On the 10th December Christmas Champions will be performed at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The performance will begin at 8pm. Christmas Champions is a new live multimedia show, originally written by BBC Folk Award winning duo Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton for BBC Radio 3’s ‘Late Junction’, and commissioned by The Sage, Gateshead as a theatrical performance. Christmas Champions also features members of the English Acoustic Collective – Robert Harbron (Voice and Concertina), John Dipper (Voice and Violin) and Olivia Ross (Voice and Viola). Christmas Champions is directed by Tim Dalling, of ‘The Old String Rope Band’. This festive and unique show mixes the voices of past generation with ritual theatre, seasonal song, storytelling and music, in a celebration of England’s most enduring midwinter custom - The Mummers Play. This is the true, native, vernacular Mystery Play – English voodoo at its most robust, and Christmas Champions brings it vividly to life through Hugh Lupton’s spellbinding storytelling, Chris Wood’s inspired compositions, and the sheer exuberant musicianship of the English Acoustic Collective. "It's rare to hear work as powerful as Chris Wood and Hugh Lupton's. With beautifully sculpted prose and carefully honed music they seduce the minds of those who listen, skilfully drawing on the past to make sense of the present. This is welcome nourishment for people who like to think for themselves." - VERITY SHARP, LATE JUNCTION, BBC RADIO 3 “The words don't just put pictures in your head - you can feel the muddy lanes on your shoes, see the stars, smell the stale ale and tobacco in the pub, and the sweat and the hunger of the musicians as they pass the hat around.”- REVIEW FROM BURY MET www.englishaccousticcollective.org.uk On the 10th December Christmas Champions will be performed at Aberystwyth Arts Centre. The performance will begin at 8pm. Tickets are priced £9 (£8) and are available from Aberystwyth Arts Centre Box Office on 01970 62 32 32 or alternatively book online at www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre. |
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