A concert by the very popular Sussex Harmony ensemble, performed in authentic rural costumes and held in the atmospheric setting of Warbleton Church. This well attended event combined accomplished musical rendition with fascinating stories and readings that brought to life the historical rural context from which this music was born. Sussex Harmony was formed to keep alive the music performed in rural parishes before 1850. Written for and by amateur musicians, singers and instrumentalists joined in psalms, hymns, canticles and carols that can be florid and joyful, or soulful and melancholy. This is called West Gallery music, so called because it was often performed from a gallery at the west end of a church, like the one at Warbleton.
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