Author: Barbara Dunn

Barbara trained as a teacher and worked for most of her career in Primary Education, eventually serving as a headteacher in Reading and then in Worcester, before taking early retirement. She has been involved with Worcestershire Early Music from its beginning, delivering workshops and organising concerts and the Pride and Prejudice Ball. Barbara is an enthusiastic amateur musician, playing regularly in many different formal and informal gatherings. She performs with the Lachrimae Consort on flute and recorder

Donate to Worcestershire Early Music here

We are currently raising money from our online Baroquathon, which will be divided between Worcestershire Early Music (to support the musicians who were to be performing in our 2020 Festival), the Elgar School of Music, and Help Musicians UK (Spotify is matching the money raised by various musical charities including Help Musicians up to a maximimum of $10 million).

We’re suggesting a minimum of £5 per entry for the Baroquathon, but please give as much as you can afford.

COVID-19: EVENTS CANCELLED

We very much regret that we have had to cancel our future planned Worcestershire Early Music events including the 2020 Festival, Baroquathon and Pride & Prejudice Ball.

Ticket refunds are available from Eventbrite or Worcester Live.

We very much hope that our 2020 Festival will be able to take place in 2021! The dates are now fixed – Friday 21 to Sunday 23 May.

In Ecclesiis – a very special concert!

I can’t promise that we’ll be dressed like this…but the sounds will be similar on 7 March, 7.30pm, when the The Oriel Singers will join the Worcester Early Music Band of violins, cornetts, sackbuts and bass viol for music by De Padilla, Monteverdi, Schütz, Rossi, Gabrieli and more at St Martin’s Church, London Road, Worcester

Tickets from the Oriel Singers website, or Worcester Live (01905 611427 and in person at Huntingdon Hall)

Lion Ballroom Tea Dance

Our first event of 2020 was the Pride and Prejudice Tea Dance in the Lion Ballroom, Leominster. Dancers arrived from Oxford and Cardiff and all places in between, to dance a selection of carefully chosen dances led by Dancing Master, Brian Stanton. Music was provided by Peter and Moira of Dampiers Round.

We found out that a Buskin is not only the name of an 18th century dance but it refers to the laces of a type of footwear worn at the time…..even by Robinson Crusoe, as described by Daniel Defoe. It’s amazing what you learn with Worcestershire Early Music!