The Fine Hand blend medieval European song and Appalachian ballad traditions in a journey through migration and memory, presented as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival.
The Fine Hand are playing St George's Church in Kemptown on Friday 16 October, as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival. The evening is called Send it by the Water, and it's built around the ensemble tracing the line between medieval European song and the ballad traditions of Appalachia.
It's an odd pairing on paper — the courtly songs of old Europe and the folk ballads of the American mountains — but that's exactly where the show lives. The group blends historical performance, improvisation and folk traditions to build a journey through migration, memory, imagined homelands and the dreams we inherit. It's a way of hearing how songs travel across oceans and centuries, and how they change along the way.
The performance is presented as part of the Brighton Early Music Festival, so it sits within a wider programme of early music across the city. The Fine Hand are the ensemble behind it, and they're the ones bringing these two traditions together in one set.
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It starts at 19:30 at St George's Church, on St George's Road in Kemptown (BN2 1ED). Tickets are £18 standard and £9 concession, though those are guide prices and could change, so it's worth checking before you head down.
