2003
 

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7 November

The Bay, Headingley, Leeds

Sonnet Lumière
With David Smith, guitar.
 

 
2004
 

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1 February

The Bay, Headingley, Leeds

Where the ‘Art is
 

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28 March

Weetwood, Leeds

Where the ‘Art is
 

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3 April

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

“My pretty dear Penny”: a life of four seasons (full version)
With Ad Hoc Baroque
For the Friends of the Leeds Art Collections, at the opening of the Maids and Mistresses exhibition, and in the presence of Lord Halifax
 

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1 May

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

“My pretty dear Penny”: a life of four seasons (short version)
In conjunction with the Maids and Mistresses exhibition
 

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4 July

Friends’ Meeting House, Rawdon, Leeds

The Glorious Fourth
With David Smith (guitar) and David Robertson
 

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15 July

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

Frances, “the Good Shepheardess” (full version)
In conjunction with the Maids and Mistresses exhibition
 

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24 July

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

Frances, “the Good Shepheardess” (short version)
With Eleanor Rastall
In conjunction with the Maids and Mistresses exhibition
 

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16 September

Leeds Metropolitan University

Hang About! The waiting experience
For a conference on the Why Are We Waiting? Project
 

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26 October

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

Life with Aunt Emily (full version)
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and Stephen Muir (tenor)
In conjunction with the Maids and Mistresses exhibition
 

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30 October

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

Life with Aunt Emily (short version)
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano)
In conjunction with the Maids and Mistresses exhibition
 

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11 November

Foresight Centre, Liverpool University

Hang About! The waiting experience

For the 17th UK Marketing Services Conference
 

2005
 

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8 May

Harewood House, Leeds

VE Day (two performances)
With David Robertson
 

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9 July

Nostell Priory

Noel Coward: P&O 1930 (full version)
With Philip Smith (baritone) and Graham Coatman (piano)
For the Friends of Nostell Priory
 

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28 and 29 August

Harewood House, Leeds

Lady Louisa Entertains (eight performances)
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and Graham Coatman (piano)
 

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16 September

Holy Angels, Hoar Cross, Staffordshire

Life with Aunt Emily (full version)
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and Stephen Muir (tenor)
 

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28 September

St Columba’s Church, Headingley, Leeds

One-Night Stanza
Poems for autumn, with items by local poets
 

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2 October

Manor House, Ilkley

The Tinder-Box
For the Ilkley Festival Fringe
With a specially-commissioned video installation by artist and set-designer Will Holt
 

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10 October

Bewdley Baptist Church

The Beautiful Place – Bewdley in Fashion and Flood
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano): included a commissioned arrangement of the Bewdley Carol by Joseph Atkins.
 

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25 and 26 November

Harewood House, Leeds

Lady Louisa Entertains (eight performances)
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano)
 

2006
 

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11 July

International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds

Gawain, the (Almost) Perfect Knight
With Jonathan Bynoe (minstrel)
 

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19 August

Ramada Jarvis Hotel, Wetherby

Poems of love, celebration and growing old disgracefully
For a special birthday
 

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26, 27 and 28 August

Harewood House, Leeds

Adelina Patti, Queen of Song (six performances)
With Katherine Williamson (soprano) and Graham Coatman (piano)
For the Portraiture Weekend
 

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9 September

Headingley Community Centre, Leeds

Headingley Wrap
For Celebrate Headingley, including work by local poets
 

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1 October

Ilkley Literature Festival Fringe

Gawain, the (Almost) Perfect Knight
With Alan Radford (minstrel)
 

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17 October

Hull

Noel Coward, P & O 1930 (short version)
With Philip Smith (baritone) and Graham Coatman (piano)
For Hull Literary and Philosophical Society
 

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9 December

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

A Victorian Christmas
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and Stephen Muir (tenor)
For the Leeds Art Collections Fund
 

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10 December

St Wilfrid’s Church, Harrogate

Turkeys and Trifles
Part of a concert by Vocalis, in aid of the Lamplighters
 

2007
 

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28 January

Weetwood, Leeds

Where the ‘Art is
 

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19 February

Yorkshire College of Speech and Drama, Headingley, Leeds

Home, Sweet Home
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and William Petter (tenor)
In aid of Wheatfields Hospice, Headingley, Leeds
 

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15 March

Harrogate (Harrogate Wives’ Fellowship)

Where the ‘Art is
 

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17 March

New Hall, Cambridge

Excelsior!
With Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and William Petter (tenor)
 

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6-9 April

Harewood House, Leeds

Mr Jackson’s Easter Mystery (twelve performances)
 

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29 July

Aboyne, Aberdeenshire

Noel Coward: P&O 1930 (short version)
With Tom Featherstone (tenor) and Graham Coatman (piano)
For the Aboyne and Deeside Festival
 

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26 and 27 August

Harewood House, Leeds

Wilberforce and White: a musical encounter (four performances)
John White’s musical concerts in Harewood House early in the 19th century included one attended by the great slavery-abolitionist William Wilberforce …
With Jane Troughton (soprano), James Dargan (baritone and violin) and Graham Coatman (piano)
 

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7 September

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama, Headingley, Leeds

Noel Coward: P&O 1930 (short version), in aid of the Headingley Development Trust.
With Tom Featherstone (tenor) and Graham Coatman (piano)
 

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21, 23, 25 and 28 October

Harewood House, Leeds

Story-telling sessions
 

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22 November

Nostell Priory

Peter Shaffer's Lettice and Lovage
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Friends of Nostell Priory
 

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25-26 November

Harewood House

Snapdragon: Mr Jackson’s Christmas Party (six performances)
 

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3 December

Harewood House

Snapdragon: Mr Jackson’s Christmas Party (three performances)
 

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5 December

Horsforth, Leeds

Turkeys and Trifles
 

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9 December

Harewood Village Hall

Turkeys and Trifles
With Arif Javid (actor/magician)
 

2008
 

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26 January

Titchwell, Norfolk

“Imagination all compact”: or, A Stage of Mind
A specially-commissioned exploration, in words and music, of the relationship between acting and reality. For a conference of psychiatrists
 

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9 March

Headingley, Leeds

Trio Lit opened the launch party for the Headingley Literature Festival
 

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15-16 March

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama

Guest appearances in the Theatre of the Dales staging of I Was a Stranger, Peter Spafford’s radio play about the life of Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia, who lived in Cyril Ransome’s house in Far Headingley and died there in 1879
 

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22 March

Headingley, Leeds

Poetry reading for a birthday party.
 

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23-24 March

Harewood House, Leeds

Jigs and Jellies: Mr Penry plans a party
Below-stairs family entertainment, with Eleanor Rastall (soprano)
 

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26 April

Harrogate

This is not your Life (but your sisters’ warped view of it …)
An unusual presentation of leaked material for a 60th birthday party!
 

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9 May

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama

Where the ‘Art is
A new version, with an open-mike session after the interval, in aid of Wheatfields Hospice
 

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11 July

St Giles’ Church, Cripplegate, London

Father and Son: The Miltons of Bread Street
A celebration of the relations between the poet John Milton and his composer father, both of whom are buried in the church.
With Concert Bites
 

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11-15 August

Harewood House, Leeds

Tales from Harewood: storytelling with guest appearance by Swordplay director Richard Brighton
 

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24 and 25 August

Harewood House, Leeds

Entertainment for the Work and Play exhibition. With the Leeds Waits
 

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12 September

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama

Just a Second! with an open-mike session
Launch of the local Celebrate Headingley festival
 

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13-14 September

Dagmar Wood, Grosvenor Road, Headingley, Leeds

Guest appearances in the Theatre of the Dales revival of I Was a Stranger by Peter Spafford
 

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10 October

Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall, Leeds University

You and the Night and the Music … and Poetry Too A ‘quirky blend’ of jazz songs and poetry to celebrate Light Night Leeds, with Louise Gibbs (vocals) and Jonathan Gee (piano) in a Late Night Concert for National Poetry Week
 

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20 October
 

Entertainment for a birthday party
 

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28 and 30 October

In the Gallery of Harewood House, Leeds

Junket and Gingerbread: Stories of life Below Stairs through the eyes of Elizabeth Peach, Head Kitchen Maid: at 12:00, 1:30 pm and 3:00 pm, with Jane Oakshott of Trio Literati
 

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1-3 December

Trio Lit are joined by Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and William Petter (tenor) in their successful seasonal entertainment Emily’s Christmas: a Victorian celebration on successive evenings in Manchester, Hull and Headingley (Leeds)
 

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20 December

Temple Newsam House, Leeds

Jane and Richard make their annual guest appearance with the Leeds Waits
 

2009
 

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15 March

Performance at the launching of the Headingley Literature Festival

(LitFest 2009)
 

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19 March

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama

Virtual Aires at the Headingley LitFest, to celebrate the Leeds-based poetry magazine Aireings and its transfer to the Internet. The first performance in a series on writers who lived in Headingley.
 

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25 March

Café Lento, North Lane, Headingley, Leeds

Richard’s performance of ‘Meeting Yoko Ono’ by John Jones, for the story-telling evening On the Edge at the Headingley LitFest.
 

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9 May

Entertainment for a birthday party.
 

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17 June

Yorkshire College of Music and Drama

The Music of Middle Earth: Trio Literati join The Leeds Waits in a performance of texts by J R R Tolkien and music for the world that he created. The second event in the series on Headingley writers.
 

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23 July

At the Aboyne and Deeside Festival

Following their blockbuster performance of P&O 1930 at the 2007 Festival, Trio Literati invite you to Come into the garden ... for a musical entertainment based on the forgotten genius of Sir Arthur Somervell, "the English Schumann" - composer, educator and thoroughly Victorian gentleman: with Bryan White (baritone) and Daniel Gordon (piano).
 

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25 August 2009

Cairn Hotel, Harrogate, 8 p.m.

A Stage of Mind for Growing Old Disgracefully
     Maggie is joined by Lyn Thornton and Jason Scott in a program of poems, sketches and jazz classics.
 

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Saturday 12 September 2009

for Celebrate Headingley

Cocktails and Coffee Spoons T.S. Eliot and others
7.30pm, Yorkshire College of Music and Drama, Headingley.
... and cats, too! Trio Literati continue their series “They lived in Headingley”.
 

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17 October 2009

Orpington

Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and William Petter (tenor) join Trio Literati in an afternoon of Victorian songs and readings.
 

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28 October 2009

at St Columba’s Church, Headingley, 8 pm

Seasonal poetry readings and music, with William Rastall
 

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29 and 30 October 2009

at Harewood House, Leeds

Maggie and Jane in Twilight Tales, a series of family stories from the Harewood garden.
 

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12 November 2009

at the Square Chapel, Halifax, 8 p.m.

You and the Night and the Music
Trio Literati again join the jazz singer Louise Gibbs and pianist Jonathan Gee in their blend of jazz songs and poetry about the night, darkness, and the arts.
 

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4 December 2009

Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire, 7.30pm.

Turkeys and Trifles, a new version of our ever-popular Christmas entertainment.
 

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17 December 2009

at Temple Newsam House

Emily’s Christmas, with Eleanor Rastall (soprano) and William Petter (tenor)
 

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19 December 2009

Temple Newsam House, near Leeds, 2.30 p.m.

Jane and Richard make their annual guest appearance in The Leeds Waits’ Christmas entertainment.
 

2010
 

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21 March

at the Headingley LitFest

Performance of the last section of Noel Coward’s P&O 1930 in a program of poetry readings.
 

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17 April

Dramatised biography for a 60th birthday party.
 

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9-15 August daily

at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

Five in a Bar: Jazz songs and Beat-era poetry at the Jazz Bar, Chambers Street, Edinburgh. With Louise Gibbs and Jonathan Gee. Sell-out status awarded.
 

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27 September

at the Hexham Abbey Festival

Five in a Bar: Jazz songs and Beat-era poetry at Hexham Abbey. With Louise Gibbs and Jonathan Gee.
 

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18 December

at Temple Newsam House

Jane and Richard’s annual appearance with the Leeds Waits in their Christmas presentation.
 

2011
 

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8 January

Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre (HEART)

Trio Lit’s program at the opening of HEART, Bennett Road, Leeds LS6 3HN, of local poetry, a poetry performance workshop and an open-mic session.
 

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25 March

at the HEART café, Headingley

Readings for the Headingley LitFest.
 

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28 April

Sowerby Bridge

Poems, readings and songs on Afternoon Tea for the Brontë Group of the WI.
 

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10 July

at the International Medieval Congress, Leeds University

The Music of Middle Earth, with the Leeds Waits.