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Past Performances

Although we're not primarily a performance-oriented choir, we do perform a few times a year as many of us enjoy this and find it improves our singing as well as spreading the word about Purple Cats. 

We're building an archive of performances we've given. Here you'll find links to pages listing the songs we sang at each of our performances, with recordings of our performances where available.  For choir members, these pages also link to materials used to help learn the songs.

Weston Park, Christmas 2025

• Amazed
• Hlonolofatsa
• Anchor
• Smile
• Lay My Heart
• Reconciliation
• Gaudeamus

Weston Park, Christmas 2024

• As Winter's Night
• Can you Hear the Far-off Singing?
• You and I
• Blue Moon
• Let the Beauty we Love
• Peace like a River
• Polly Bolton's Wassail Song  - "We wish you peace, we wish you joy, we hope no harm will come to your door"

Street Choirs, June 2024

Including busking, concert performance and massed sing.

• Sing John Ball
• Every Brick (you take from the wall)
• Come Away In
• Ubuntu
• Better Times
• Accentuate the Positive
• The Peace of Wild Things
• We Were Seeds
• Can't Eat Money
• Let's Sit at the Table
• One Song, One Dance, One World, One Chance
• Billy Bragg's Internationale
• 'L Hurriya Jaya

Weston Park, Christmas 2023

• Gaudeamus
• Thina Simunye
• Lifting as we Climb - SHORT version!
• Will You?
• We Were Seeds
• Ubuntu
• Be the Light
• Let Time Be Your Friend
• The Peace of the Earth

Small Park Big Run, June 2023

• You'll Never Walk Alone

Fire Songs, April 2023

Weston Park/St Mary's, Christmas 2019

• Potter's Diddle March
• Hope Not Hate
• Unclouded Day
• If Not Now
• Thuma Mina
• Let us Stand
• Rock the Boat
• I saw a Ship

Millions Missing (click for videos and images), May 2019

• Somebody for me
• Dream our Dream
• If Not Now
• We Shall Go Singing
• Peace Like a River
• Vela Sikabone
• With a Little Help From Our Friends

Sing Away the Blues, Sheffield Cathedral 2019 (click for videos and images [Members Only])

• Hlonolofatsa
• If Not Now
• Blessed are the Crack'd
• Oh the Comfort
• And Still We Rise
• Thina Simunye
• We Shall Overcome

Weston Park/St Mary's, Christmas 2018

• Thina Simunye
• Blessed are the Cracked
• Sanctuary
• If
• Open
• Peace in our Time
• Hlonolofatsa

Flashmob, June 2018  (click for videos and images)

• Dancing Queen
• Ain't No Sunshine

Weston Park/St Mary's, Christmas 2017

• Verbum caro factum est
• Thina Simunye
• My heart is ready
• All you need is love
• Finlandia (Song of Peace)
• Carry me home
• Light me a Candle
• Dream our dream
• The Potter's Diddle March

Cathedral/St Mary's, Christmas 2016

• If
• Wexford Carol
• Pentonville (While shepherds watched)
• May your cup always be full
• Honono

Weston Park, October 2016

• Hlonolofatsa
• Taking a Chance on Love
• Woke Up This Morning
• All I have to do is Dream
• Happy Birthday (Spooky Men style) leading into May Your Cup Always be Full)
• Star Wars Theme (round)

Millennium Galleries/St Mary's Summer Fete, July 2016

• Higher and Higher
• Something Inside So Strong
• All I have to do is Dream
• Knocking on Heaven’s Door
• River of Love
• African song (Moya Wani We Wa)

TedX Pitsmoor, 21 May 2016

• Goodnight Sweetheart
• Domine Da Pacem

Weston Park/St Mary's, Christmas 2015

• Honono
• Up above my head
• Cabin hill
• In green by day
• Jerusalem
• Lully
• Blessed are the crack'd
• May your cup always be full

Millennium Galleries/Cathedral forecourt/St Mary's Fete, June 2015

• Move When the Spirit Moves
• The Peace of Wild Things
• Walk this World with Music
• The Sweetest Kick
• Taking a Chance on Love
• May You See Diamonds
• We Shall Overcome

Christmas 2014 (click for videos)

• Shower the People
• I Just Can't Get EnoughFlashmob 2018 (click for video and images)
• It's My Party
• My Old Friend
• Gaudeamus
• Hay's Creek
• We Shall Overcome
• You May Stand Mute
• Sleep My Child

Tour de France, July 2014 (click for videos and images)

• Someday
• Prayer
• Shower the People
• To the Hills
• You May Stand Mute
• Ndandihleli

Women of Steel, November 2013 (click for images)

• Don’t Sit Under The Apple Tree
• Only Remembered
• Goodnight Sweetheart

Green Fair 2013

• Walk this World with Music
• Rock the Boat
• Happy Together/I Say a Little Prayer, as sung in March 2013 City Centre Flashmob
• You May Stand Mute
• Shen Xar Venaxi
• Shumayela