Songs of Hope LONDON! with Penny Stone and Ryan O’Riordan

Songs of Hope
Saturday 22nd November 2025, 10-4pm New Unity, 277a Upper Street, N12TZ

Join experienced song-leaders Penny Stone and Ryan O’Riordan for day of singing to lift your spirits and fill you up with that thing we all find hard to find sometimes…. HOPE! Penny and Ryan write and teach songs for a better tomorrow, so please come expecting beautiful harmonies, uplifting themes and community connection.

We will sing together from 10am-4pm, with lunch and tea breaks. We will provide tea and coffee, including non-dairy milk, and biscuits. 

THERE WILL ALSO BE A HOOTENANY PLANNED ON FRIDAY 21ST WITH A BAND! DETAILS TBC.

Adults and kids are all welcome, but do be aware that the workshop is primarily aimed at adults. But if you know your youngster is comfortable in singing spaces, or you need to bring them so that you can participate, you’re all welcome and we’ll make the space as welcoming as I can for everyone.

TICKETS:

This workshop is charged on a pay-what-you-can scale, and if the lower end of this is still too much for you, please just drop us an email, no questions asked. If you are in a position to pay the standard or slightly higher ‘supporters’ rate, please do so to help me enable everyone who would like to access this workshop.

If the cost of a ticket is a barrier to you attending, please get in touch and we will do our best to get you in the room!
Email us at HopeMongersBand@gmail.com

Penny Stone:

Penny stone is a songleader, composer and hopemonger based in Edinburgh. She co-leads radical choir Protest in Harmony, as well as open community singing groups and singing for health groups. Penny believes that we can start to build the world we want to live in, cultivating community and connection through singing together, and that we can share comfort and joy together whilst also using these songs to help challenge the status quo.

Find more at Penny’s Website

Ryan O’Riordan:

Ryan leads many weekly choirs in London, including the UCL Jazz Choir, the Greenpeace Workplace Choir and the Islington Community Choir and many more! Ryan also leads weekend workshops and residentials and has developed a style which is high-energy and fun loving. His original songs are funky and soulful, and are incredibly joyous, rhythmically infectious and fun. Ryan’s written songs for many occasions, and his song Dirty Water has been used up and down the country to raise money for Surfers Against Sewage. Ryan really believes in people power; the only way we can achieve anything meaningful is connecting and collaborating. So in any project he runs, he always tries to make sure it’s contributing to lifting people up, making people happy and bringing people together.

Check out more at Ryan’s Website

The Venue
New Unity is an organisation that has fought for human rights since the 17th Century. Champions of anti-slavery, the inception if the suffragettes and LGBT rights. 
Based on Upper street, Islington the closest stations are Highbury & Islington, Angel and Essex Road. It is a step free venue but parking in the area is limited so we recommend getting public transport where possible. there is a drop curb near the shell garage on the corner.