The Frost and the Boughs

Saturday 16 December 2023

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Join us for an evening amongst the trees as the Howard Assembly Room is filled with glorious festive music performed by some of the UK’s foremost musicians, and BBC Folk Award Winner, singer Lisa Knapp.

Concert Master David le Page creates new folk-inspired arrangements of classic pieces from Vaughan Williams’ ‘Linden Lea’ to festive favourites such as ‘O Tannenbaum’.

The Howard Assembly Room’s mid-winter concert is always a festive favourite. Whether your preference is classical, folk, jazz or a combination of all three, the songs, melodies and stories of this intimate soiree will bring festive joy and a warm glow.

Expect a beautifully decorated space using materials as part of our Green Season.

Price

£14, 18 and under £5

Doors
5.45pm

Start time
6.30pm

Under 30s Members
£10

Programme

Corelli/Le Page ‘Pastorale’ from Christmas Concerto
Trad. ‘Apple Tree Wassail’
Trad. ‘Sans Day Carol’
Trad./Le Page – ‘Noel 1/Troika’
Trad. ‘The Snow it Melts’
Trad. ‘The First Noel’
Trad. ‘The Trees are all Bare’
Vivaldi/Le Page – ‘Winter’, 3rd movement (from The Four Seasons)

INTERVAL

Piazzolla/Le Page ‘L’invierno’
Trad. ‘Linden Lea’
Purcell ‘Now Winter Comes Slowly’
Trad. ‘Nowell Tydings Trew’
Trad. ‘Tannenbaum’
Trad. ‘A Day in the Life of a Tree’
Vivaldi/Le Page ‘Winter’, 2nd movement (from The Four Seasons)
Goss/Le Page ‘See Amid’
Trad. ‘Three Ships’

Performers

David Le Page Musical Director and violin
Lisa Knapp vocals
Clare O’Connell cello
Kai Chareunsy percussion
David Gordon piano
Claire Whitson double bass