In 2016, a new collection of songs were written to accompany an exhibition that took place at the V&A’s Museum of Childhood. It explored the history of forced child migration, when poor or orphaned children from the UK were sent to Canada and Australia in a scheme that has since been called ‘shameful’ and ‘misguided’.
We now present a special performance of some of those songs to help highlight that story.
Contributing to this performance are John McCusker, Kris Drever, Chris While, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe, Boo Hewerdine, Michael McGoldrick, Andy Cutting, Belinda O’Hooley, Heidi Tidow and Barbara Dickson.
In 2016, a new collection of songs were written to accompany an exhibition that took place at the V&A’s Museum of Childhood. It explored the history of forced child migration, when poor or orphaned children from the UK were sent to Canada and Australia in a scheme that has since been called ‘shameful’ and ‘misguided’.
We now present a special performance of some of those songs to help highlight that story.
Contributing to this performance are John McCusker, Kris Drever, Chris While, Julie Matthews, Jez Lowe, Boo Hewerdine, Michael McGoldrick, Andy Cutting, Belinda O’Hooley, Heidi Tidow and Barbara Dickson.
