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Date: 08/05/2010
Page Last Updated: 22/03/2010
Brief Details: Tickets only £8.00 for an excellent evening out in aid of a new HIV/Aids clinic in Kabubbu Village, Uganda. Tickets from the Old Gaol, Dukes Music or phone 01280 823976
Immanuel's Ground is a costumed group of singers and instrumentalists who perform music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, reviving the psalmody and hymnody of the rural parish church from around 200 years ago, so much beloved of Thomas Hardy and exemplified in his novels and poetry. This raw and exciting music is genuinely "music of the people", which found its way from the established church into the independent chapels, before becoming lost and almost forgotten by the beginning of the twentieth century. The Quire's repertoire also includes secular music from the Georgian period, and psalmody from the American tradition in the same era, taking to heart the instruction of John Wesley to "sing lustily and with good courage".
The evening will be a celebration of music and words from the 16th to 19th Centuries by this famous costumed Quire who will bring to life Buckingham's former Militia!
