A MERSEYSIDE creative director is arranging a performance to honour Liverpool icons at this year’s Liverpool Pride event.

Singer and Sense of Sound creative director Jennifer John has been commissioned to run the new choir project working with six local choirs.

The choirs come from a wide range of diverse communities across the Liverpool City Region and will perform 22 songs on Liverpool Pride’s new family focused day ‘We Are Family’.

Michael Carey, from Liverpool Pride Festival, said: “Liverpool is a UNESCO City of Music and complementary to this our choral performance brings together diverse choirs to celebrate an eclectic mix of iconic Liverpool songs. 

“We invite everyone from across Merseyside to come along to St Georges Quarter and join in the fun singing along to your favourite tunes.”

The performance will take place on Sunday July 31 at St George’s Quarter.

The six choirs taking part will each perform a number of songs from iconic Liverpool bands and performers including The Beatles, The Christians, Dead or Alive, The Real Thing, Black, Mel C, Echo and the Bunnymen.

The event will close with a special tribute by all choirs along with singer Thomas Lang singing You’re My World by Cilla Black, which co-incidentally will be almost 1 year since her death on 1st August 2015.

Jennifer John is best known as a singer in her own right and also as a director of Sense of Sound, an award winning, Liverpool based music-company.

She added: “I am so excited to be an integral part of Liverpool Pride’s choral project that brings people together while promoting the ideals of respect, acceptance and accessibility is always high on my creative agenda.

“Singing has always been the tool I have been proud to advocate as an effective way of breaking down barriers and uniting people so to be able to do so for Liverpool Pride is a real honour.”

As always, the festival coincides with the anniversary of murdered gay teenager Michael Causer, who tragically lost his life on 2 August 2008.

The Liverpool Pride festival, which now attracts more than 25,000 people each year, was specifically created in his memory as a way to celebrate his life and to empower the LGBT communities.