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The Grief House – a talk by Rebecca Thorne
Tuesday 18 November
At the Chapel, Bruton
7pm
Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk
Naissance
Saturday 22 November, 7.30pm
Naissance comprises Jon Lloyd on saxophones, and John Law on piano/samples, producing atmospheric, chilled music both composed and improvised, crossing jazz and classical with ambient minimalism.
Doors open at 7pm, music begins at 7.30pm. Bar available.
Tickets: liveatstmarys
Book Talk with Luke Sherlock
Tuesday 25 November, 7pm, At the Chapel
Forgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden Treasures
The Sunday Times bestseller
Discover England’s Most Beautiful and Overlooked Churches with Forgotten Churches: Exploring England’s Hidden Treasures
For centuries, England’s churches have stood as quiet witnesses to history, filled with remarkable craftsmanship, untold stories, and layers of cultural heritage. Yet many of these extraordinary buildings remain overlooked – until now. Luke Sherlock, or @englishpilgrim, has spent years travelling the length and breadth of England, uncovering hidden architectural gems and sharing their beauty with thousands online. In Forgotten Churches, he invites you on a journey through 70 of the country’s most atmospheric churches, from thousand-year-old Saxon chapels and striking Gothic landmarks to hidden Romanesque sanctuaries and ornate Victorian treasures.
Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk
The Unthanks – SOLD OUT
Friday 5 December, 8pm
How many artists have covered as much musical ground and journeyed so far at The Unthanks over the past two decades? BBC 6 Music regulars, but equally to be found on Radios 2, 3 and 4, the Tyneside band are like magpies, picking up undiscovered jewels, reframing history and drawing on the worlds of folk, jazz, orchestral, electronica and art-rock to create their own unique truth and beauty. They have won Mojo Magazine Folk Album of the Year twice, in The Guardian’s and Uncut’s Best Albums of the Decade, and count amongst their admirers Elvis Costello, Maxine Peake, Michael Sheen, Rosanne Cash, Martin Freeman, Robert Wyatt, Martin Hayes, Nick Hornby, Ben Myers and Dawn French. Using the traditional music of the North East of England as a starting point, the influence of
Miles Davis, Steve Reich, Sufjan Stevens, Robert Wyatt, Antony & The Johnsons, King Crimson
and Tom Waits can be heard in the band’s 16 records to date, earning them a Mercury Music
Prize nomination and international acclaim along the way.
Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk
A Christmas Box of Delights
Sunday 7 December, 3pm
Following the success of their recent concerts Clare Sydenham and David Hindley have prepared a new recital in celebration of Christmas. The programme will comprise the now familiar mixture of piano pieces and readings. Music will range from the serenity of Bach to the quirky humour of Eric Satie while readings will evoke widely varying aspects of Christmas from the medieval Coventry Carol to schoolboy Dylan Thomas snowballing cats on Christmas Eve.
Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk
FEIN Collections [made in new york city] and St Mary's Church, Bruton,
proudly present an evening of poetry
Friday 12 December, 7pm
Award-winning English poet Christopher Villiers is delighted to recite selections from his latest book Versing the Mystery. Christopher will also be signing copies of his book after the reading. This collection of poems verses the mystery of God and Creation. Exploring the stories and characters of Scripture, Classical history and myth, the reader confronts the glory of God and is plunged into the depths of the human condition. This work deals with the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the ridiculous. Twenty-first century readers are confronted by their own needs reflected in the foundations of western civilisation. There are also personal poems of love, hate, success and failure, rooted in the life of a rhyming sinner inhabiting an English village near the sea. And if none of that appeals to you, then at least there are also owls campaigning for political office.
Tickets: TBC
Alessia Bianchi, Harpist
Sunday 21 December, 3pm
An exclusive concert of one of the few performers in the UK of the ancient wire strung harp. An evening of enchanting music that will take you back in time. Alessia graduated from the Conservatory in Pedal and Lever Harp in 2006 and later specialized in the Wire Strung Harp and in the ancient repertoire of Ireland and Scotland. She's been teaching different types of harp for 20 years and she is now one of the few performers in the UK of the ancient Wire Strung Harp. She plays a copy of the 'Downhill' harp, an early 18th-century Irish instrument.
Tickets: liveatstmarys
Save the date:
December 15 Bruton Choral Society Christmas Concert
December 19 The Echoing Air, MESSIAH, 6pm. Tickets: www.ticketsource.co.uk
December 20 St Mary's Coffee Morning, Community Hall, 10am
December 20 St Mary's Carol Service
