See below the details of an invitation from our Cycle of Songs partner organization at Great St Mary's heritage to support them for their two musical history events -  to mark 450th Anniversary of Elizabeth I's visit to Cambridge - tons of music from Elizabethan Waites - ending with a special evensong at King's College Chapel - details below:

 

We have a wonderful concert at 7.30 pm on 6 September “In Peascod Time: Music, Words and Song for Summer and the Harvest” inside Great St Mary’s - tickets are on the door - £15 and concessions available

Join us with the Passamezzo ensemble for a collection of ballads, readings, madrigals, lutesongs, dance melodies and consort music from sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, inspired by nature and in particular summertime and the harvest.

 

The musicians will be in Elizabethan costume and Queen Elizabeth I herself will make an appearance during the evening, in advance of her official royal visit to Cambridge on Saturday 13 September. 2014 is the 450th anniversary of the Queen’s only trip to Cambridge, which was marked by music, pageantry and celebrations.?? The concert programme includes music by Cavendish, Bennet, Greene, East, Johnson, Pilkington, Purcell and Robinson, and words by Breton, Herrick, Nashe and Shakespeare.

 

 

GREAT ST MARY’S – SAT 13th September - free music and fun for the day! 

Elizabethan Extravaganza Saturday 13 September with pageant procession from 1.30pm to celebrate the 450th anniversary of Elizabeth I’s royal visit to Cambridge - music all afternooon!

Come and enjoy Tudor music, food and craft activities and a Tudor market in Great St Mary’s church yard from 11.00am ending in King's Chapel at 4.00pm

 

At 1.30pm the Virgin Queen will arrive and invite her loyal subjects to join the parade of time-travelling Elizabethans as they walk through the centre of Cambridge. The royal procession will visit historic colleges and enjoy music, dance and the day will end with a special evensong in King’s College Chapel. See the route and timetable below.

 

The whole pageant is free and has been supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund. It is one of the highlights of this year’s Open Cambridge, a special weekend in September when Cambridge unlocks its secrets and welcomes you through the doors of some of its most beautiful and intriguing places.

 

Elizabethan Pageant – Saturday 13 September  

Feel free to drop in for part of the day or follow the royal procession all afternoon. All timings are approximate.

 

§  11am-1.30pm: Tudor crafts, baking and market traders at Great St Mary’s.

§  1.30pm: Meet the Queen as she emerges from Great St Mary’s with a fanfare and visits the Tudor market. Follow the parade to St John’s College along Trinity Street.

§  2pm: Follow the parade to St John’s College along Trinity Street.

§  2.30pm: The procession arrives at St John’s to hear about Elizabeth’s great-grandmother in the chapel, or visit the Old Library to see the exhibition of Tudor treasures.

§  3.15pm: Fanfare and speech about Elizabeth’s illustrious father, Henry VIII, at Trinity Great Gate. The procession returns to Great St Mary’s and market square.

§  3.45pm: Elizabeth meets the mayor, Cllr Gerri Bird at the Guildhall.

§  4pm: The royal party arrives at King’s College gates and walks to the Chapel, where visitors can enter this magnificent building free of charge with the Queen as she is greeted by organ music and a special sung evensong.

§  5.15pm: The Queen departs to her lodgings and says goodbye to her subjects at King’s College Chapel.