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The Carnival Band with Vivien Ellis
Heroines and Tricksters – Women in Balladry
Part of the Beverley Early Music Festival 2017
Add to my Calendar 28-05-2017 20:00 28-05-2017 22:00 36 The Carnival Band with Vivien Ellis Steve Banks tabor, percussion, violin, vocals. Jub Davis double bass, vocalsGiles Lewin violin, recorder, vocals. Steno Vitale cittern, vocalsAndy Watts curtal, recorder, bagpipes, vocalsPresented by Professor Christopher MarshHeroines and Tricksters – Women in Balladry The ever-entertaining Carnival Band mix dozens of styles of music together with instruments from across the world in a programme inspired by their current quest to rediscover and perform 100 broadside ballads – the pop music of the 17th century. Their subjects were love, politics, battles, crime, folk tales, and sensational accounts of monsters and disasters. In this concert the women take centre stage – female soldiers, cunning tricksters, noble heroines, and girls who know what they want and how to get it! Vivien Ellis and The Carnival Band bring these characters vividly to life with an array of instruments, full vocal harmony and an infectious sense of fun. St Mary's Church, Beverley DD/MM/YYYYDetails
St Mary's Church
North Bar Within
Beverley
North Humberside
HU17 8DL
England
Programme
Anonymous – A Programme of of Broadside Ballads
Performers
Ellis Vivien – voice
Professor Christopher Marsh – Presenter
The Carnival Band
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Programme Note
Steve Banks tabor, percussion, violin, vocals. Jub Davis double bass, vocals
Giles Lewin violin, recorder, vocals. Steno Vitale cittern, vocals
Andy Watts curtal, recorder, bagpipes, vocals
Presented by Professor Christopher Marsh
Heroines and Tricksters – Women in Balladry
The ever-entertaining Carnival Band mix dozens of styles of music together with instruments from across the world in a programme inspired by their current quest to rediscover and perform 100 broadside ballads – the pop music of the 17th century. Their subjects were love, politics, battles, crime, folk tales, and sensational accounts of monsters and disasters. In this concert the women take centre stage – female soldiers, cunning tricksters, noble heroines, and girls who know what they want and how to get it! Vivien Ellis and The Carnival Band bring these characters vividly to life with an array of instruments, full vocal harmony and an infectious sense of fun.
