Concert A CHORAL TAPESTRY for Yetholm Parish Church

3:00pm, Sun, 27 Sep 2026

  • Event Details
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  • Type of event: CONCERT - CHOIR
    Start time: 3:00pm
    End time: 4:30pm
    Venue: Yetholm Parish Church
    Main Street
    Kirk Yetholm
    Kelso
    TD5 8PE
    Description: Picture, if you will, a large wall-hung tapestry consisting of various pictured scenes - a wide river, the open countryside, a country fair and a working blacksmiths. The pictures are surrounded by multi-coloured patterns of flowers, birds, and vegetation.
                Our Choral Tapestry this afternoon paints those pictures in music - mainly the stories told in folksong, alongside the patterned surrounds in threads and patches of many colours - silver, blue, nighttime black, yellow     & lilac. 
                A feast for the eyes becomes one for the ears. Then we add words, written especially for this programme by our resident poet Arthur.
    We hope you enjoy the concert.  

    A CHORAL TAPESTRY
    PART ONE
    • ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL [2026 Andante Commission] by Karin Scott
    • SHENANDOAH (2012) arranged by Thomas Hewitt Jones
    • THE SILVER SWAN (1612) by Orlando Gibbons
    • Poem THE OLD WOMAN and the SWAN
    • BUSHES & BRIARS (1908) by Ralph Vaughan Williams
    • BRIGG FAIR (1905) arranged by Percy Grainger
    • Poem THE FLODDEN RIDEOUT
    • THE SONG OF THE BLACKSMITH (1917) arranged by Gustav Holst
    INTERVAL

    PART TWO
    • THE BLUE BIRD (1910) by Charles Villiers Stanford
    • WE'LL GATHER LILACS (1945) by Ivor Novello arranged by Geoffrey Emerson
    • LULLABYE [Goodnight My Angel] (1993) by Billy Joel arranged by Kirby Shaw
    • POEM  LULLABY 
    • GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD (1973)    by Elton John / Bernie Taupin arranged by Wendy Sergeant