A selection of past performances
Most recent:
December 2011
Carol Service for the Worshipful Company of Scriveners
St Martin`s-Within-Ludgate, London
December 2011
Nine Lessons and Carols by Candlelight
Actors` Church, St Paul`s, Covent Garden
(in period costume)
October 2011
A celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
The Actors' Church, St Paul's, Covent Garden, London
September 2011
A celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible
St Nicholas Church, Rawreth, Essex
June 2011
Sumer is icumen in
St Andrew's Church, Mottingham, London, SE9
May 2011
Now is the month of Maying
All Saints' Church, Hartley, Kent
July 2010
Music for a Summer Afternoon
Madrigals and motets
Christ`s Chapel, Dulwich Village SE21 7AD.
May 2010
Music from the Tudors and Stuarts
Thaxted Church, Esse
The Shakespeare Connection
In April 2001 The Friends` Musick joined forces with the New Shakespeare Players to create
The Bard`s Bash, dedicated to celebrating Shakespeare`s birthday, at the Actors` Church, Covent Garden. They went on to develop further Bard`s Bash concerts in subsequent years:
William Shakespeare in Words and Music
Shakespeare on Love
Shakespeare`s Fools and Horses
Other Shakespeare performances:
Under the Greenwood Tree
(songs from Shakespeare`s plays with readings from the Bard`s works by actor Mike Shannon)
We Will All The Pleasures Prove
(exploring delights and pleasures from the time of Shakespeare with music from the Friends` Recorder Consort and readings from the Bard and his contemporaries by actor Charles Neville)
A Birthday Tribute to William Shakespeare in Words and Music
(With readings by actor Charles Neville and music from the Friends` Recorder Consort )
Costumed performances
Included among the Group’s numerous performances in period costume, the singers have also performed at festive events such as Spring Bank Holiday May Fayre, Tudor/Elizabethan Banquets and corporate events. A firm favourite is the ever-popular
Nine Lessons & Carols by Candlelight at the Actors’ Church, Covent Garden.
Non-costumed performances
Non-costumed appearances include Concert for Lent, Spring Concert, Celebration of St Cecilia - Patron Saint of Music, Under the Greenwood Tree and A Celebration of the 400th Anniversary of the King James Bible.
As performers of background music
The singers have provided unaccompanied background music for the production of a medieval morality play Everyman, performed in the Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, and Disillusion, the world premiere production of a play about Henry VIII by Tom Masters, presented by The Matchbox Theatre.
Thaxted Church, Essex
Photo: Michael Bailie
