Dowland's Foundry
Nightly Cares: A Pilgrim’s Solace
Dowland Day: Concert 2
John Dowland’s fascination with night culminated in his fourth and final songbook, A Pilgrimes Solace (1612). Depicting a dark night of the soul, Dowland’s songbook can be seen as a navigation through anxiety and insomnia where faith and music lead towards dawn and a kind of stoical resolution.
Dowland’s Foundry explores this extraordinary book through a contemporary mental health lens.
Dowland’s Foundry explores this extraordinary book through a contemporary mental health lens.
Brighton Early Music Festival
Sat, 17 October 2026
St Nicholas Church, Brighton
6:30pm
£20 (conc. available)
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John Dowland’s fascination with night culminated in his fourth and final songbook, A Pilgrimes Solace (1612). Depicting a dark night of the soul, Dowland’s songbook can be seen as a navigation through anxiety and insomnia where faith and music lead towards dawn and a kind of stoical resolution.
Dowland’s Foundry explores this extraordinary book through a contemporary mental health lens.
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Location
St Nicholas Church, Brighton
Church Street, Brighton BN1 3LJ
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