Leah Stuttard, pilgrim and musician

Tag: Margery Kempe

  • Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound

    Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound

    Performing in Lizzie Gutteridge’s lovely series of early music events is always a pleasure. The church is a gorgeous venue and very reachable by train, being pretty close to Marks Tey station. Local singers will take part in this concert with me, singing carol refrains and plainchant and bringing me joy!

  • Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound

    Margery Kempe’s Journeys in Sound

    I take my concert exploring the sounds Margery Kempe might have heard and been familiar with to the town where the Mayor arrested her and accused her of wanting to steal wives away from husbands.

  • The Outspoken Pilgrim

    The Outspoken Pilgrim

    I have been invited to give a lecture recital at the Beverley Early Music Festival about Margery Kempe in this, her anniversary year. Weirdly, it will be in the same venue where I played my Wool Merchant and Harp programme 10 years ago, the marvellously quirky Beverley Guildhall. I will chat about Margery’s journeys, her…

  • Journeys in sound with Margery Kempe – first autobiography writer, pilgrim and visionary

    Journeys in sound with Margery Kempe – first autobiography writer, pilgrim and visionary

    Margery Kempe, born in 1373, was from King’s Lynn (then known as Bishop’s Lynn) in Norfolk. Daughter of an important merchant, five-time mayor of Lynn and Alderman of the prestigious Guild of the Holy Trinity, John Brunham, her book is the first autobiography in English, probably written by a scribe on her behalf (although it’s…