Saturday 25 June, 5pm at Royal Spa


¡Bailemos!

EVENT OVER. Get your dancing shoes on for a concert that will (literally) be electrifying as we celebrate the legacy of Belinda Sykes. Come and join the party!

Date & Time: Saturday 25 June, 5pm

Ticket price: £15; £7.50 12-25; under-12s free

Venue: Royal Spa


Get your dancing shoes on for a concert that will (literally) be electrifying as we celebrate the legacy of Belinda Sykes. Meet nuns, roses and boogieing knights and sway with us to songs of sinne and subversion that are sure to get you on your toes. Come and join the party!

Please note that Royal Spa is an outdoor venue. Please bring your own seating (folding chairs or picnic blankets) and you are welcome to bring a picnic.

Joglaresa

Jeremy Avis voice
Victoria Couper voice
Louise Anna Duggan percussion, harp, dulcimer, chorus
Richie Hart bass guitar, chorus
Frank Moon oud, chorus
Jordan Murray percussion, dulcimer, chorus
May Robertson fidel, chorus

BREMF Community Choir
Andrew Robinson director
Steve Hoar assistant director

Programme


Words: anonymous, C12th
Music: Walther von der Vogelweide d. 1230, with a nod to Iron Maiden
Ire si vis

Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, C14th Catalonia Cuncti simus concanentes

Cantiga de Santa Maria 137, C13th Spain Sempr’acha Santa Maria

Words: Wallada bint al-Mustakfi of Cordoba, C11th Spain
Music: Belinda Sykes
I am Made for Glory

C13th France Le Lai de la Pastourelle

Cantiga de Santa Maria 207, C13th Spain The Merciful Knight

Laudario di Cortona, C13th Tuscany Onne Omo

Traditional Judaeo-Spanish, Morocco La Novia

Traditional Arabic Tahmila bayyati

Philip the Chancellor d. 1236 Veritas

Aires Nunes c. 1230-1293, Spain, with a nod to Rod Templeton Bailemos

Cantiga de Santa Maria 158, C13th Spain Knight & Day

Traditional Judeo-Spanish, Turkey Esta Muntanya

Medieval Latin conductus, with a nod to Blondie Orientis partibus

Traditional Arabic/Judeo-Spanish, Morocco Bailava in Tetuan

C13th England Magno gaudens gaudio

Joe South, translated into Latin by Dr Elena Borelli Hush

C14th Tuscany Trotto

Guilliaume de Machaut, C14th France, with a nod to Donna Summer Douce dame jolie

Arrangements by Belinda Sykes, Louise Duggan (The Merciful Knight), Jordan Murray (Knight and Day)

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