Vicky McClure’s Our Dementia Choir to perform at Splendour with Tom Grennan

Actor Vicky McClure warmed hearts and showed how music can heal the mind with Our Dementia Choir.

Vicky McClure and her dementia choir will perform at Splendour festival alongside Brit nominee Tom Grennan.

They have been announced as a surprise addition to the main stage bill for the July event at Wollaton Hall.

Nottingham actor Vicky presented the BBC One documentary Our Dementia Choir in 2019, exploring how music can help people living with the condition. The series went on to earn a Bafta TV nomination.

Now she will be bringing the Dementia Choir to perform in front of a crowd of thousands of people at Splendour on the Sunday (July 24) of the weekend event as part of a second BBC One series.

The programme makers will be at the festival filming for the final episode. Tom Grennan will perform with the members of the choir, who all have dementia.

In the first series, Vicky spoke of seeing dementia first-hand after caring for her grandmother Iris, who died in 2015.

It inspired her to form a choir of people living with dementia to see if music could make a measurable difference to their lives.

Splendour regularly attracts more than 25,000 people to Wollaton Hall.

She said: “I was absolutely delighted to be invited to appear at Splendour with Our Dementia Choir and having Tom Grennan join us on stage will be extra special.

“We should never underestimate the transformative and healing power of music. Music can uplift people living with dementia, change their mood and bring them joy.

“This is the reason why I started Our Dementia Choir and why it remains so close to my heart. I’m committed to ensuring music is used to benefit people with dementia in the future, and I know the famous Splendour audience will give us a warm welcome.”

Singer-songwriter Tom Grennan will perform on stage with the choir.

Taking time out from his UK arena tour, Grennan will appear on stage with Vicky and the choir for a special half hour set on the Sunday.

He is a British singer-songwriter whose first album, Lighting Matches, was one of the best-selling debut albums of 2018.

He broke into the UK top 10 with his single ‘Little Bit of Love’ which was nominated for best song at the 2022 Brit awards, where he was also nominated for Best Rock/ Alternative Act.

Tom, Vicky and the choir join the line up on the main stage for the festival’s second day, which includes Anne-Marie, The Human League, Melanie C, The Magic Numbers and Beka.

Tickets can be purchased from splendourfestival.com.

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