Presented by Canterbury Music Club
“Old Christmas Returned” - Music, Words and Song for Christmas
Performed in Elizabethan costume by Passamezzo.
A selection of carols, ballads, consort music, lute songs, dance melodies and readings – in a seasonal programme following the calendar from Advent to Candlemas and showing “how Christmas was celebrated, banned and restored in 17th Century England”. Includes music by Attey, Bull, Dowland, Gibbons, Locke & Purcell; and readings by Breton, Herrick, Shakespeare & Winstanley.
Eleanor Cramer – soprano, bass viol
Alison Kinder – viols, recorders
Tamsin Lewis – Renaissance violin, viols, alto
Richard Mackenzie / Robin Jeffrey – lute, guitar
Michael Palmer – actor, baritone