Midsummer Music for Medieval Coventry
Sunday 23rd June 2024, St Mary's Guildhall and Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
Featuring the Binchois Consort, His Majestys Sagbuts and Cornetts (plus special guests) and the Choir of Holy Trinity Church.
SAVE THE DATE for this full day of musical activities celebrating the important medieval feast of Midsummer's Eve. There will be family-friendly afternoon activities, including 'meet the instruments', in St Mary's Guildhall in the afternoon, a special Choral Evensong in Holy Trinity Church at 5pm, and an evening concert at St Mary's at 7pm.
All the events are free. Tickets for the evening concert will need to be reserved in advance from the beginning of May.
Choral Evensong with His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts
Sunday 8th October 2023, 5pm, Holy Trinity Church, Coventry
The first public event of the Aural Histories project takes place on Sunday 8th October 2023. Members of His Majesty's Sagbutts and Cornetts, one of our associated ensembles, will join the choir of Holy Trinity Church, Coventry, in a choral evensong celebrating the music of English renaissance composers William Byrd and Thomas Weelkes, both of whom died 400 years ago this year. Holy Trinity Church is an important research partner in our work and we will be performing music that might have been heard here in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries with some of the historical instruments that were common in town and cities around England at this time.
This is public act of worship and all are welcome. After the service, there will be an opportunity for members of the community in Coventry to hear more about our project in a short informal talk.
