Just four weeks to go now until the whole team is in Exeter Cathedral and tickets are going fast… get them while you can from TicketSource  When and where else could you see and hear  this incredible team of performers in the South West??Musical Director  JanJoost van Elburg Soloists  Amy Haworth, Charlotte Ashley, Caroline Trevor, Ingeborg Bröcheler, Mark Dobell, Mark Bonney, Thomas Flint, Simon […]

So, we are off again, as if Grand Baroque I, II and III in 2013, 2015 and 2017 weren’t enough!  Here comes Grand Baroque IV, another foray into C17 extravagance on a scale rarely performed today. There is one important difference, however! Instead of dragging you away from the beach or BBQ over a sunny […]

Gawain Glenton’s debut as guest MD with Blackdowns Early Music Projects started the Spring Festival with music of the Habsburg courts of Vienna.  Agreed by all involved, performers and audience alike, to be a hugely enjoyable programme, greatly enhanced by the installation of dragonflies in the Church! Huge thanks to Gawain, to Emily White and […]

Tickets now on sale for the Spring Festival, two choral concerts and two recitals between May 19 and June 9 Felix Austriae: Vienna and the Sound of Habsburg Power ~ MD Gawain Glenton  Sunday May 19th at 6.30pm ~ Church of St John the Baptist, Wellington TA21 8QY Tickets £15/£8/under 12 free The Lute Family: A […]

SOUTH WEST VIOL FEST II : Residential Course for Viols in Culmstock on the Somerset/Devon borders May 23-26 2019     Tutors: Caroline Ritchie and Henrik Persson Following the first course in May 2018 when Viols and Voices shared spaces at Cadbury House and elsewhere in Culmstock, Devon,  this second residential course in 2019 will be […]

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