Blondel - Cover Story
Swift Suite, Whately Hall, Banbury, OX16 0AN
Saturday 26th September 2026
Cover Story
Blondel - shawms, bagpipes, slide trumpet, sackbut, recorders & percussion
Works by Machaut, Dufay, Morton, Bedyngham, Josquin, Obrecht, Paumann and more, Cover Story tracks connections between people, places, texts and music. It follows the spread of popular late medieval melodies across Europe, as they are copied, repurposed, and evolved over many decades. What makes a song leap across national boundaries and language barriers, slip from the secular to the ecclesiastic, and remain at the top of the charts for more than 70 years? We don’t have the formula, but we know why these pieces wedged themselves into the cultural background of medieval Europe. The music is fabulous, and audiences today love it too.
Blondel - shawms, bagpipes, slide trumpet, sackbut, recorders & percussion
Belinda Paul, Emily Baines, Lizzie Gutteridge & Daniel Serafini
Blondel - shawms, bagpipes, slide trumpet, sackbut, recorders & percussion
Works by Machaut, Dufay, Morton, Bedyngham, Josquin, Obrecht, Paumann and more, Cover Story tracks connections between people, places, texts and music. It follows the spread of popular late medieval melodies across Europe, as they are copied, repurposed, and evolved over many decades. What makes a song leap across national boundaries and language barriers, slip from the secular to the ecclesiastic, and remain at the top of the charts for more than 70 years? We don’t have the formula, but we know why these pieces wedged themselves into the cultural background of medieval Europe. The music is fabulous, and audiences today love it too.
Blondel - shawms, bagpipes, slide trumpet, sackbut, recorders & percussion
Belinda Paul, Emily Baines, Lizzie Gutteridge & Daniel Serafini
