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A new trio focussed on presenting small-scale 'portraits' of baroque chamber music in a portable and flexible format.

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The Festival was created in 1997 to introduce audiences to the immense wealth of music associated with Advent, Christmas and Epiphany, from the Medieval to the Baroque, intertwined with the sagas, stories and tales of the north.

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