Joglaresa: Boogie Knights

Suffolk Villages Festival

A romp through the Middle Ages, where the knights are villainous, the dancers seductive and even the lullabies are groovy. This programme includes Mediaeval hits such as Machaut’s ‘Douce dame jolie’ and ‘Cuncti simus concanentes’  alongside lesserknown pieces such as ‘De muitas guisas’ (‘The imprisoned knight’), ‘Ali u a penedenca’ (‘The thieving knight’) and ‘Sempr’ acha Sancta Maria’ (‘The knight castrated by the Virgin Mary’), all performed with the group’s inimitable energy and cheer. Joglaresa is one of Britain’s leading Medieval groups, regularly touring the world from Amsterdam to the Yemen. It is renowned for transcending boundaries, drawing on Irish, English, Maghrebi, Balkan and Middle Eastern traditions to inform its innovative approach to European Mediaeval music.

Performers:

Joglaresa - Belinda Sykes voice, recorder & director,  Victoria Couper voice, May Robertson fidel & voice, Jeremy Avis voice & percussion, Hazel Askew voice & harp, Elsa Bradley  dulcimer & percussion, 

Jordan Murray dulcimer & percussion