malone is married to Becky, an English teacher.^[24] They live in north-west London with their daughter, Esther,^[25] who was born on 22nd September 2010.^[26]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gareth Malone

• Official website
• Gareth Malone at the Internet Movie Database
• Gareth Malone on Twitter
• Youtube video of Gareth conducting the Military Wives choir performing a Paul Mealor composition