{"id":6151,"date":"2014-12-03T16:36:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T15:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/?p=6151"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:28:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T16:28:12","slug":"image-gallery-society-of-strange-and-ancient-instruments-in-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/music-matters\/2014\/12\/03\/image-gallery-society-of-strange-and-ancient-instruments-in-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Gallery: Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments in concert"},"content":{"rendered":"

The long reach of history was felt in the Colyer-Fergusson concert-hall today, as the Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments wove ancient magic in the last of this term’s lunchtime concerts.<\/p>\n

Clare Salaman and Benedicte Maurseth brought not only an exotic range of instruments to the concert, but a wonderfully exploratory sense too; as Clare revealed during the performance, the idea of the programme arose from a desire to explore what musical connections and creativity might have been shared between Scandinavia and the north of England, and combined music by Marais and Purcell with traditional Norwegian folk-music. Both musicians demonstrated wonderful finesse as they drew light-footed musical arabesques\u00a0before a spell-bound audience.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, the players must have felt like pop stars, as the\u00a0\u00a0stage was mobbed by an eager audience keen to learn more about the Hardanger fiddle, the hurdy-gurdy and the nyckelharpa.<\/p>\n