Celebrate Old Twelvey Night in Rockhampton
Join Louis Bingham and Griselda Sanderson on 17 January to celebrate "Old Twelvey Night". This is the day that wassailers visited the cider orchards of England reciting incantations and singing to the trees for a good harvest for the coming year.
Louis and Griselda are a mother and son duo who keep alive the timeless traditions of a musical family. Louis plays fretted instruments such as the Celtic cittern, guitar, and Bulgarian tambura, as well as being an accomplished singer. Griselda plays bowed string instruments including the violin, the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and the Swedish nyckelharpa. Drawing on midwinter sessions around the hearth they’ve taken their diverse repertoires and combined them to create a distinctive duo sound and a repertoire reaches from Galicia to Norway, from Donegal to Piedmont, and many more places in between.
Louis and Griselda are a mother and son duo who keep alive the timeless traditions of a musical family. Louis plays fretted instruments such as the Celtic cittern, guitar, and Bulgarian tambura, as well as being an accomplished singer. Griselda plays bowed string instruments including the violin, the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle, and the Swedish nyckelharpa. Drawing on midwinter sessions around the hearth they’ve taken their diverse repertoires and combined them to create a distinctive duo sound and a repertoire reaches from Galicia to Norway, from Donegal to Piedmont, and many more places in between.
Tickets available online from 18 Dec
Scroll down to the bottom of this page to buy your tickets quickly and easily online. They're £10 (or £5 for under-18s and students). The venue isn't very big so get your tickets soon !
Making a difference
Making a difference to the local community is at the heart of the Rockhampton Folk Festival. Knowing that some groups in our community rarely have the opportunity to engage with live performance, we bring festival music to them instead.
Louis and Griselda will also be touring care homes and special schools courtesy of the proceeds from this event and the summer festival.Find out more about out outreach work here.
Louis and Griselda will also be touring care homes and special schools courtesy of the proceeds from this event and the summer festival.Find out more about out outreach work here.
Get Tickets
You can get tickets quickly and easily here.
You should get a confirmation email within a few minutes of your order. This is your ticket - print it out or show it on your phone at the door. Very occasionally the confirmation gets stuck in junk mail so if you don't receive it please contact us and we'll send it again.
You should get a confirmation email within a few minutes of your order. This is your ticket - print it out or show it on your phone at the door. Very occasionally the confirmation gets stuck in junk mail so if you don't receive it please contact us and we'll send it again.
The small print...
- Ticket purchases are non-refundable.
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