Cider with Rosie

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Performed by ARKangel

Produced by Giles Shenton

Laurie Lee’s Rich Memoir of Childhood and Awakening

The Last Witness to a Lost Time … Violin, Guitar, Voice, Spoken Word

Capturing Laurie Lee’s richly descriptive language in a powerful narrative, coloured with a feast of music, ARKangel’s ‘Cider with Rosie’ explores Laurie’s much-loved memoir of childhood in an age of dramatic social change … the damp, cramped Cotswold cottage, the rural poverty following the First World War, an explosion of pigeons, Er down under the Varmint and his never to be forgotten encounter with Rosie Burdock!

Through Spoken Word, Violin, Guitar and Song, ARKangel’s recent programmes have been described as ‘Spellbinding’, ‘Utterly Sublime’, ‘Thought Provoking’, with ‘Mesmerizing Storytelling’.

Interwoven with Haunting Traditional Song and the Music of Vaughan Williams, John Ireland, Elgar Debussy, Holst …