Maddy Prior & The Carnival Band “Carols & Capers” 40th Anniversary & Farewell Tour. This is the last time they will undertake such an outing. https://carnivalband.com/. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtKVi3Ippu0
Maddy Prior (The Queen of Folk Music) joins up for the final time with the Carnival Band during the Festive Season for their unique celebratory show “Carols & Capers”. Together they mix renaissance, modern and ethnic instruments with a refreshing cavalier attitude and plenty of humour putting their inimitable stamps on a range of familiar and not-so-familiar festive fare. This will guarantee to be a Christmas Party to remember.
Andy Watts of The Carnival Band studied baroque bassoon and recorder at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. In the 1980s he was musical director for touring theatre company The Medieval Players and founded The Carnival Band. He has played with The Academy of Ancient Music, the English Concert, The London Classical Players, The English Baroque Soloists and was principal bassoon of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for many years. He also played for Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Concentus Musicus in Vienna. He teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and Birmingham Conservatoire.
They are playing:
Tuesday 17th December, Birmingham Town Hall, Victorian Square, Birmingham. B3 3DQ. Doors: 19:30. Tickets: £36.00-£28.00. Box Office: 0121 780 3333