Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir Newsroom

About Us

Soul Sanctuary Gospel Choir was founded by Miko Giedroyc and Tracey Jane Campbell in 2005. We are a diverse collective drawn together by a love of gospel music and the joy of singing and playing, most often at monthly services held in two central London churches (before March 2020 and the COVID-19 lockdown measures).

In recent years, we have used our resources to support social action causes: working with the fairtrade charity, Traidcraft, the Jesuit Refugee Service and the communities affected by the Grenfell tragedy. We have supported the chaplaincy at Wandsworth Prison, singing there in 2018. In October 2019, we ran a series of gospel singing workshops and led the music in a North London church service marking Black History Month. The new Bishop of Dover, Rt Rev Rose Hudson, the first Black female bishop in the Church of England, was the guest preacher.

Soul Sanctuary endeavours to explore creative expressions of faith, and in our 2018 appearance at the Greenbelt festival, the communion took as its theme the arrival of commonwealth nationals on the Empire Windrush. It featured Averill Wauchope, a stowaway on the boat played by a choir member, who challenged a romanticised account of her experiences living and working in the UK. She described the “mountain of unconscious prejudice” Black people still encountered.

Soul Sanctuary has produced two CDs, ‘With All Your Soul’ and ‘You Are The Key’. We sing regularly on BBC Radio and have recently worked with Mica Paris on her new album ‘Gospel’.

We are determined to spread the good news of gospel music and we have a set of resources to enable groups of all kinds to explore gospel music and start their own choirs. Get in touch via our website to use our lyric sheets, part learning audio files and chord charts.

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