"Beowulf: The Epic in Performance" | Benjamin Bagby, voice and medieval harp

Name: "Beowulf: The Epic in Performance" | Benjamin Bagby, voice and medieval harp
Start: 2025-02-06T19:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-02-06T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Blacksburg Presbyterian Church

Schedule

Thu Feb 06 2025 at 07:30 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Blacksburg Presbyterian Church | Blacksburg, VA

Hosted at Blacksburg Presbyterian Church, 701 Church Street SE, Blacksburg
Vocalist, harpist, and medievalist Benjamin Bagby delivers a gripping solo spoken performance of the famed poem Beowulf. Experience this epic tale in the most epic way — reverberating through the chapel of the Blacksburg Presbyterian Church.
While now familiar as a written work, Beowulf’s medieval audience would have known it through the performance of a scop, or bardic storyteller, as Bagby portrays here. Accompanying himself on the Anglo-Saxon harp, Bagby uses the entire range of his voice to deliver this gripping tale in Old English, as it could have been experienced more than 1,000 years ago.
Presented with modern English supertitles
$30 general admission
$10 students with ID and youth 18 and under
15%-25% subscription discounts available

**Please note, official tickets for Moss Arts Center performances are only available for purchase online at artscenter.vt.edu or through the center’s box office.