A Village Christmas

Imagine a Christmas long before the telly; long before the marketing of Christmas as a gigantic commercial ‘bean feast’.  In every farmstead, in every village, dwellers would have celebrated the festive season with music and song; with dancing and feasting.  Stories would have been told by candlelight by those gathered around the fire and a draught would have been drunk from the wassail bowl to toast the season.

The Village Quire invite you to an evening of mid-winter songs and stories with snippets from Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales, and Christmas entries from the delightful Diary of Parson James Woodforde, all stylishly read by actor Phil Smith.  These will be interspersed by festive West Gallery carols and mid-winter folk song from the Quire.  All served up with a generous dollop of Christmas spirit.   A musical time-machine guaranteed to take you back to Christmases of yore.

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