Location: St Andrew’s Parish Church, Sedbergh
Website: https://redpriest.com/
Admission: Adult: £15.00 Under 18: £8.00
Festival: This event is part of Sedbergh Music Festival
An evening of fabulous musicianship and fun from this world renowned baroque supergroup who hit the baroque scene a decade or so ago and have received rave reviews everywhere.
This is definitely not how you may imagine straight-laced baroquery but you will certainly be entertained by Piers Adams and his accomplices.
‘Astonishing all-out virtuosity’ – New York Times, March 2018
This extraordinary acoustic foursome has been described by music critics as ‘visionary and heretical’, ‘outrageous yet compulsive’, ‘wholly irreverent and highly enlightened’, ‘completely wild and deeply imaginative’, with a ‘red-hot wicked sense of humour’ and a ‘break-all-rules, rock-chamber concert approach to early music’.
Red Priest has given several hundred sell-out concerts in many of the world’s most prestigious festivals, including the Hong Kong Arts Festival, Moscow December Nights Festival, Schwetzingen Festival, Prague Spring Festival, Ravinia Festival, Bermuda Festival, and in most European countries, Japan, Australia, and throughout North and Central America.
These musicians have redefined the art of period performance, creating a virtual orchestra through their creative arrangements, performing from memory with swashbuckling virtuosity, heart-on-sleeve emotion and compelling stagecraft. Their repertoire ranges from obscure 17th century sonatas to the most famous works of Bach and Vivaldi, all presented in imaginative programmes with filmic titles: ‘Priest on the Run’, ‘Nightmare in Venice’, ‘Pirates of the Baroque’, ‘Johann, I’m Only Dancing’.
