Midwinter Revels

GreenMatthews return to The Courtyard this winter with festive performance, Midwinter Revels.

Spanning several centuries, Midwinter Revels is a celebration of Yuletide Past, guaranteed to warm the cockles of even the most Scrooge-like heart.

Featuring Christmas carols, winter folk songs, and a plethora of weird and wonderful instruments, the show is brought to life with GreenMatthews’ trademark wit and humour.

Taking their cue from ancient troubadour tradition, GreenMatthews are 21^st century wandering players, touring their self-created shows extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Although their music and tales are rooted in the past, the performance is entirely of the 21^st century, immediate and accessible to modern audiences.

Largely self-taught, Chris Green has experience in a variety of musical genres including folk, theatre and early music. He is a regular musician at Shakespeare’s Globe and was also one of the musicians on BBC’s Poldark, appearing in series 1 and 2. Chris has also recently released his first solo album Switched-On Playford, which fuses 17th-century dance music with electronica, using a blend of early instruments, synths and loops.

Sophie Matthews began playing flute at the age of ten but is now more well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK. She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife and recorder. She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe like the Northumbrian small pipes. When not touring with GreenMatthews, Sophie is an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society, lecturing primarily on Music in Art.

Midwinter Revels will be in The Courtyard’s Studio Theatre on Saturday 30 November at 7.45pm. To book tickets, or for more information contact the Box Office on 01432 340555 or visit.