Yes, it’s just over 6 weeks to go until Richard Durrant heralds the start of the Christmas season with his family-friendly candlelit tour featuring great music and special guests…
With Christmas songs and wintry Folk, traditional carols and solo guitar music this tour promises a welcome seasonal feast and the first live tour for nearly two years.
And this Christmas tour has a fantastic line up: Richard will be joined by sons Django and Felix alongside legendary musician Brian Gulland and much loved tour regular Amy Kakoura.
Amy Kakoura
Amy and Richard have been exploring midwinter together for nearly a decade, sharing their deep love of the season’s music (and a robust defiance of genre). With a heritage spanning Greece, Ireland and England,
Amy’s inimitable voice can evoke ancient medieval chant, folk, jazz & soul and has done so onstage in the UK and around the globe. Just this month she was a featured artist on BBC Radio 3’s Words and Music and recently composed music for this year’s Coventry City of Culture opening ceremony.
Brian Gulland
The one and only Brian Gulland has joined the tour! Once a Canterbury Chorister, Brian is a multi instrumentalist and composer who has performed with London Pro Musica, Musica Reservata, the New Scorpion Band and Malicorne.
Brian is a founder member of legendary English mediaeval prog band Gryphon. The Candlelit Christmas tour comes hot on the heels of a string of Gryphon dates.
Django & Felix Durrant
Django Durrant first joined the Christmas tour in 2019 on drums and percussion. This year he’ll also be taking on vocal duties and he has contributed a new song to the set list for the first time.
On his first professional tour Djangos’ brother Felix will play bass guitar and keyboards. Already a fine pianist Felix also composes, writes his own songs and plays guitar in various open tunings.