The young singers of the Cornwall Music Education Hub’s County Choirs all came together to record a brand new Christmas song, the first single produced by the choirs, who will be donating all proceeds to Children’s Hospice South West’s Little Harbour.

The new festive tune, entitled ’Winter Weather Wondering’, was composed by local musician Matt Douglas especially for the Cornwall County Choirs - Cornwall County Youth Choir, Cornwall Girls Choir and Cornwall Boys Choir.  The singers are aged between nine and 18 and come from across the whole of Cornwall.

The Cornwall County Choirs, directed by Angela Renshaw and a team of local choral leaders and teachers, are part of the Cornwall Education Music Hub’s network of ensembles. The Music Hub is funded by the Arts Council to support the musical education and progression of children and young people in Cornwall. 

Angela Renshaw said: ’We have a great team of young singers now engaged with our choirs and we have recently opened up three new local groups in Helston, Launceston and St Dennis.  Over 150 young singers took part in the recording.

’We hope the people of Cornwall will support us by downloading it.

’Local schools will also have the opportunity to be involved, with related activities being sent out to every school in Cornwall to enable pupils to engage with the song and learn it for themselves, in preparation for Christmas .’

The song will be released on Qube Records on Friday, November 18.  

’Winter Weather Wondering’ will be available for download at a cost of 99p from all well-known digital music platforms including iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Deezer, PlayMusic, Napster and Shazam.