The Mellstock Band: The Christmas Hearth

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The Mellstock Band invites you to their Christmas fireside with a seasonal mix of jovial songs, stirring dance music and haunting carols.

This is a costume show with early instruments, song and spoken word, celebrating all things comfortable, with hearty harmonies, soulful solos and exuberant instrumentals. The band brings to life the sound of a nineteenth-century village band with fiddle, clarinet, concertina and serpent.

The music is linked together by carefully selected readings of work by Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, John Clare and William Barnes, telling the story of Christmas celebrations in nineteenth-century England. Better than a bowl of hot punch!

Dave Townsend (director): concertina, voice
Caroline Butler: violin, voice
Tim Hill: clarinet, voice
Philip Humphries: serpent, voice

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