Blackdowns Early Music Projects

We are absolutely thrilled and greatly honoured to be able to bring these two supremely accomplished musicians to Culmstock. Crispian Steele-Perkins has received widespread critical acclaim as a trumpet player with a purity of tone and artistic subtlety second to none. He collects and restores antique trumpets upon which he has performed and recorded with… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Crispian Steele-Perkins and David Hill

Post-Restoration music with a twist! From recorders and viols to shawms and bagpipes, three multi-instrumentalists turn the spotlight onto music from Purcell's time, encompassing sonatas and country dances. Jude Rees, David Jarratt-Knock and Mary Mohan are multi-instrumentalists with wide experience in a variety of genres including early music from medieval to baroque, folk, and classical.… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Enlightenment & Entertainment – CANCELLED WITH APOLOGIES DUE TO UNFORESEEN CIRCUMSTANCES

John Kenny returns to Culmstock this year with his one man show, called The Mouthpiece of the Gods, a highly dramatic story in which he explores the long history of lip reed instruments: shells, animal horns, bronze horns, straying into the realms of zoomorphism, cultural diasporas, and eventual reassimilation. This might sound a bit like… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – The Mouthpiece of the Gods

Courtly and Country Music from Purcell’s England Post-Restoration music with a twist! From recorders and viols to shawms and bagpipes,three multi-instrumentalists turn the spotlight onto music from Purcell’s time,encompassing sonatas and country dances. *********************************** Jude Rees, David Jarratt-Knock and Mary Mohan are multi-instrumentalists with wide experience in a variety of genres including early music from… Read More »Blackdowns Early Music Projects – Enlightenment & Entertainment