Richard Durrant’s always magical candlelit Christmas concerts have even more sparkle this year as they include music from his album Christmas Guitars, featuring guest vocalist Amy Kakoura and the unmistakable gravelly tones of Barry Cryer.
The 20-date candle-lit concert tour continues with a performance at the Toll Gavel United Church in Beverley on Thursday 27 November, at 2pm.
The audience is promised a musical and visual feast, with beautifully presented wintry music enhanced by specially commissioned projected imagery and lots of candles.
Highlights will include early English carols; Durrant’s superb guitar suite The Polar Bear, with narration recorded by Barry Cryer. The I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue comedy star this time plays it straight, reciting haiku verse in Durrant’s moving depiction of a mother bear and her cubs’ desperate swim for survival through the Arctic ice floes.
Christmas guitars is a deeply personal, kaleidoscopic vision of what the season of goodwill means to Durrant, with traditional and original compositions. Amy Kakoura’s haunting lead vocals give several songs the tingle factor, most notably Emmanuel and the beautiful Clannad-style arrangement of A Northern Winter Night, written by Paul Cartledge.
Tickets cost £14 for adults, £12 for concession and are available from Beverley Tourist Information Office, call 01482 391672.
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