Methera

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Methera - In Concert at the Cheap Street Church, Sherborne, Dorset
Saturday 14th November 7.30pm
Methera is a unique ensemble: a string quartet with roots firmly planted in English traditional music. Their national tours, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts and collaborations have helped them establish a reputation as a scintillating live act, blazing a trail through the uncharted territory that lies between folk and chamber music.

Lucy Deakin (cello), John Dipper and Emma Reid (fiddles) and Miranda Rutter (viola) combine a deep knowledge of traditional music with a wide range of other influences and expertise and a deep sense of musical interaction. Newly composed pieces sit alongside timeless traditional material; their music is both sophisticated and earthy, groundbreaking and familiar, enchanting and thrilling.

“They play without sheet music, so it is lively and risky…but this isn’t a trad session on posh instruments. Methera's musicians play with all the accuracy and intensity that distinguishes chamber music…it is original and highly enjoyable.” Julian May, Songlines