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We're in the centre of the city of Birmingham,

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and over the next two Sundays

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Songs Of Praise launches its very first gospel choir competition.

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We have six fabulous choirs and a packed house,

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who will be hearing the glorious sounds of gospel.

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Hello, I'm David Grant and I'm delighted to welcome you all

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to this magnificent town hall in the heart of Birmingham.

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These six amateur gospel choirs, who've made it through the preliminary rounds,

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will sing with all their heart and soul before next Sunday

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when one of them becomes the first ever Songs Of Praise gospel choir of the year.

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We have, from London, Faith Works.

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From Nottingham, Hope Community Gospel Choir.

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From Birmingham, the Birmingham Community Choir.

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From Preston, One Voice Community Choir.

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From Dagenham, Fountain Of Praise.

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And also from Birmingham, the Town Hall Gospel Choir.

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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In this first programme,

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each of our choirs will sing a familiar hymn or song

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in their own gospel style.

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Watching and listening carefully are our celebrity judges who are...

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singing star and songwriter from right here in Birmingham,

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the amazing Ruby Turner.

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The founder of the London Community Gospel Choir,

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it's the Reverend Bazil Meade.

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And next it's celebrity vocal coach, television presenter and all-round

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amazing woman - I can say that, I'm married to her - it's Carrie Grant!

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APPLAUSE

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It's time to start singing, and the first choir

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setting the standard is the Town Hall Gospel Choir from Birmingham.

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We're a community choir and that's how I run it.

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We are a gospel community choir, a community choir that sings gospel.

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Sometimes you come from work, you're tired, had a bad day

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or whatever, and once we start singing, it really does lift you.

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We've all got jobs, we all work really hard,

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it's difficult getting everybody together and to actually know

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that we've got through, everybody is just over the moon.

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# Bless, blessed assurance...#

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It's a song that lends itself to a nice swing, gospel swing.

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We're all going through life, you know,

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but we have an assurance that Jesus is mine.

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This gospel is real and we really do find comfort in the faith.

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# Bless, blessed assurance,

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# Jes, Jesus is mine

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# Oh, oh, what a foretaste of glory

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# Of glory divine!

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# Heir, heir of salvation

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# Purchase of God

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# Born of his spirit

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# And washed, washed in his blood

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# Perfect submission

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# All is at rest

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# I in my saviour

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# Am happy and blessed

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# I am watching and waiting

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# Waiting and waiting

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# Looking above

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# Filled with his goodness

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# Oh, Lord!

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# Washed in his blood

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# This, this is my story

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# This, this is my song

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# Praise, praising my saviour

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# All the day, all the day All the day long

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# This, this is my story

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# This, this is my song

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# Oh, I'll praise him I'll praise him

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# All

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# All the day

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# Long. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Town Hall Gospel Choir.

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So, Ruby, the first song by the first choir.

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Did they set the standard for you?

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They certainly did for the audience but how did you feel about that?

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Fantastic, absolutely fantastic. What a way to start.

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Congratulations. I thought you were vibrant, you looked great!

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Marvellous presentation, excellent, super.

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Bazil, did the performance move you?

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It came straight to me as a wonderful rendition of a beautiful hymn.

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Yes, I enjoyed it very much.

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Carrie, classic song, obviously sung by a lot of people.

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Did they hit the right note for you?

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I think they had real snap, I think they gave the song breath,

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they gave it space and all of that was really good.

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I've got one tiny word of advice, which is

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if I'd had my eyes closed, I felt the conviction.

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Watching you,

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it felt like the smiles only came during the applause at the end.

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I'd love to see a little bit more joy as you're performing.

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Thank you, judges. APPLAUSE

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I don't think we could have given any more than we gave.

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They just put it out there. It was beautiful, a lot of fun.

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Time now for our second choir, who are based in London.

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It's Faith Works.

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To join the choir, one must be able to sing, that is very important!

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And they must be able to have a relationship with God Almighty.

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We all come from different backgrounds,

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some of us, we don't have a family here.

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some of us, we don't have a family here.

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We're coming from another country, and when we come as one,

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united in the love of Jesus, it's like there's a spark.

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Singing the gospel is not just performing, it's praying.

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Basically, when I'm doing it, I'm praying to the Lord.

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My favourite song is Pass Me Not.

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You have to join in, whether it be clapping your hands or dancing.

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It's about the encouragement, it's about feeling that there is hope,

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even when it seems that there's no hope, there is still hope,

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and as long as there is God, there is hope.

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# Pass me not Pass me not, o gentle saviour

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# Hear my humble... Hear my humble cry

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# While on others thou art calling, calling

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# Do not pass me by

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# So please don't pass us

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# Do not pass me by

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# Pass me not

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Pass me not, o gentle saviour

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# Hear my humble... Hear my humble cry

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# While on others thou art calling, calling

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# Do not pass me by

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# Jesus Christ!

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# Do not pass me by Ooh, saviour!

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# Saviour, saviour

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# Hear my humble cry

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# While on others thou art calling, calling

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# Do not pass me by

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# Please, I beg you Jesus, don't pass us by

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# Do not pass me by

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# Yeah!

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# Jesus Christ, I beg you, Father

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# Holy Spirit, love of God

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# Do not, do not pass me by

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# We need you Father Can't you see that we need you?

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# Yes, holy Jesus

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# Do not, do not pass me by

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# While on others thou art calling, calling

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# Do not pass me by

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# Do not pass, do not pass Do not pass us by

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# Do not pass me by

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# Yeah! Jesus! #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Faith Works, everybody!

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So, Bazil, did their faith work for you?

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That was fabulous. That was wonderful for me.

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It's a difficult song to sing without a drummer

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and they did very well. They kept time, the choreography was on point.

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Gospel music intensely being presented to an audience

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that could not resist clapping and being part of it.

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That's what gospel is about.

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And, Ruby, you've sung all over the world but you started in the church.

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How did you rate that performance?

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That choir connected with us just now

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and that's what's so very important.

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Any performance you do, it's about connecting with the listener

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and that's the job. Job well done.

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Carrie.

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I think it was a simpler arrangement than our first choir,

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but it didn't suffer for that.

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Your soloist is amazing - wow, I'm not worthy, you were great!

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It was a little raggedy in places, choreographically,

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and a little raggedy for me, vocally,

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but overall, just the joy coming off you, that's what we're looking for.

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Just when you sit there and go, yes, goosebumps, it's great!

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Ladies and gentlemen, Faith Works!

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That was so good, it was amazing.

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I was so nervous,

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I just had to pretend that Jesus was sitting there.

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Our next choir from Nottingham, with their gospel take

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on a very familiar hymn, it's Hope Community Gospel Choir.

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We are mixed choir with lots of different ages.

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The one thing we have in common is that we all love singing

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and making music together.

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The community part is very important as it's all about anyone can come and sing, there are no auditions.

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# Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming... #

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There are many, many people out there just burning to sing,

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but they don't quite know that there is a gospel choir near to them.

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But you have to try it to understand it

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and to believe what it's going to do to your life.

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# Mine eyes have seen the glory

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# Of the coming of the Lord

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# He is trampling out the vintage

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# Where the grapes of wrath are stored

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# He hath loosed the fateful lightning

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# Of his terrible swift sword

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# His truth is marching on

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# In the beauty of the lilies

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# Christ was born across the sea

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# With a glory in his bosom

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# That transfigures you and me

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# As he died to make men holy

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# Let us die to make men free

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# While God is marching on

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# His truth is marching on

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# Glory, glory, hallelujah!

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# His truth is marching on

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# Our God is marching on

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# Our God

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# Is marching

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# On. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Hope Gospel Choir.

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Ruby.

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What's so important is for... To see a choir standing there,

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encouraging the nation to sing.

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The enthusiasm was there, they were smiling,

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they really wanted to be there and they are singing, it's great,

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absolutely great.

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APPLAUSE

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Bazil. I liked that arrangement very much.

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I was very entertained by the performance.

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The song, a beautiful song, again very well known,

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but it's about the individuals on stage coming together,

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working together as a team and presenting it.

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They certainly lifted my spirit and that is what gospel music is about.

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APPLAUSE

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Carrie. I think there are probably lots of people all across the UK

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right now thinking, "I'm going to join a gospel choir."

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I think that that was really inspiring.

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For me, the last 30 seconds were fantastic,

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the blend of it, the passion of it,

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the swells, you know, crescendo, diminuendo,

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all of that stuff was happening in the last 30 seconds.

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That's what you need to focus on, it was good.

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Hope Community Gospel Choir!

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THEY CHEER AND LAUGH

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Fantastic!

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They were impressed with the epic ending

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which is what we had been working really hard at.

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THEY CHEER

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We are already halfway through this first-ever

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Songs Of Praise Gospel Choir Competition in Birmingham Town Hall.

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Next is the turn of a gospel choir from Dagenham in Essex.

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It's Fountain Of Praise.

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We need a church to give thanks to God, to give worship to God.

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Gospel music is a channel through which we communicate

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the gospel, the good news was pronounced to

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millions around the world.

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# I will cling to the old rugged cross... #

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Rugged Cross, powerful hymn, isn't it?

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It's a song reflecting back on what God has done for you,

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and knowing where you are today because of what he has done

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so it's a testimony in itself.

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# On a hill

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# Far away

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# Stood a rugged

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# The old rugged

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# Cross

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# On a hill far away

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# Stood an old rugged cross

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# The emblem of suffering and shame

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# And I love that old cross

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# Where the dearest and best

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# For a world of lost sinners was slain

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# So I cherish the old rugged cross

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# Till my trophies at last I lay down

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# I will cling to the old rugged cross

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# And exchange it someday for a crown

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# So I cherish the old rugged cross

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# Till my trophies at last I lay down

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# I will cling to the old rugged cross

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# And exchange it someday for a crown

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# So I cherish the old rugged cross

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# Till my trophies at last I lay down

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# I will cling to the old rugged cross

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# And exchange it someday for a crown

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# And exchange it someday for a...

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# ..Crown. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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Fountain Of Praise, everybody.

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So, Carrie, Fountain Of Praise sing together in church every week,

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that's got to help in a situation like this, hasn't it?

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I think the more you sing, the better you get,

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that's just a fact, so definitely.

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For me I think you're the most sincere choir that we've seen so far

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and I love you for that. APPLAUSE

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There's just a reality about you that's very endearing

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and really touched my heart, really sincere.

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Ruby, this was a very, very different style

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to the previous choir. What did you think?

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I'm sat here and I started to write and I stopped.

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It took me back to days of my mum. My mum used to sing that at home

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and it warmed my heart. Thank you so much.

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Really wonderful.

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Bazil, this is a classic song, it's been sung by so many people,

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do you think Fountain Of Praise did it justice?

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It's a beautiful song

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and it's from a different era

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and this is where it shows the variety that we have

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in gospel presentation and I think they did very well.

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Tenors were drifting on the tuning edge on little bit for me,

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but overall performance I thought was very good.

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Fountain Of Praise.

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THEY CHEER

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Amazing.

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When they said that we were a sincere choir,

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that just touched me so much cos that's what we set out to do.

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Hoping to live up to the title of their hymn choice, Perfect Praise,

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it's One Voice Community Choir.

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There are all kinds of ages from all over Lancashire.

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Basically the aim of the choir is to bring joy to everyone.

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# Yeah! Yeah! #

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The word gospel means good news and I believe in good news.

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In an age where everything seems to be about the bad news of this world,

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it's something to penetrate the hearts and minds of people,

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so I think it is a fantastic thing and it's my faith.

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I'm a nurse and when things are frantic, things are awful,

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I can think of some of those sounds and some of those words

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while I'm at work trying to cope with difficult things,

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and help people cope

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and I think it's really given me a lot of strength.

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# How excellent! #

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For me, gospel music allows me to be me, to rejoice, to dance,

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to smile with people and, most of all, to share it with them.

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# Oh, Lord

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# How excellent

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# How excellent

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# How excellent

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# How excellent

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# Is

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# Thy name

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# There is none like you

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# None like you

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# Jesus, excellent

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# Is

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# Thy name

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# In all the Earth

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# Jesus, excellent

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# Is

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# Thy name

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# In all the Earth

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# Every knee shall bow In all the Earth

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# In all the Earth

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# And every tongue confess In all the Earth

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# That he is Lord

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# Jesus, excellent

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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# Is

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# Thy name. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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One Voice Community Gospel Choir.

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Bazil, Perfect Praise is a real test for a gospel choir.

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Did they pass the test?

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CHEERING

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THEY LAUGH

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There are a lot of people called Bazil in the audience! Exactly!

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I just loved it. I thought they were wonderful. How excellent!

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CHEERING

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I mean, they... It was so believable

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and I thought it was wonderful to see a choir

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presenting a song has been established for such a long time

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and singing it so spirit-filled and is certainly communicated with me.

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I loved that.

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APPLAUSE

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Carrie. I want to say so much to you guys.

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None of you look the same, you're all different ages,

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you're all completely different.

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You absolutely embody the word "community".

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You absolutely embody what a choir is about because choirs

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don't necessarily have to have all amazing singers individually,

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it's when you put the voices together that the magic happens

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and that is what we saw today.

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APPLAUSE

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Ruby, Perfect Praise. Was it perfect for you?

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Oh, goodness me, it was songs of praise, it really was.

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It really was.

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I mean, when they finished, I just said, "Amen!"

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CHEERING

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One Voice Community Choir!

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Excellent!

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Magnificent. Honestly, I couldn't have asked for more.

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I can't believe it. Can we go and do it again?

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THEY CHEER

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Finally a choir also from Birmingham.

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It's Birmingham Community Gospel Choir.

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# La... #

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The choir rehearse here at Aston Parish Church.

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The choir is a Christian-based community gospel choir,

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so Christians from

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different areas of the community can come in and join.

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different areas of the community can come in and join.

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Right, left, right, left...

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Maxine's a stern taskmaster,

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but that is what we need to achieve the sounds that we want.

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And stop. Swell!

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Some of the songs, even though they're very old, like a recipe,

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you can turn them around and make them your own.

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I think that's what Maxine's done.

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# Got a prayer... #

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We're finding that the audience responds, so there are many tears.

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We're finding that the audience responds, so there are many tears.

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We don't want to make them cry, but they do cry.

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It's because they're touched by our passion perhaps

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and also the presence of the Lord.

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# Guide me, O thou great Jehovah

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# Pilgrim through this barren land

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# I am weak but thou art mighty

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# Hold me with thy powerful hand

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# Bread of heaven Bread of heaven, bread of heaven

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# Feed me till I want no more

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# Open now the crystal fountain

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# Whence the healing stream doth flow Whence the healing stream doth flow

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# Let the fire and cloudy pillar

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# Lead me all my journey through Lead me all my journey through

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# Strong deliverer Strong deliverer, strong deliverer

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# Be thou still my strength and shield

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AUDIENCE CLAPS ALONG

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# Be thou still my strength and shield

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# When I tread the verge of Jordan

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# Bid my anxious fears subside

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# Bear me through the swelling current

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# Land me safe on Canaan's side

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# Songs of praises Songs, songs, songs, songs

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# I will ever give to thee

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# I will ever give to thee. #

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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

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INAUDIBLE

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Birmingham Community Gospel Choir.

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CHEERING

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Carrie, that was a cappella, completely unaccompanied.

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A brave choice, but was it the right choice?

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CHEERING

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Wow!

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It absolutely was the right choice.

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With a cappella singing, the two things you've really got to watch

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are that we don't lose, we don't drop in tone,

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and the timing.

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Tuning, you were on point, you nailed it.

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CHEERING

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Timing...

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I do want you to have a little think about your timing.

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The timing actually improved when the audience started clapping

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because you kept in time with them.

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LAUGHTER

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Ruby, you've been on stage countless times.

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In a situation like this, with cameras and the audience

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and people watching at home, with pressure,

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how do you think they performed? They performed great.

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The connection they made with the audience took us in with them.

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Suddenly we wanted to be there.

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That is what making that connection's all about.

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It's what choir singing is all about,

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people joining in and just enjoying it, and they were great.

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Bazil, they say as a choir, they want to move people's hearts.

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Did they touch your heart?

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They certainly did and I think it's a very brave thing,

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taking a song like this

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and presenting it without any accompaniment

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because not many choirs like to do that

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because you're totally exposed.

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Again, I looked at all the singers, they were engaging with

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the audience and certainly engaging with the conductor - so important.

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APPLAUSE

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Birmingham Community Gospel Choir!

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We were somebody else up there, weren't we?

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Who were we? We were blessed!

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We didn't drop the note, we kept it there, we kept it at the level.

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THEY CHEER

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It's been fantastic watching and listening to these six choirs.

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Let's show them some love and appreciation.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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Now, no choirs are going home at this point, I know, but, judges,

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have you been moved particularly

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by any choir from a worship perspective?

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Have any stood out for you? Ruby?

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They were all so, so wonderful

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and I feel very blessed to be a part of this.

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The song Do Not Pass Me By

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is an old gospel song that I've loved

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and the choir delivered it so wonderfully today.

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# Hear my humble cry... #

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Bazil?

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The choir that sang How Excellent, which I believe is One Voice,

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they certainly moved me.

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I wanted to join them and worship through that song.

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# How excellent... #

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And, Carrie, what about you?

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There is one choir that has really stood out for me

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technically today and that has to be the Town Hall Gospel Choir.

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# This

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# This is my story... #

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Wow, so three judges, three different choirs.

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And there's plenty to think about for next week.

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Do join us next week because all six choirs get to sing

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a great gospel song, but this time

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with full accompaniment, and one of them will become

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the first Songs Of Praise Gospel Choir of the Year.

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Bye for now.

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APPLAUSE AND CHEERING

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