Category Archives: Events

Dark Alchemy and Bat’s Ball present Sunday Service

Church of St John on the Wall, Broad Street, Bristol BS1 2EZ
Sunday 20th October  1st part 1.30pm  2nd part 2.45pm

This special event will be raising funds for the Churches Conservation Trust as part of its 50th anniversary celebration. The afternoon’s programme commences at 1.30pm with a talk about horseshoe bats followed by live music from Dark Alchemy performing early music songs. The second part will commence at 2.45pm with a talk about burial symbolism followed by Rosafresca performing songs and instrumentals from the court of Ferdinand and Isabella and Queen Elizabeth I. If you are member of the Music at No11 or Rosafresca mailing list, we are able to offer discounted tickets at £5 available in advance by booking on line.
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For more information contact steve@rosafresca.co.uk  Tel: 07789 773056

Elizabethan Lute Songs

Rosafresca with soprano Emily Nunns present an Elizabethan lute song recital

St Francis’ Church, North Street, Bedminster BS3 1JP
1.10pm Friday 1 November 2019
Admission Free

For more information contact steve@rosafresca.co.uk  M: 07789 773056

O Shining Moon!

Rosafresa presents a programme of Spanish songs from the court of Ferdinand and Isabella with Soprano, Hayley Guest

Lord Mayor’s Chapel, College Green, Bristol, BS1 5TB
1.15 pm Saturday 12 October 2019
Free entrance with retiring collection

For more information contact steve@rosafresca.co.uk  M: 07789 773056

 

 

Elizabethan Lute Songs

1.10pm-1.50pm Friday 19 October, St Francis’ Church, 289 North Street, Bedminster BS3 1JP

Rosafresca

Hayley Guest with Steve Walter will present a concert of Elizabethan lute songs.

Free admission – retiring collection

For more information visit www.musicnumber11.com
Tel 0117 9635817

Homage to Claude Debussy

7.30pm Saturday 6 October, Improv Theatre, 50 St Paul’s Road, Clifton

Mosaic Five presents songs and instrumentals of Spain and France featuring the music of Manuel de Falla, Debussy, Poulenc and Milhaud.  The programme will include Falla’s seven popular songs sung by soprano Hayley Guest and dances from his ballet The Three-cornered Hat.

Tickets £8 with concessions for students (Bristol University and UWE)
Unwaged £4    Tel 07936 617158

For more information visit www.musicnumber11.com
Tel 0117 9635817

Viva España!

1.15pm Saturday 28 April, Lord Mayor’s Chapel, College Green, Park Street, Bristol  BS1 5TB  (This is the rescheduled event of 3 March 2018 which was cancelled due to severe weather)

VivaEspanaPosterSpanish Renaissance music
with Jen Mackerras (recorder)
and Steve Walter (vihuela)

 

 

Admission free with retiring collection

The Recorder – An adventure in sound and time

Sat 7 April 2018, Silk Mill, Merchants Barton, Frome, BA11 1PT

Welcome to our celebration of the recorder with Pink Noise Recorder Quintet and Baroque and Beyond.  

Pink NoiseRECORDER: THE NEW FRONTIER – Workshop
10:30-12:00

Excited by modern recorder music, but unsure how to create all those challenging sound effects? Let Pink Noise help: In this workshop we will guide you through the basics of the more common extended techniques (including flutter-tonguing, sputato, and glissando), and get you working on a piece you can help us play in our lunchtime concert (if you want to).  Aimed at players of a reasonable standard, you should be able to read music and count to time.  Bring whatever sizes of recorder you have available.

Please complete and return the workshop registration form.  PDF – PNRQ Workshop form

Tickets available on the door or in advance from Eventbrite.  Meet Pink Noise on Facebook.

THOROUGHLY MODERN – Concert
13:15-14:15

Pink Noise give a whistlestop tour of some of the gems in the modern recorder repertoire.You will hear everything from jazz to African-inspired rhythms, high energy takes on modern pop music to sonorous renditions of Bruckner and Pärt. Participants in the morning workshop will be invited to perform alongside Pink Noise, and there will be an opportunity for kids (small and large!) to try out instruments and ask questions after the performance.

Coming along to the Pink Noise concert and workshop?
Select Combined Ticket on Eventbrite for a discount.

Hayley_6_BW_smallLET US DANCE, LET US SING
Baroque&Beyond with soprano,
Hayley Guest
19:30

Toe-tapping instrumental dance suites meet stunning arias for soprano voice and continuo. Ever the conjuror of birdsong and pastoral frolics, Baroque and Beyond showcase the possibilities of the recorder in chamber music of the eighteenth century: a fitting conclusion to a day-long celebration of this humble yet evocative instrument.

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Tickets available on the door or in advance from Eventbrite.
Meet Baroque&Beyond on Facebook.

Spanish music from the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella

7.30 pm Friday 1 December 2017
United Free Church, Fore Street, Totnes

Rosafresca with vocalist Hayley Guest, explore the golden age of art and culture in Spain through the Palace Songbook. Dating from about 1520, this magnificent collection of over 400 songs is one of the great legacies of Queen Isabella’s support of the arts and music. The collection features the villancico, or rustic dance-song that would have been commonplace at village festivities, though later developed and refined by court composers of the time. The songs express themes of interest to the Spanish people – from the political, religious and pastoral to the amorous and bawdy.

Adults £12 Students £5
For information contact Jill Tomalin. tomalinandj@hotmail.com.
Tel 01803 8494141

Mosaic Five

1200 noon, Saturday 14 October 2017
St Alban’s Church, Coldharbour Road, Bristol, BS6 7NU
Tickets £5.00 on the door

This event will feature the recently formed ensemble Mosaic Five, presenting an eclectic mix of world, early, contemporary and popular repertoire. Introducing the group we have…


Bennet Jones, clarinet

Isabel Jones – flute

Tim Senior – cello

Steve Walter – guitar

Ben Westley – violin

Mosaic Five will present the music of Manuel de Falla, Bartok and Maxwell Davies and Bristol composer Richard Leigh Harris.