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To Shorten Winter's Sadness - Music, Words & Song For Christmas & Winter

16th and 17th Century Music, Words and Song for Christmas and Winter

The programme consists of ballads, lutesongs, carols, consort music, madrigals and readings and follows the religious calendar from Advent to the beginning of Lent.

It also describes many of the festive customs of the time, with feasts and revels through the cold of winter, and fairs upon the frozen river. .

Includes music by Byrd, Gibbons, Weelkes, Hume, Peerson and East and readings from Shakespeare, Stow, Herrick and Evelyn.

Performed in costume.

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Passamezzo image © To Shorten Winter's Sadness - Music, Words & Song For Christmas & Winter

St Pancras Old Church

Pancras Road
London
NW1 1UL

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Passamezzo image © To Shorten Winter's Sadness - Music, Words & Song For Christmas & Winter

St Pancras Old Church

Pancras Road
London
NW1 1UL

See all events at St Pancras Old Church