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Medieval music workshops
Sing in the Spring! Join me for a series of 3 online singing workshops this March. We’ll sing together from beautiful manuscripts that were produced from the 10th to the 16th centuries. There’ll be music for the springtime, for Lent and for Easter, all looking forward to the warm days to come. 17.00-18.00 2nd, 9th…
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Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound
Going to play in an absolutely stunning chapel with a fascinating history in the town of Newmarket. The medievalism of its adornments is a wonder to behold and it has a lovely acoustic as well. Very much looking forward to bringing Margery Kempe here, a place I walked through on my way to Norwich and…
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Chant! Singing for wellbeing
Spend an hour with me gently moving, connecting to your breath and learning some medieval songs that nuns or pilgrims sang. No need to read music, you just need a willingness to move and join in with your voice! You will learn a beautiful medieval round to the words “Benedicamus domino” or “Thanks be to God”. …
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Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound
I’ll be playing in an amazing medieval church in Withersfield as part of a quiet , contemplative day (my favourite kind!) Withersfield is now on a newly marked up pilgrimage route from London to Walsingham, so the theme of the day will of course be pilgrimage. You can read about that route which has been…
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Margery Kempe by candlelight
Excited to have been invited to play in this amazing and atmospheric medieval church, now looked after by Friends of Friendless Churches: In 2023 we celebrate 650 years since Margery Kempe was born in a town on the north coast of Norfolk, then known as Bishop’s Lynn. After some severe mental health challenges and an…
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Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound
I am so delighted to perform in this beautiful and welcoming church that I visited on my pilgrimage on foot from my home in London to Norwich and then on to Walsingham. I slept in their newly appointed pilgrim accommodation the night before I arrived in Walsingham after three weeks and over 400km of walking.…
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Sing with me! Workshop for participation in the concert on 24 June.
In this singing workshop, we will explore repertoire that isn’t all that well known – the medieval English carol. And like puppies, these carols weren’t just for Christmas! This type of song was unique to our isle and was the first polyphonic sacred music to have a text in the everyday language of the people…
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Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound
Come and listen to my concert of music that evokes Margery Kempe’s journeys across England and Europe all the way to Jerusalem, Gdansk and Santiago de Compostela. I will be joined by local singers. This is a church that I slept in when I went on pilgrimage to Norwich and Walsingham on foot in August…
