The Mellstock Band
MELLSTOCK
BAND SHOWS
These popular shows are unique entertainments of music, song and spoken word,
using authentic instruments and period costume. The poetry and prose come from Hardy and
other writers, including the country poets John Clare and William Barnes, and they combine
with the music to illuminate its background and create the perfect atmosphere.
A New Show from The Mellstock Band:
The Village Philharmonic:
From the Tinker's Arms to the Concert Hall & back again with compositions and arrangements by Bach, Corelli, Grainger, Handel, Haydn, Holst, Mozart & Vaughan Williams.
The Mellstock Band's new show explores the ways classical composers have adapted traditional tunes and how rural tradition has re-shaped music from classical repertoire. A costume presentation of music, song and spoken word, with early and modern instruments.
Premieres of The Village Philharmonic will be at Huntingdon Hall, Worcester on 16th August and at St, Catherine’s Church, Towersey on 25th August. For details on these and other Mellstock tour dates, please see the Concert Dates page.
Human Shows:
A Tour of Hardy's Musical Worlds, from Mellstock Church
to Casterbridge Barracks,
from Mixen Lane to Vauxhall Gardens
Love and Liquor, Death and Dancing:
The Great Things of Life according
to Thomas Hardy
The Shepherd's Calendar:
Merrymaking and Courtship through the Country
Year
The Leaves of Life:
Carols and Christmas Music from English Tradition.
A new Christmas show combining west gallery and folk carols with festive music, poetry and stories.
Ghosts & Lovers:
Songs and Tales of the Erotic and the
Supernatural
Glad Tidings
A West Gallery Christmas
including some of our best-loved carols as they would have been heard in Thomas Hardy’s time.
With guest singers Vivien Ellis, Helen Chadwick, Jeremy Avis and Ian Giles
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