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Grace Newcombe | Elizabeth Sommers

Alysoun

Songs from the people of thirteenth-century Britain

Alysoun
In high-medieval Britain, one of the more pleasant means of saving souls was through the favourite music and poetry of the People. Popular songs from different walks of life were imitated, translated, or repurposed to fit a new religious narrative or to conceal a secular one, wilfully blurring the borders between earthly and devotional love. Leaf through their surviving collections and hear songs about nature, death, the courting of Mary, and Christ the Lover-Knight.

Grace Newcombe (voice and harp)
Elizabeth Sommers (fiddles)


"Newcombe's voice has many admirers" - Gramophone Magazine 2025

https://www.gracenewcombe.com/
https://www.rerenaissance.ch/en/musikerinnen/elizabeth-sommers/


Full Event Details

In high-medieval Britain, one of the more pleasant means of saving souls was through the favourite music and poetry of the People. Popular songs from different walks of life were imitated, translated, or repurposed to fit a new religious narrative or to conceal a secular one, wilfully blurring the borders between earthly and devotional love. Leaf through their surviving collections and hear songs about nature, death, the courting of Mary, and Christ the Lover-Knight.

Grace Newcombe (voice and harp)
Elizabeth Sommers (fiddles)

"Newcombe's voice has many admirers" - Gramophone Magazine 2025

https://www.gracenewcombe.com/
https://www.rerenaissance.ch/en/musikerinnen/elizabeth-sommers/

Venue Details & Map

Location

St Peter’s, Church Knowle
Church Knowle, Wareham BH20 5NF


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