York: City Under Siege 2009

English Civil War Festival   22 -28 August 2009

9.15am - 5pm    depart Memorial Gardens, Station Road

A day-long walk around the battlefield of Marston Moor.  Your costumed guide will take you to places and tell stories of a battle that shaped our history forever.  Coach travel to and from Long Marston.  Lunch available on request.

ADMISSION: £12 adult, £10 concessions, contact Jorvik booking office on 01904 615505.

7.30pm  The Quire, York Minster
(With permission of the Dean and Chapter)

Music for Troubled Times

On 16 June 1644, Trinity Sunday, the forces besieging the north of the city mined the city walls at Marygate ‘in time of Common-Prayer at the Minster' which was ‘squeezing full' with the local population and Royalist Army. Join the choir for a programme of 17th-century choral music by Byrd and Gibbons, and music written for performance in the Minster during the Siege including works by William Lawes, a musician of Charles I who died during the Siege of Chester in 1645.

ADMISSION: £12 adult, various concessions, contact York Minster Box Office on 01904 557208.