SWEMF

05 Oct 2024
Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton, Devon, EX5 5NU
Workshop for Voices & Instruments

28 Sep 2024
All Saints Church, Pembroke Rd, Clifton Bristol. BS8 3ED
The Voice of the Turtledove – A workshop for singers on settings of The Song of Songs

20 Jul 2024
Online – probably Zoom.
SWEMF AGM – online, probably using Zoom.

22 Jun 2024
St Mary’s Church, Yatton. BS49 4HH
‘Spanish and Latin American Renaissance Music’ – A Workshop for Voices and Instruments

25 May 2024
Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton, Devon, EX5 5NU
‘The Compendium of Revelation’ – The Musical Legacy of Girolamo Savoranola

13 Apr 2024
St Monica’s Chapel, Cote Lane, Bristol.
Medieval plainchant and polyphony for Eastertide

23 Mar 2024
Harwood Hall at Christchurch, Malvern Road, Cheltenham. GL50 2JH
Music for Renaissance Wind Band

02 Mar 2024
West Leigh Infant School, Westfield Drive, Backwell BS48 3NG
Choruses from Vivaldi’s Gloria

17 Feb 2024
Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton, Devon, EX5 5NU
Workshop for Recorders, Renaissance Wind Players and Strings

13 Jan 2024
The Freshford Village Memorial Hall, Freshford Lane, Freshford, BA2 7UR
‘A Musical Banquet ’ – music from Banchetto Musicale by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630).

04 Nov 2023
Tintinhull Village Hall, Vicarage St, Tintinhull, Yeovil BA22 8PY
CANCELLED – A Venetian Celebration – Vocal & Instrumental Polychoral Music for grand occasions.

21 Oct 2023
Leckhampton Village Hall, Cheltenham, GL53 0PS
‘Lob, Ehr und Dank’ – sacred music by Johann Hermann Schein (1586-1630)

30 Sep 2023
Thorverton Parish Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Thorverton, Devon, EX5 5NU
‘Missa Dominus Regnavit’ – polychoral music by Lambert de Sayve

23 Sep 2023
West Leigh Infant School, Westfield Drive, Backwell BS48 3NG

02 Sep 2023
St Mary’s church, 1 Church Rd, Yatton, Bristol BS49 4HH
‘A notorious swearer and blasphemer’ – the sad life and wonderful music of Thomas Weelkes (died 1623)

29 Jul 2023
St Mary’s Parish Hall, Magdalene Street, Glastonbury, BA6 9EJ
Cancelled – Sacred Music from Eighteenth-Century Rome

10 Jun 2023
WI Hall, 4 Station Road, Backwell BS48 3QW
Purcell Symphony Anthem “My Heart is Inditing”, for voices and instruments.

22 Apr 2023
St Mark’s Methodist Church, Cheltenham
Music for Renaissance Wind Band, directed by Tim Bayley of the York Waits.

04 Mar 2023
St Mary’s Church, Yatton BS49 4HH
‘Our Phoenix M[aster] William Byrd’ – A workshop for voices and instruments

08 Oct 2022
Nailsea Methodist Church
Chamber Music Playing Day

03 Sep 2022
Leckhampton Village Hall, Cheltenham
Workshop for Voices & Viols with Susanna Pell

23 Jul 2022
Turnberries Community Centre, Bath Road, Thornbury BS35 2BB
Workshop with Alison Kinder

18 Jun 2022
Thorverton Parish Church, nr Exeter, Devon
With Angus Smith of the Orlando Consort

21 May 2022
St Nicholas Church, Swindon Lane, Cheltenham
With Angus Smith of the Orlando Consort

06 May 2022-08 May 2022
All Saints, Pembroke Road, Bristol BS8 3ED
Bristol Early Music Festival – Sponsored by SWEMF

06 Nov 2021
Culmstock Village Hall, Devon
Baroque Orchestra with Michael Williamson and Jacqui Robertson-Wade

16 Oct 2021
St John’s Church Glastonbury, BA6 9DR
‘Exaudi nos’ – the masses and motets of Jacob Obrecht (1457/8 – 1505)

25 Sep 2021
Venue TBC
Baroque Playing Day with Dick Little and Debbie Nicholas

The Bristol Early Music Festival has been postponed until May 2022.  However, there will be a number of free online events this year, including talks and short performances.

26 Sep 2020
Venue TBC
Baroque Playing Day with Sylvia Davies and Dick Little

27 Jun 2020
Turnberries Community Centre, Thornbury
Tutor: David Allinson

09 May 2020
Culmstock village hall, Devon
Tutor: Michael Williamson

18 Apr 2020
St Mary’s Church Hall, Glastonbury
Workshop for Singers with Peter Syrus

21 Mar 2020
Digby Hall, Hound Street, Sherborne, Dorset
Directed by Frances Eustace

Further details and application form See reports from previous years’ workshops: 2019 workshop 2018 workshop 2017 workshop

This workshop day will look at a variety of Christmas music from Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset and Gloucestershire. Much of it will be drawn from manuscripts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries – the so-called West Gallery period. The music is characterised by its danceable rhythms and its gorgeous harmonies and fugued entries. The words…

05 Oct 2019
St Nicholas Church, Swindon Ln, Cheltenham
The Music of Michael Praetorius, with Gawain Glenton

28 Sep 2019
Cheddar First School, Hillfield, Cheddar
Baroque Playing Day with Sylvia Davies and Dick Little

28 Sep 2019
Chapel in the Garden, Bridport
Singing History with Vivien Ellis

20 Jul 2019
Backwell WI Hall, Backwell
Workshop for Voices, Strings and Recorders with Peter Leech

06 Jul 2019
Culmstock Village Hall, Cullompton
Workshop for Singers with Tomos Watkins

11 May 2019
The Parliament Room, Gloucester Cathedral
Workshop for Singers with David Allinson

23 Mar 2019
The Salt House, West Bay, Dorset DT6 4EN
Workshop for Voices and Instruments with Tim Brown

16 Mar 2019
The Parliament Room, Gloucester Cathedral GL1 2LX
Workshop for Renaissance Wind Instruments with Tim Bayley

24 Feb 2019
The Parliament Room, Gloucester Cathedral GL1 2LX
Workshop on Michael Praetorius with Gawain Glenton

26 Jan 2019
St Mary’s Church Hall, Glastonbury
Workshop on the music of Peter Philips with Peter Syrus