The band has been put together by Jeff Chegwin and Nick Patrick. The members are Rabbi Danny Bergson from Manchester, Buddhist nun Anni Choying Drolma, Anglican vicar Tony Luke, the Sufi singer Ustad Ali Hafeez Khan, the professional Hindu singer Chiranjib Chakraborty, Father John Glynn of the Roman Catholic church and Ruth Gledhill.
A holding website has now been published for the band:
http://www.allfaiths.org.uk/
The first, teaser single Faith Unites Us All, written by Jeff Chegwin, Nick Patrick and Ronan Hardiman, is available on itunes.
Below are the intros and links to Ruth's Faith Factor diary for The Times.
Faith Factor Week Four: The Singing Buddhist Nun
In our new band All Faiths, created by Jeff Chegwin and Nick Patrick, the duo behind the soldiers, we are especially honoured to have the singing Tibetan nun Ani Choying Drolma as a member. Above is the interview I conducted with her recently. Her voice soars, pure and high as the breeze on peaks of the Himalayas themselves. Hear her on the first single from All Faiths, available for download on iTunes.
Earlier Faith Factor diaries in the series can be accessed here.
The Times of India recently ran a big feature on Ani. Sudeshna Sarkar wrote: Read more…
Faith Factor: Week Three
The big news this week: All Faiths has been signed by Warner!!
'If the tongue is the pen of the mind,
then music is the quill of the soul.'
So says Rabbi Danny Bergson, one of the seven members of All Faiths. He is Community Rabbi at Newton Mearns Hebrew congregation in Glasgow, spoke to me, above, when we met at The Angel recording studio in a former United Reformed church in Islington, north London to record our first 'teaser' single, Faith Unites Us All, which can be downloaded on itunes.Read more…
