Broadside Ballads and Folk Tunes
We invite you to transport yourself back to the alehouses of 17th century England. Taverns were raucous surroundings and overflowed with music, alcohol, gossip, fights, fumes, shouting, singing, laughing, dancing…. Our performance won’t have all of those! We’ll be performing a mixture of instrumental tunes and songs by Purcell and lots of his contemporaries including Matteis and Croft alongside famous ballads of the day!