The organisation “Friends of Flanders” has arranged a charity gala at Charing Cross Theatre, London, to raise money for veterans charities including The Royal British Legion, Combat Stress, Chelsea Pensioners, and Help for Heroes. Emma will sing ‘I vow to thee my country,’ ‘Jerusalem,’ and ‘Tell My Father’ and participate in a premiere of a new work by singer-songwriters Dan and Laura Curtis.

Sunday, 28th October, 15:00 and 19:00, Charing Cross Theatre, London

Tickets are available here.

On 27th October, Emma will sing during a ceremony at the American Cemetery in Belgium, “In Flanders Fields” to mark the one hundredth anniversary of American Operations in Belgium during the First World War. There are 368 burials at “In Flanders Fields” cemetery, and a wall commemorates the 43 missing.

Emma will sing with the SHAPE (Supreme HeadquartersAllied Powers Europe) Band. Her repertoire includes Jacobson and Emerson’s setting of John McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields,” arranged for Emma and the Orchestra of the Royal Belgian Air Forceby Deputy Conductor Dominique Lecomte.

The event is free and open to the public. For more information, please click here.

Saturday, October 27, 15:00, ABMC In Flanders Fields, Waregem, Belgium

On 21st October, Emma will give a concert in Zwanenburg, the Netherlands, together with pianist Han-Louis Meijer. She will present a programme of music from and about the First- and Second World Wars, including poetry, war letters, and stories from her work singing for remembrance and veterans.

Sunday 21st October, 14:00, De Olm, Zwanenburg
Tickets are available via zondagmiddagpodium@meerwaarde.nl

Emma recently visited the British War Cemetery in Prémont, France, to sing during a family ceremony for Lieutenant Colonel Charles Turner van Straubenzee (1876-1918), who died in the line of duty on 9^th October, 2018, just over a month before the end of the First World War. Lt. Col. Van Straubenzee fought with the Royal Canadian Dragoons. Members of his family from Canada, the US, and Britain organised and attended a ceremony at his grave.

Who are we now? His legacy… our very selves.
Hilary Walker

During the Eighty Years War, the city of Leiden was under siege from 1573 until 1574. Almosthalfthe town’s population died of starvation or disease. During the night of 2nd October, 1574, the enemy troops retreated. The next morning, the relieving rebels or ‘Sea Beggars’ brought herring and white bread to the townsfolk.

Each year, a festival is held in Leiden to celebrate the liberation of the city. This year, Emma will sing during the remembrance service in the Pieterskerk. She will perform the ‘Sanctus’ from Gounod’s “Messe solennelle de Sainte-Cécile” with the orchestra of the Dutch Royal Air Force (De Kapel van de Koninklijke Luchtmacht) and the Leidse Cantorij, with conductor Sergeant Major Remco van Viersen.

Wednesday, 3rd October, 10:00, Pieterskerk, Leiden, the Netherlands.

On Sunday, 30th September, Emma will sing as a guest soloist during a Royal British Legion concert at the Civic Hall in Nantwich, England. She will perform a range of songs focusing on the First World War, together with the Band and Drums of the Cheshire Constabulary, with conductor David Woollam, and the Jedburgh Pipes and Drums.

For more information and tickets, please follow this link.

Sunday 30th September, Civic Hall, Nantwich, UK