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Hoary Winter's Night

Bring some winter sun into your Christmas concert season with Joglaresa's feast of folk, traditional and medieval carols from Ireland, England, Italy, France and Spain.

Line-up includes Irish traditional harper Jean Kelly, Irish/Geordie singer Mick Sands and Clare Salaman - brilliant on medieval and Scandinavian bowed strings.

"One marked highlight of St. John’s Smith Square’s Christmas festivities was the group Joglaresa - it was packed with punters, for Belinda Sykes’s spirited medieval ensemble" The Independent





Ancient and spellbinding Christmas song ringing with echoes of winter pagan festivities. Re-workings of well-known carols such as The Coventry Carol plus many lesser-known songs such as The Falcon Carol, The Burning Babe and Lordings Listen to Our Lay; Wexford Carols and the Irish air and hornpipe Christmas Eve.

Get in the mood for all the impending festivities with these brilliant musicians, whose infectious enthusiasm and peerless skill in their craft will result in a concert from which you will leave wanting to dance and sing all the way home!

"carnival-like exuberance ... enjoyable and virtuosic" FROOTS Magazine