DUBAI: The Citizens of the World Refugee Choir performed at the UK’s Glastonbury Festival on Sunday.
The choir, which was founded in 2015 in response to the Syrian refugee crisis, is made up of 50 people.
Becky Dell, the musical director, told PA that the choir is a 50/50 split of refugees and non-refugees, and calls itself a “rainbow tribe (because) none of us look the same as each other – it’s amazing.”
She said the choir hopes to “elevate the narrative around refugees; too often the story is ‘poor refugees,’ it’s sending them far away. We wanted to show refugees in a different way. They are displaced human beings first and foremost.”
The choir opened the festival’s Avalon Stage on Sunday with a solo 40-minute set.