You'll Never Walk Alone, arr Martin Ellerby

"You'll Never Walk Alone", is a song from the 1945 Rogers and Hammerstein musical Carousel.

In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, stabs himself with a knife whilst trying to run away after attempting a robbery with his mate Jigger and dies in her arms.

The song is reprised as an epilogue in the final scene to encourage a graduation class of which Louise Bigelow (Billy and Julie's daughter) is a member as the Starkeeper is about to give them a graduation sermon. The now invisible Billy, who has been granted the chance to return to Earth for one day in order to redeem himself, watches the ceremony and at the end of the Starkeeper's homily is able to silently motivate Louise and Julie to join in with the song as the whole congregation unite in singing along with them urged on by the Starkeeper as he ascends to paradise.

The song is also sung at football matches around the world; this tradition developed at Liverpool FC after the chart-topping success of the 1963 single of the song by Liverpool group Gerry and the Pacemakers.

In 2016, over 50 years after "You'll Never Walk Alone" was first sung on the Kop at Anfield, the governing body of the sport FIFA called it "one of the game's most beloved anthems".

This arrangement features a Bb soloist with full Brass Band accompaniment but because everybody know the words please be ready for the full audience to be joining in from the very beginning!

A brilliant piece to play on lively occasions.