EVENTS DIARY 2010

Current bookings for 2010 which are open to the public

It's a pity you can't see all the ones which aren't open to the public too, but I don't publicise the education & private function events here.
It's also a pity you can't see the list of ones we didn't take, due to an inability to appear in two places at once!

More to come, meanwhile we have:

JANUARY

2nd: Kew Bridge Steam Museum - Major Horton & I appeared together, and I, at least, was very impressed by the whole place, and the welcome we received.
Same Saturday next year...

3rd: I piped for The Lions Part company both on the River Thames (yes, it was cold. Very. But great fun!) and outside Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, for the most superb Mumming play event. Also to be repeated next year. (But don't always trust "The Guardian" to advertise the right date - check here instead!)

APRIL

4th: Blakesley Hall, Yardley, Birmingham: Easter event. Tudor music from our Duo. Once again we return to this really friendly place, with a lovely atmosphere of really having been lived in.

MAY

3rd. : Harrow: Headstone Manor Medieval event - and very excellent it was too, despite the weather!
8/9 English Heritage: Audley End. (Cambs - Essex borders) Victorian event, with have-a-go activities of various sorts, including simple dances.

JUNE

12/13: St Albans, Herts. Magna Carta event as part of St Albans Festival.
Fantastic line-up of acts happening - come & see me in the museum, see Julie Fowlis in concert, attend folk sessions - it's all happening! See the website, find me, find the rest too.

26th: Chester, St John's Church, Medieval Minstrel's Court. A commemoration of the granting of the right to play music in the city, in thanks to the musicians who stormed a Welsh castle.... come & learn more.
Spot me on the poster!

JULY

3rd: Hailes Abbey; Glos. Medieval Pilgrimage day - and we got a double page picture spread in the Church Times too.

10 1710 day at Islip Jnr school to celebrate 300th Anniversary. Idyllic playing music under the trees in the Old Rectory orchard, then playing for dances in the barn in the evening. Smashing.

17 & 18th: Stretton Watermill, Cheshire. Another of their wonderfully friendly Tudor open days - tour of working mill with millers who convey their enthusiasm, plus musicians outside doing the same, and when possible getting you dancing too. And we were mostly lucky with the weather, and had a record ever turn-out to the Mill over the weekend.

AUGUST

7th: Duo, event for 1510; also appearing were Melford Hys Companie. This was properly a private event for the whole village... and it was a great atmosphere

14th: Abington Park Museum Northampton.
Victorian Family Fun Day, 11.am to 4.pm. A really nice museum in the beautiful Abington Park, which used to belong to member of Shakespeare's family... though that was before it opened as a museum...

19th: Ruthin Gaol, Denbighshire, Victorian event. I'm greatly looking forward to being back in this particular gaol! if you've never been it's worth a visit. If you have, you know it is.

24th: Hitchin Museum Victorian Day. I'm also looking forward to my return visit to this museum. One of those nice ones housed in rather attractive buildings.

SEPTEMBER

2nd: Evening: Brackley, Northants, Historical Society lecture.

5th: Epping Forest Queen Elizabeth Hunting Lodge: Yet again we return to this super spot, where the staff have always been so friendly, and the visitors likewise, for a day of Tudor music.

11th: Gillingham, Kent: Will Adams Festival. Repeat from our visit there last year, as both musicians and Storyteller. Celebrate the strange story of England's Tudor Samurai. No kidding - it's true, and the festival represents the cultures of both nations.

OCTOBER

2nd: Nuneaton Art Gallery & Museum, Victorian Day, with George Elliot "Mill on the Floss" theme. But you'll be allowed in even if you've not read it.
(I'd better see if I can dig out my old "O" level copy and get reading....)

16th: Waltham Abbey, King Harold Day. Both of us, being medieval. We've been asked here several times, and always been booked elsewhere, so this time they got in really early, and it sounds like an exciting event.

DECEMBER:

4th: Nuneaton Art Gallery & Museum: Seasonal music and song from our duo. No specific period this time, we're allowed to roam across the traditional material of all the periods we like.
This we intend to enjoy, and hope you will too!

8th: Evening lecture recital to Coghenhoe Heritage Society.

10th: Kettering Alfred East Art Gallery: Lunchtime Concert, with a difference. By public demand, we're going to include some seasonal items previously requested by members of the audience.
To give us time to choose from these, and prepare a balanced programme, you'll need to contact the Alfred East Art Gallery early in Autumn with your request.

12th: Hampstead, Keats House - yes, as in the poet John Keats, who had a very pleasing pad there!
17th: Keats House again. One of these two is to be Victorian, the other Tudor. Not that Mr Keats was Tudor, I do realise, but things were happening on the site at that time, and it makes a nice change, so you can come & see both!

Previous events have included events from great to small, for example:

National Trust, Castle Drogo; Heritage Lottery Fund event at Nottingham; London Maze History Fair at The Guildhall, City of London ;
Dover Castle (EH); Greenwich Foundation, Old Royal Naval College; Bede's World, Jarrow;
Dover Castle, Carlisle Castle, Richmond Castle, among others - English Heritage
Beamish Outdoor Museum, Co. Durham; Ayscoughee Hall, Spalding; Blackden Trust, Cheshire;
Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge in Epping Forest; Aston Hall, Birmingham;
Nuneaton Art Gallery & Museum; Salt Museum, Northwich; Stretton Watermill, Cheshire;
Amersham, Heritage Open Days; Chester Grosvenor Museum; Blakesley Hall, Birmingham;
Kettering Alfred East Art Gallery; The Tower of London;
AND, LAST but NOT LEAST!:
The Victoria & Albert Museum, and The British Museum.

This listing doesn't of course include the many bookings in schools, nor other events not open to the public.
If you'd like more information about any of the listed events, please e-mail me, or contact me if you'd like me/us to play at your event.

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