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To celebrate Edith Holden?s centenary, a capella folk group Broomdasher perform their new musical show featuring traditional folk songs bring to life her classic book, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady.
Edith Holden?s 1906 diary was a worldwide phenomenon when published in 1977, as her beautiful paintings and words created an exhilarating journey through the seasons. In a show approved and praised by Edith Holden?s estate, Margaret Moore plays Edith and Broomdasher intertwine her animated descriptions with rousing, rueful and romantic songs, recreating an era never to return.
The songs were collected by Cecil Sharp and others from the working folk who lived in Edith?s idealised countryside. The show has added resonance with the current concern over preserving our environment.
Broomdasher is a six-voice acapella folk group from London who have earned an outstanding reputation for their harmonies, arrangements and their engaging live performances. Their recordings are part of the National Sound Archive at the British Library.?
Edith would have been well aware of the folk song revival when she was compiling her diaries. She was an ardent supporter of William Morris?s and John Ruskin?s Arts and Crafts Movement having met and been encouraged by another of the Movement?s leaders, Edward Burne Jones, when she was a pupil at Birmingham School of Art.
Cecil Sharp became an advocate of William Morris having heard him at Cambridge University. Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger made their contribution to the Arts and Crafts Movement in collecting folk songs from labourers, craftsmen and travellers across the whole country.
From around 1903, they transcribed and recorded songs that had only ever been handed down by word of mouth. Thousands of these songs are now stored and logged at Cecil Sharp House, the spiritual home of British Folk Music, in Camden.
The performance will be held in the beautiful gardens of Keats House with an interval for refreshments. Some chairs will be available or enjoy the lawn by bringing your own rug.
Refreshments will be available before the show.
We will go into the library in the event of inclement weather.
All proceeds go to Hampstead Summer Festival?s two beneficiary charities, Hampstead School of Art and Keats Community Library.
With thanks to the main sponsor, Osbornes Law.
10 Keats Grove,
Hampstead,
Greater London,
England,
NW3 2RR.
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