Loki Music

The Capability Consort and colleagues perform songs and music and accompany dances inspired by Dickensian characters and drawn from original sources. The performance is part of this year's Bloomsbury Festival and takes place at the iconic Conway Hall. The public are invited to learn and join in with dances at the end of the programme, and those arriving in period costume will be given a free drink at the bar.

The Capability Consort [and colleagues]

William Summers - Flute

Diane Moore - Violin

Jacob Garside - Cello

Ian Watt - Guitar

with Patricia Hammond - Voice; Darren Royston - Choreography

The consort uses period instruments - accurate copies or originals from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The material for this performances will be drawn both from the nearby Charles Dickens Museum

and from the published music of John Oxenford - who set Oliver Twist to music - and William Chappell, who were largely responsible for the re-popularisation of folk and Elizabethan songs in the mid-nineteenth century. We will also incorporate one or two local ballads published in the same era. 

Tickets are available HERE.

The portrait was drawn in chalk by Samuel Laurence in 1838, and the original can be found in the National Portrait Gallery.