DISS2015 - The Story of the Jig

Lucie Skeaping, Jon Banks: illustrated lecture

5.15pm Upper Gatehouse
£8 / Under 16s £4

Lucie Skeaping – singer, multi-instrumentalist, writer and presenter of Radio 3’s The Early Music Show – explores the rumbustious, witty world of the dramatic jig. A popular crowd-pleaser in the late 16th and mid-17th century, the dramatic jig was a short, comic, bawdy musical-drama which included elements of dance, slapstick and disguise. With a cast of ageing cuckolds and young head-strong wives, knavish clowns, roaring soldiers and country bumpkins, jigs often followed as afterpieces at London’s playhouses, and were performed at fairs, in villages and in private houses. Troublesome to the authorities, they drew the crowds by offering a lively antidote to more sober theatrical fare.

Lucie Skeaping was a founder member of the early music group City Waites and the pioneering klezmer band The Burning Bush. She is joined by Jon Banks, a regular performer and musical director at the Globe Theatre, and as well as a collaborator with Maddy Prior, the Dufay Collective and the Palestinian group Al-Ashekeen.

Part of the Dartington International Summer School concert and event programme.

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