The Frolick To Bring Baroque To Saddleworth Festival
(image courtesy Emma Curtis)
Award-winning baroque group The Frolick will be treating Saddleworth to a taste of 18th Century London during the Festival of the Arts, which begins in just over a week.
They’ll be performing what they describe as songs of “love, recession, melancholy, drinking and riotous fun” at St Anne’s Church in Lydgate on Tuesday 7 June at 7:30pm.
Director Emma Curtis told Saddleworth News: “We are rather unconventional as an early music ensemble. Although strictly an original-instrument period performance group, we prefer to call ourselves a band.”
She explained in an e-mail: “The members of the band improvise from song sheets in the same way that today’s jazz musicians do, but in accordance with the historical 18th Century style. Each performance is different and fresh, and very exciting.”
You can get a taste of The Frolick in action by watching this video: The Country Girl’s Farewel @ Buckingham from Emma Curtis & The Frolick on Vimeo.
The band’s website is here, and they’ve got a Twitter account here.
Tickets for the show are priced at £8.50, with concessions £7.50. They can be bought online at this link.
The festival as a whole runs from Saturday 4 June to Sunday 12 June. Tickets for the various events, talks, concerts and shows are available not only online, but also by e-mail, over the phone and in person from the festival’s box office at Uppermill Civic Hall.
You can get full details of the festival programme and how to book online from its website by clicking here.
The telephone line for ticket enquiries is 0844 381 4338. The box office at the Civic Hall is open between 2pm and 4pm on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, from 6pm to 8pm on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and from 9am to 12 noon on Saturdays.
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Author: Jude Gidney - Editor
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