Concert: The Three Ann(e)s

Name: Concert: The Three Ann(e)s
Start: 2026-01-17T17:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-01-17T18:00:00+00:00
Location: Minster Yard North, HU17 0DN Beverley, United Kingdom

Schedule

Sat Jan 17 2026 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Minster Yard North, HU17 0DN Beverley, United Kingdom | Beverley, EN

THE THREE ANN(E)S
Saturday 17th January at 5pm
Tickets £8 - £10
Everyone’s heard of the Brontë sisters – they lived at Haworth, died young, had a drunken brother and wrote novels. Clever Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre and eccentric Emily wrote Wuthering Heights. And then there was the other one. Er - what’s her name? – ANNE.
Quiet Anne was overshadowed by her older sisters in her lifetime and has been overlooked by many readers since her death. But now, pianist Ann Airton and Brontë-buff Anne Powell set the record straight.
The Three Ann(e)s celebrates Anne Brontë’s life in her own words, and in piano music which the writer knew. In the space of an hour, the youngest Brontë emerges from comparative obscurity to be seen as a courageous woman, and as daring a writer as either of her better-known siblings.
Ann Airton won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music, gaining the LRAM (performer’s diploma) at the age of 17. A German Government Scholarship enabled her to study with Heinz Schröter at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik, Cologne. She then took a teaching diploma in the University of London. Specialising in the art of accompaniment, she has performed widely in the UK and in Denmark, Canada, Cyprus and New Zealand.
Yorkshire woman Anne Powell taught English and drama before retirement, directing plays and musicals, many of which were staged at The Stephen Joseph Theatre in the Round, Scarborough. A life-long lover of the Brontës, she was a Trustee of the Brontë Society (2019 – 2022) and winner of the 2020 King Lear Short Story Prize. Writing under the name of Anna Bransgrove, her novella, ‘Simple Dame Fairfax’ was published in 2015.