Talk by Kate Witney, 'A History of carols', on seasonal songs and hymns from medieval to Victorian times, illustrated with her singing.
Kate Witney brings her talk A History of carols to Lincoln Central Library on Thursday 10 December, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm. It's a session run by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology in partnership with the library, so it sits right in the city centre on Free School Lane.
Witney traces seasonal songs and hymns from medieval times through to the Victorian period, and she doesn't just talk through them — she illustrates the history with her own singing. The session covers a fair bit of ground: dance songs from the pilgrim route to Compostela, the Boar's Head's entry into an Oxford feast, and the pagan goings-on around holly and ivy. It's a good way to hear how these songs changed over the centuries, and to hear them sung as they go.
Witney herself is a performer who works across both folk and classical music, and she's a long-time singing teacher who has taught privately and for Lincolnshire Music Service. She was born in Louth and studied at Homerton College, Cambridge, and the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. The talk is organised by the Society for Lincolnshire History & Archaeology, so it's part of their local history work here in the county.
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It runs from 2:00 to 3:30 pm on Thursday 10 December at Lincoln Central Library, Free School Lane, LN1 1EZ. General admission is £3.
