Kantos Choir - The Witch Trials
The Old Woollen, Sunny Bank Mills, 83- 85 Town Street, Farsley, Leeds, LS28 5UJ
£15 Full Price; £10 Full Time Students/Under 30s/Unwaged. Doors 7pm. Show Starts 8pm.
A mirror to our callous hearts!
The infamous stories of the trials, torture and execution of witches are surely just abominable tales of a bygone era? Yet, with each and every unspeakable act we witness in the modern world, perhaps the Witch Trials tell us just as much about human nature today.
After sell-out performances of the Witch Trials in 2018 & 2019, music and spoken word sit alongside one another once again in 2022, offering an immersive reflection into the Lancashire Witch Trials of 1612.
Featuring Camden Reeves’s haunting ‘Spells, Remedies & Potions’ ("think Black Sabbath and Metallica but for sopranos”), alongside music by Allegri, Byrd, Palestrina, Wainwright Johnston, and a new arrangement of a 17th-Century Barbara Strozzi song, this performance takes you on a captivating journey to a dark past and back again.
Led by Ellie Slorach, Kantos regularly records for BBC Radio (Daily Service and Sunday Worship programmes) and performs and records with orchestras including the BBC Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Northern Ballet Sinfonia.