An overview of events from 2024.
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December 2024 –
Provide period background entertainment for private supper club at The Crooked House.
December 2024 –
Provide festive entertainment for Dickensian Christmas at Kentwell Hall over two weekends.
December 2024 –
Provide tudor entertainment for shop launch of Crooked House Christmas at Goode Flowers in London
November 2024 – With The New Cambridge Waits. Provide music and entertainment for a medieval themed wedding, including loud fanfares, quiet background dinner music, interactive interlude, and huge group dances.
October 2024 – Halloweenies half term event. Providing a mythical character to play music amongst the beautiful backdrop of the Hornbeam Circle at Kentwell Hall. Follow the music of Ostrua the dryad from all over the estate, to find your way to the magical hornbeam circle. First person character, fully immersive visitor engagement, using a wide variety of instruments.
October 2024 – Scaresville The Haunted Village Provide themed hosting for one of the largest scare attractions in East Anglia. Manage group entry, and be the first face of the event.
October 2024 – Haddenham Meet The Tudors. Bring first person tudor character to the village event. This included music, dance, interludes and songs as well as teaching juggling, all on an ad hoc basis as the changing audience called for.
September 2024 – International Festival of Town Pipers in ‘s-Hertogenbosch with The New Cambridge Waits
August 2024 – Kentwell Hall tudor re-enactment. First person demonstrations of historical glass bead making over a charcoal fired furnace.
August 2024 – Bungay Black Shuck Festival. Provide music as part of the parade, and entertain the crowds between festival acts.
July 2024 – Featured Supporting Artist for independent film Accusatus. Providing own costume and instruments. Directed/produced by Jamie Weston
July 2024 – Magic Weekend at Kentwell Hall. Providing a mythical character to play music amongst the beautiful backdrop of the Hornbeam Circle at Kentwell Hall. Follow the music of Ostrua the dryad from all over the estate, to find your way to the magical hornbeam circle. First person character, fully immersive visitor engagement, using a wide variety of instruments.
July 2024 – St Neots Festival with The New Cambridge Waits 45 minute on stage set.
July 2024 – St Andrew’s Church Soham medieval fayre. Provide several sets of period music throughout the day. With The New Cambridge Waits
July 2024 – Thomas Wolseys big Huzzah! This was a culmination of a year of schools work, including workshops leading up to a parade of 350 local school children taking part in a Tudor pavan through the streets of Ipswich. More on the Wolsey 550 project HERE
June 2024 – Tudor re-creation at Kentwell Hall, 4 days of public event and 5 days of schools visits. Provide first person interaction with music and dance for all that come, alongside a great bunch of other tudor players.
June 2024 – Schools workshops as part of the Wolsey550 project. Visit 5 schools and deliver workshop to include life of a tudor player, learn a dance, practice a song, general discussion throughout about tudor times.
June 2024 – King’s Lynn Hanse Festival. With The New Cambridge Waits, provide parade music, and play several sets of music at various locations around the town.
June 2024 – Brightlingsea blessing of the waters. I last minute depped for the usual leader of The Colchester Waits to lead a procession through Brightlingsea. Playing a different part to usual I had a music reminder pinned to my arm!
June 2024 – Colchester Roman and medieval Fayre. Provide walkabout entertainment, seeking out the quiet corners of the festival and filling them with medieval joy.
Photo: Stephen Johnson
May 2024 – Headingham Joust. Dep for the leader of The Colchester Waits, and provide three sets of music a day over two days as part of their jousting event.
May 2024 – Mayday event at Kentwell Hall. First person tudor player.
April 2024 – Shakespeare’s Birthday Bash at St George’s Guildhall in King’s Lynn
March 2024 – Musical dryad character for a private dinner function. Photo taken as I was about to leave my house!
March 2024 – Concert with The New Cambridge Waits in Marks Tey as part of the Colchester Early Music series.
March 2024 – Deliver CPD training to teachers as part of the Wolsey550 project. This was alongside Historic England and Suffolk Music Hub