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St Magnus International Festival, Orkney — Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

  • St Ninian's Kirk by the sea St Ninian's Kirk, Deerness, Orkney (map)

Echo Ensemble join with poet Niall Campbell for an afternoon of song and spoken word in the beautiful acoustic of St Ninian’s Kirk by the sea at Deerness.  Featuring British composers the centrepiece of this concert is Britten’s masterpiece the Hymn to St Cecilia.   Echo Ensemble has quickly become one of the celebrated new ensembles in the world of choral music and the group’s first album Innocence has been nominated as Best Newcomers in the BBC Music Magazine Awards.  They have been ensemble in residence at Ryedale Festival, with the LPO and have specialised in collaborative work with other artforms from visual art to dance

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