GreenMatthews
St George's Memorial Church, Ypres
Elverdingestraat 1
Apr 6, 2024
8:30 PM GMT+2
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Join us for a very special concert in St George's Memorial Church in Ypres, Belgium
EN: Created to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Great War, acclaimed musicians Chris Green and Sophie Matthews use music and song to tell the story of "The War to End All Wars".
The Men Who Marched Away is a scintillating mixture of soldiers’ songs, music hall numbers, war poems set to new music and original compositions. The show does not flinch from conveying the full horror of the first global conflict but also celebrates the courage and humour of the tommies under fire and those they left behind.
Featuring a host of wartime standards such as Pack Up Your Troubles, Tipperary and Goodbye-ee as well as brand-new musical settings of poems by lesser-known war poets such as May Wedderburn Cannan and C. Fox-Smith, The Men Who Marched Away is a moving tribute to the fallen and a fitting reminder of their sacrifice.
TICKETS | €18 Adult | €15 Under-25s, member of the armed forces and veterans
NE: Gemaakt om de honderdste verjaardag van de Grote Oorlog te herdenken, gebruiken de veelgeprezen muzikanten Chris Green en Sophie Matthews muziek en zang om het verhaal van "de oorlog om alle oorlogen te beëindigen' te vertellen".
'The Men Who Marched Away' is een wervelende mix van soldatenliederen, music hall-liederen, oorlogsgedichten met nieuwe muziek en originele composities. De show deinst er niet voor terug om de volledige gruwel van het eerste wereldwijde conflict over te brengen, maar viert ook de moed en humor van de aangevallen "tommies" (Engelse soldaten) en degenen die ze achterlieten.
The Men Who Marched Away is een ontroerend eerbetoon aan de gevallenen en een passende herinnering aan hun opoffering.
TICKETS | € 18 Volwassene | € 15 onder de 25 jaar, strijdkrachten en veteranen
FR: Créé pour commémorer le centième anniversaire de la Grande Guerre, les musiciens acclamés Chris Green et Sophie Matthews utilisent la musique et la chanson pour raconter l'histoire de ‹‹la guerre pour mettre fin à toutes les guerres››.
The Men Who Marched Away est un mélange scintillant de chansons de soldats, de chants de music-hall, de poèmes de guerre sur de nouveaux airs et de compositions originales. Le spectacle n'hésite pas à transmettre toute l'horreur du premier conflit mondial, mais célèbre également le courage et l'humour des ‹‹tommies›› sous le obusiers et de ceux qu'ils ont laissés derrière eux.
The Men Who Marched Away est un hommage émouvant aux morts et un rappel approprié de leur sacrifice.
BILLETS | 18 € Adulte | 15 € moins de 25 ans, militaire et vétérans
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Chris Green and Sophie Matthews are modern-day balladeers, specialising in telling stories through song.
GreenMatthews are firm believers in the age-old power of narrative song to delight contemporary audiences. Taking their cue from ancient troubadour tradition, they are 21st-century wandering players – touring their self-created shows extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Although their music and tales are rooted in the past, the performance is entirely of the 21st century, immediate and accessible to modern audiences.
CHRIS GREEN
Born into a musical family in Coventry, Chris began playing guitar at the age of eight and piano from the age of nine, and plays most things with fretted strings or keys. Largely self-taught, he’s worked in a variety of musical genres including folk, theatre and early music. He’s a regular musician at Shakespeare’s Globe and was also one of the musicians on BBC’s Poldark, appearing in series 1 and 2. He also writes and composes, having adapted The Wind in the Willows (2017) for GreenMatthews as well as A Christmas Carol: In Concert (2018). He has also recently released his first solo album Switched-On Playford, which fuses 17th-century dance music with electronica, using a blend of early instruments, synths and loops. He’s currently working on a new live score for the 1922 silent film Nosferatu.
www.chrisgreenmusic.co.uk
SOPHIE MATTHEWS
Sophie began playing flute at the age of ten but is now more well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK. She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife and recorder. She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe similar to the Northumbrian smallpipes. Sophie is also recognised as a superb interpreter of narrative song with a clear, pure and unaffected soprano voice. When not touring with GreenMatthews, Sophie is an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society, lecturing primarily on Music in Art. Sophie also makes instruments (she made her own baroque oboe) and works with respected luthier Tony Millyard on his flutes. She’s previously worked with The Oxford Waits as well as the respected early music collective Piva. Sophie is self-taught on all of her instruments.
www.sophiematthewsmusic.co.uk
Read MoreGreenMatthews are firm believers in the age-old power of narrative song to delight contemporary audiences. Taking their cue from ancient troubadour tradition, they are 21st-century wandering players – touring their self-created shows extensively throughout the UK and Europe. Although their music and tales are rooted in the past, the performance is entirely of the 21st century, immediate and accessible to modern audiences.
CHRIS GREEN
Born into a musical family in Coventry, Chris began playing guitar at the age of eight and piano from the age of nine, and plays most things with fretted strings or keys. Largely self-taught, he’s worked in a variety of musical genres including folk, theatre and early music. He’s a regular musician at Shakespeare’s Globe and was also one of the musicians on BBC’s Poldark, appearing in series 1 and 2. He also writes and composes, having adapted The Wind in the Willows (2017) for GreenMatthews as well as A Christmas Carol: In Concert (2018). He has also recently released his first solo album Switched-On Playford, which fuses 17th-century dance music with electronica, using a blend of early instruments, synths and loops. He’s currently working on a new live score for the 1922 silent film Nosferatu.
www.chrisgreenmusic.co.uk
SOPHIE MATTHEWS
Sophie began playing flute at the age of ten but is now more well-known for her prowess on the English border bagpipes and has become one of the foremost players of the instrument in the UK. She also plays a variety of early woodwind instruments such as shawm, rauschpfeife and recorder. She’s also one of a handful of British players of the baroque musette, an 18th century French bagpipe similar to the Northumbrian smallpipes. Sophie is also recognised as a superb interpreter of narrative song with a clear, pure and unaffected soprano voice. When not touring with GreenMatthews, Sophie is an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society, lecturing primarily on Music in Art. Sophie also makes instruments (she made her own baroque oboe) and works with respected luthier Tony Millyard on his flutes. She’s previously worked with The Oxford Waits as well as the respected early music collective Piva. Sophie is self-taught on all of her instruments.
www.sophiematthewsmusic.co.uk
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