Folk

FOLK CONCERT - Songs and Stories by Mike Bosworth

Venue: 
St Mary's Church, East Street, Denbury, Nr Newton Abbot. TQ12 6DH
Event Date: 
Sunday, January 28, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:15
Category: 

A Folk Concert of Devon Folk Songs from the collection of Rev Sabine Baring-Gould and the first part of the story of his life given by Mike Bosworth.

This will be the first concert in a South Devon Church in the Centenary year of Sabine's death.

SABINE BARING-GOULD was a songman not a musician "A Most Remarkable Devonian", who was a pioneer in the field of Folk Song. His life story is not often told in song and tales. Some of the songs you may even know and there will be opportunity to sing along.

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