Narthen: Icicles & Inglenooks

Tickets £15 / £14 concessions. Doors open 7.30pm, starts 8pm.

This gig is for a seated audience.

The winter season whilst often cold can be thawed by heart lifting music that includes polyphonic, four-part, unaccompanied carols from Yorkshire and beyond and tunes that make you want to dance. Thrown into this music season's mix may include irreverent songs about pheasants and other seasonal fair. Their annual show aims to thaw your icicles and warm your inglenooks.

Multi-instrumentalists and singers, the range of sound that they are able to produce is mind boggling. There is a huge dollop of humour in their shows and a wide range of material. Their performances at Folk Weekend Oxford resulted in a new description "The mighty Narthen".

The term 'Narthen' is akin to 'Now then', 'what gives', 'what's happening now?'. Here is what's happening now. Our aim, no matter the line-up, has always been to sing and play the songs and tunes that reflect our individual personalities and tastes. From the tradition through to modern times, anything goes, and that material is expressed through vocal harmony and a large variety of instruments. All sing, all play and the instruments include Soprano sax, clarinet, whistles, fiddles, viola, hammer dulcimer, tenor guitar, diatonic accordeon and hurdy gurdy. Expect the unexpected from Jo Freya, Fi Fraser, Sarah Matthews and Doug Eunson.

Jo Freya – Soprano Sax, Clarinet, Whistles and vocals

Fi Fraser – Hammered Dulcimer, Fiddle, Vocals

Sarah Matthews – Violin, Viola, Vocals

Doug Eunson- Diatonic Accordeon, Hurdy-Gurdy, Vocals