ARKangel

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 Upbeat, Soulful, Exquisite.... A highly experienced professional duo, ARKangel have an exciting and sophisticated repertoire for festivals, recitals and theatres. See below for the different productions. 

 Laurie Lee’s Rich Memoir of Childhood and Awakening

The Last Witness to a Lost Time 

… Violin, Guitar, Voice, Spoken Word 

Capturing Laurie Lee’s richly descriptive language in a powerful narrative, coloured with a feast of music, ARKangel’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ explores Laurie’s much-loved memoir of childhood in an age of dramatic social change … the damp, cramped Cotswold cottage, the rural poverty following the First World War, an explosion of pigeons, Er down under the Varmint and his never to be forgotten encounter with Rosie Burdock!

Through Spoken Word, Violin, Guitar and Song, ARKangel’s recent programmes have been described as ‘Spellbinding’, ‘Utterly Sublime’, ‘Thought Provoking’, with ‘Mesmerizing Storytelling’.

Interwoven with Haunting Traditional Song and the Music of Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Elgar Debussy, Holst …

Having performed in venues and festivals across the UK, ‘Lullaby of Andalusia’ was premiered at Liverpool Philharmonic Hall as the scene setter for Paco Peña’s ‘Requiem Flamenco’ and ‘Histoire du Tango’ was performed to a sell-out crowd at the prestigious Three Choirs Festival.

Future dates

18 June 2025  The Red Lion, Ilmington, Warks

Past dates

22 April 2025  Bear Pit Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warks

26 April 2025  Quenington Village Hall, Glos

3 May 2025  Cygnet Theatre, Exeter, Devon

18 June 2025  The Red Lion, Ilmington, Warks

 Laurie Lee’s epic teenage walk from his Cotswold home into the jaws of the Spanish Civil War.

Performed through violin, guitar and voice.

Through music and word, trace the journey of Laurie Lee, violinist and dreamer … from the comfort of rural Gloucestershire to the deprivations of a life on the road … from the smoldering gypsies of Malaga to the fire-blackened Christ of Almuñécar… from the naivety of a nineteen-year-old to the Spanish Socialist call to arms.

… interwoven with the music of Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Manuel de Falla, Rodrigo, Lorca, traditional Cante Flamenco …

The Vagabond, Maa Bonny Lad, Zorongo Gitano, Nana, Ritual Fire Dance, El Pano Moruno, Anda Jaleo …

"Power and Passion’…... ‘Utterly Sublime" 

"Transported to another Time and Place"

"...a feast of music and poetry that manages to bring the primary source material alive"

Future dates

Past dates

5 Jan 2025  Players Theatre, Thame, Oxon

 9 Oct 2025  Corn Hall, Diss, Suffolk