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Georgettes of Oxford’s Historical Christmas Celebration in Abingdon Abbey Buildings

Sunday, January 5, 2025 at 6:00 pm - 9:30 pm

£30

Georgettes of Oxford cordially invites you to attend our historical Christmas festivities.
Come and experience the type of festive gathering Jane Austen would have had with her family in the Georgian or Regency times, in the Medieval Abingdon Abbey Buildings.

Following from the medieval tradition that the Christmas Season spanned from the 6th of December to the 6th of January, people in the 18th and early 19th centuries had their largest Christmastide celebration on the 5th of January – Twelfth Night, so called because the 5th was the twelfth day of Christmas. This was a time for friends and family to gather at home, in their country estates and partake in dancing, music and parlour games.

 Join Georgettes as we recreate the type of festivities people in the Georgian and Regency times would have had on Twelfth Night in the gorgeously historical Abingdon Abbey Buildings, where we shall have a masked dance (traditional for Twelfth Night), play festive parlour games, sample historical Christmas sweet treats, dance to and listen to world class early music musicians playing for us on period instruments.

The Musicians
Kate Allsop is a recorder and cornetto player, who specialises in early music and plays with several groups including Galliarda, Ensemble La Notte and the English Wind Consort. She graduated with an MMus (Distinction) from the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in 2020, following a BMUs (Hons) at the same institution and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague.
Ibrahim Aziz is a viola da gamba player performing old and new music on his instrument. A regular with The Rose Consort of Viols, Chelys Consort and several other early music ensembles, he also works with modern orchestras from time to time, and will soon be performing with the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. He has recorded on the BIS, Delphian, Signum and other labels and has two solo albums on First Hand Records.

Details

Date:
Sunday, January 5, 2025
Time:
6:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Cost:
£30
Event Category:
Website:
https://georgettesofoxford.com/socials/

Venue

Abingdon Abbey Buildings
12 Checker Walk
Abingdon, OX14 3JB Abingdon
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