Farm Street band to play for the Pope

Ooberfuse, a London-based electro-pop band, has been chosen to play in front of Pope Benedict XVI at World Youth Day in Madrid later this month.  Their front-woman, singer/songwriter Cherrie Anderson, has attended the First Sunday Mass at Farm Street Jesuit Church on several occasions and has taken part in the First Sunday day retreat for musicians in Euston.

The band, along with six other international artists from Nepal, Colombia, France, Italy and Spain, was selected from over 270 acts.  They will be performing their winning entry to the WYD11 global song contest Tuned Into Madrid.  Anderson's song Faith in You was singled out by a jury of five music and song-composition specialists and awarded a special category of 'distinction' for best celebrating 'the festive, creative and cultural dimension' of the Catholic faith through the privileged language of music.

Cherrie said : 'It was a great honour and privilege for our song Heart's Cry to have been selected by the English Bishops as the youth anthem of the papal visit to the UK last summer.  It is an even greater honour and privilege to now be asked to perform my song Faith in You on the same stage as the Pope this summer in Madrid.  It is an awesome thought to play before such a holy man and an estimated audience of over 2.5m young people.  It is an immense responsibility ...  I am rehearsing like mad in anticipation of August 18!'


 Ooberfuse

 World Youth Day 2011