King Charles coronation concert takes place from 8pm on Sunday. 7 May starting at 8pm on Sunday and hosted by Hugh Bonneville. The concert will feature Pete Tong, Olly Murs, pianist Lang Lang, Nicole Scherzinger, a Performance of Romeo and Julliet, featuring the Royal Ballet, Royal Shakespeare Company, and Royal Philharmonic orchestra. A pianist from the Amber Trust, Steve Winwood and the Virtual Commonwealth Choir made up of choirs from all over the Commonwealth, Tiwa Savage, Lionel Richie, (who was the first global ambassador of the Prince’s Trust, a charity founded by King Charles III), Prince William addresssed the crowd after which the National Anthem was played James Nesbit recited a poem, then Paloma Faith performed Lullaby, Stella McCartney spoke about Environmental issues, Alan Titchmarsh spoke.Katy Perry (who was appointed as an ambassador of the British Asian Trust, a charity founded by Charles, back in 2020) performed. Italian opera star Andrea Bocelli and Welsh singer Sir Bryn Terfel performed singer-songwriter Freya Ridings was accompanied by classical-soul composer Alexis Ffrench. An official coronation choir, made up of choir groups from across the UK, was sought six weeks ago to represent all four nations and including refugee choirs, NHS choirs, LGBTQ+ singing groups and deaf singing choirs to perform a specially composed song at the The Coronation Concert. The concert finale was by three of the original members of Take That : Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen,
Adele, Ed Sheeran , Harry Styles, Kylie Minogue, Elton John and the Spice Girls were also invited but declined to appear for various reasons (not enough time to rehearse, on tour in South America…etc) although it is possible they may record a performance via satellite.
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