ANCHOR
Campaign Live Now on Kickstarter: Help Bring Nature-Inspired Choral Music to Choirs Worldwide
I’m thrilled to announce that my Kickstarter Campaign is now officially live!
With your help I want to bring new series of climate-focused choral works like Anchor to life. By making a pledge via my Kickstarter Campaign, you’ll enable the production, recording, and global release of original choral music designed to reawaken a lost connection with nature, all while supporting vital river conservation.
10% of all funds raised go directly to Windrush Action Against Sewage Pollution (WASP) and the Evenlode Catchment Partnership (ECP) to help clean up our rivers.
Pledges include being able to pre-order the digital score or secure a limited-edition signed copy - featuring cover art by climate artist Rosannagh Scarlett Esson. Find out more about my Kickstarter Campaign below.
Find Out More About Anchor:
Anchor is a reflective and urgent work for SATB choir and piano that explores our deepening disconnect from the natural world. Amidst the "darkness" of a changing climate, the piece serves as both a sanctuary and a call to action. Read more about Anchor here.
Praise for Anchor:
“Lyrics implore you to reconnect with nature.” - Choir&Organ magazine
"A reflective and urgent work... taking listeners from the stillness of breath to the roar of the woods." - OX Magazine
“Its message isn’t about adding to our climate anxiety, but about finding our way back to the things that ground us.” - Round&About Magazine
“A new choral work serving as a requiem for our rivers and the plight of UK waterways... taking listeners from stillness to the roar of the woods.” - Cotswold Journal
About the Anchor Artwork
To bring the message of Anchor to life through a visual medium, I’ve also engaged renowned artist Rosannagh Scarlet Esson to create an original artwork to illustrate the front cover of the printed score. Through the trees was painted using only natural gathered materials including raw umber, burnt sienna, ochres, rainwater and wood ash.
Commenting on her involvement with Anchor, Rosannagh Scarlet Esson said:
“Jenny is a powerful and dedicated voice for nature, and I am honoured and thrilled to collaborate with her. Anchor’s poignant message is not just a call to come home, but a call to action. I wanted to create an image for it that captured both the serenity of nature as well as the ominous, destructive forces that move within and against it. I incorporated wood ash and smoke to materially represent the ‘burning’ forest, alongside rainwater, ochres and raw pigments to ground the work in a rich, earthy palette. Built up layer upon layer, the resulting work presents a dark forest scene that could be in equal parts calming and unsettling.”
