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!
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)