Maddy Prior & The Carnival BandCarols & Capers Tour 2021

December 2, 2021

Carols & Capers Tour 2021

The Carnival Band are 5 Musical Explorers, 5 voices, 25 instruments, 5 dozen styles of music and 5 hundred fresh ideas for music making, combining music from across the centuries with sounds from around the world in an irreverently joyous mix! If life is determined by a series of happy accidents, then somebody upstairs was beaming long and hard the day the Carnival Band happened to come across Maddy Prior, one of the most enduring, influential and respected artists in British music. Thrown together in 1984 on a ‘let’s see what we come up with’ basis for a Yuletide Radio 2 broadcast. What began as a one-off session in a village hall in Cumbria has endured for over thirty-five years and has become something of a tradition in its own right with regular tours and eleven albums released.

“Maddy’s voice is clear as a bell. It actually sounds as if there’s a celebration going on – ”THE GUARDIAN

Following the hugely popular 2018 Christmas tour with the Carnival band and a year of touring with Steeleye Span for their 50th Anniversary, Maddy is now once again joining up with the Carnival Band for this coming Festive Season for their unique celebratory show “Carols & Capers”. And like their previous seasonal excursions, this one sees them put their unique stamp on a range of familiar (and not-so-familiar) festive material, whilst also exploring some new and exotic directions.

The Carnival Band are 5 Musical Explorers, 5 voices, 25 instruments, 5 dozen styles of music and 5 hundred fresh ideas for music making, combining music from across the centuries with sounds from around the world in an irreverently joyous mix! If life is determined by a series of happy accidents, then somebody upstairs was beaming long and hard the day the Carnival Band happened to come across Maddy Prior, one of the most enduring, influential and respected artists in British music. Thrown together in 1984 on a ‘let’s see what we come up with’ basis for a Yuletide Radio 2 broadcast. What began as a one-off session in a village hall in Cumbria has endured for over thirty-five years and has become something of a tradition in its own right with regular tours and eleven albums released.

“Maddy’s voice is clear as a bell. It actually sounds as if there’s a celebration going on – ”THE GUARDIAN

Following the hugely popular 2018 Christmas tour with the Carnival band and a year of touring with Steeleye Span for their 50th Anniversary, Maddy is now once again joining up with the Carnival Band for this coming Festive Season for their unique celebratory show “Carols & Capers”. And like their previous seasonal excursions, this one sees them put their unique stamp on a range of familiar (and not-so-familiar) festive material, whilst also exploring some new and exotic directions.

“I love working with the chaps,” Maddy muses, “it’s just so different and they’re so off the wall. Coming from a folk background I can relate to a lot of their dances and early music, but anything less like serious academic concerts when we tour you can’t imagine. When we go out at Christmas, it’s all streamers, balloons and lunacy.”

“A truly superb pack of musicians” – DIRTY LINEN (USA)

“If you haven’t seen them before you’re in for a treat” – OXFORD MAIL

Click here to view the tour trailer: https://youtu.be/mnZiGApyP6Y

CAROLS & CAPERS TOUR DECEMBER 2021

Sat 4th – Kings Hall & Winter Garden Ilkley

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Mon 6th – The Apex Bury St Edmunds

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Tue 7th – St George’s Bristol

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Wed 8th – Corn Exchange Exeter

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