New Paths Music Festival: Songs & Sanctuary
Schedule
Thu Apr 16 2026 at 02:00 pm to 03:30 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Beverley Minster | Beverley, EN
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Songs & Sanctuary: Music from the Courts of Medieval France2pm - 3.30pm in Beverley Minster
Free Entry
Lonesome lovers. Beguiling songsters. Provocative nightingales. Friends at play. These are a few of the characters you will encounter in this programme of songs from the courts of 12th-century France. Performing in different spaces around Beverley Minster, the eyes of the medieval carved minstrels upon them, our singers and narrator unfold how medieval songs were the ultimate medium of sanctuary – a theme resonant with Beverley’s history and the Minster itself.
Singers from Siglo de Oro lead the audience on a journey around this spectacular building, just as the medieval trouvères themselves were itinerant. Then as now, they form joyful and creative connections among song-makers, performers and audiences, near and far.
The programme is connected to the UKRI-funded project, ‘Musical Lives: Towards an Historical Anthropology of French Song 1100-1300’, hosted at King’s College London. This project is led, and the research introduced today, by Beverley-born Professor Emma Dillon, Thurston Dart Professor of Music (Medieval Music and Cultures) at King’s.
Emma Dillon (speaker) | Hannah Ely (soprano) | Fiona Fraser (soprano) | Rebekah Nießer-Jones (mezzo soprano) | Jonathan Pratt (bass) | Patrick Allies (director)
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