For many of us, this has been a strange Holy Week, with none of the services, music or community that surrounds the liturgical build-up towards Easter Day.  ...

This Thursday, we attempted a virtual rehearsal online. Like 'social distancing', 'furlough' and other terms that have entered everyday vocabulary in recent...

Rather prophetically, since Christmas I've been reading Arthur Ransome's 'Winter Holiday' to my children, a sequel to Swallows and Amazons in which the intre...

The BBC's recent coverage of the centenary commemorations of Passschendale demonstrate the convictions held by a few at the time, and many now : why? Over t...

We're delighted to be participating once again in York's Late Music Festival, on Saturday 7 October. Alongside festival commissions, we're celebrating of w...

After being two years in the pipeline, the first of our two CDs of music from the English Civil War has made it out into the wide world! The CD launch day w...

Trinity Sunday,  15 June 1644, marked a significant escalation in hostilities between the forces loyal to the King occupying York, and those opposed to the K...

On High Petergate (the road leading direct from Bootham Bar, the northern point of entrance into the city, to the Minster), an inauspicious blue plaque notes...

On the South Quire Aisle in York Minster is an imposing monument to a former Archbishop of York, John Dolben (1624-86). Previously Dean of Westminster Abbey...

Although Charles I was in the south during the Siege of York, focusing his personal military campaign on keeping the upper hand in Oxfordshire (Cropredy Brid...

On the trail of a key figure in York's Civil War fortunes, Sir Thomas Fairfax. When Charles I attempted to raise his standard in York in June 1642 Sir Thomas...

We are once again looking forward to our particpation in York Minster's services over Lent and Holy Week. Our regular involvement in Holy Week Compline date...

All the tracks mentioned below are avaible to listen to on our Soundcloud playlist 'Paul's 20th Anniversary Desert Island Discs' https://soundcloud.com/ebor...

What is it about musicians who, usually a financially-savvy bunch who will happily lay down their instruments if they're not paid, but, when the chips are dow...

The Sound of Drums is the working title for our CD focussing on sacred music that provides a commentary on the events of the English Civil War. (Those of yo...

2015 has got off to a busy start, as we prepare for a recording of music from the English Civil War at the end of February. Over the course of the next few m...