The Battle between Shrovetide & Lent: A seasonal concert of 16th & 17thC music, words & song

Words, music and song for Shrovetide (Shrove Tuesday and the preceding days) and Lent from 16th and 17th century Britain.
Feasting, fasting, revels, sports, pancakes, cock throwing, and football.
Ballads, dance melodies, masque songs, theatre music and readings.
Includes music by Campion, Ferrabosco, Gibbons, Peerson & Purcell; and words by Breton, Dekker, Dunbar, Hawkins, Shakespeare & Taylor.

Taylor Aucoin: narrator;
Duncan Law: Shrovetide;
Michael Palmer: Lent;
Eleanor Cramer: sopran

7.30pm
Tickets £15 (£10 concessions) from www.ticketsource.co.uk/passamezzo or at the door

St John’s Wood Church, Lord’s Roundabout, London NW8 7NE

Sat 10 Feb 2018

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