Responses to COVID-19 swept way our plans for 2020. Looking forward to a time when we shall be able to sing in public again, several possibilities are currently (July 2021) being considered.
We are eager to sing.
If you would like to suggest occasions or venues, please get in touch.
DARKNESS TO LIGHT
A programme of chant in the beautiful setting of the floodlit ruins of the medieval Cistercian abbey just outside Ripon, N Yorks.
16 October 2021
a Sunday afternoon in June 2020
at Brinkburn Priory
Longframlington, Northumberland NE65 8AR
in July 2020
a performance to mark the 800th anniversary of the reburial of St Thomas of Canterbury in Canterbury Cathedral
• Chant from The Petre Gradual (14th-century manuscript in Newcastle University Library) sung by the Benedict Biscop Gregorian Choir
• William Byrd: Mass for Three Voices sung by The Fitzsimons Singers
• Spoken words from Christopher Wardale
The Bowes Museum
Barnard Castle
Co Durham
as part of a North East Early Music Forum (NEEMF) Performing Day
Bede Museum at Jarrow Hall
+ The Friends of the World of Bede
BEDE TO BECKET - illustrated talk and performance of Chant from the time of Bede to the martyrdom of Becket
Brinkburn Priory
Longframlington, Northumberland NE65 8AR
12th-century music in a 12th-century church
FOUNTAINS BY FLOODLIGHT
Chant in the floodlit ruins of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
WASHINGTON OLD HALL
Visitors to this fine medieval Manor House heard rehearsal from 2pm and informal performance at 4pm
ST CUTHBERT'S CHURCH, ELSDON, NORTHUMBERLAND
Performance by participants at the end of a workshop day for all comers
USHAW COLLEGE, Durham
SING CHANT
plainsong workshop day
All voices, no experience necessary.
Singers of any faith or none welcome.
ST DOMINIC'S CHURCH, New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne
with the Choir of St Dominic's Priory
as part of the Late Shows – performances in places not usually open in the evenings
SEATON DELAVAL HALL
as part of the North East Early Music Forum (NEEMF) Day Out (12noon-5pm)
St Mary Magdalene's Church, Millfield, Sunderland
A Concert of Plainsong
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