So another Red Priest year comes to a close… as we pass the solstice (which happens to be Piers’ birthday too) it’s a good moment to reflect on the past year, and to cast eyes forward to the next.

 

2018 saw tours to the USA, Canada, Germany, Switzerland and all over the UK, including a gala televised performance to an audience of 4000 at the famous Llangollen Eisteddford.  The group’s February performance in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was praised in the New York Times for its ‘astonishing, all-out virtuosity’.   Much of the year’s touring focussed on material from the No.1 bestselling album, The Baroque Bohemians (available at redpriest.com if you’re still looking for that very late Christmas present…)

 

2019 is already shaping up to be a bumper year; in the first three months the group will be travelling once more to America, Germany and Switzerland, taking in a bracing week in the Scottish Highlands before jetting off to New Zealand for most of March.  This will be Red Priest’s first trip to the country, and indeed their first to the Southern Hemisphere since their 2003 tour of Australia.   Please visit the Tour Dates page for full information.

 

Also in the pipeline is the recording of a new CD: Truly, Madly Baroque – which will see the group return to its roots as a serious (if truly mad) virtuoso baroque ensemble… details will follow as the year unfolds.

 

Finally anyone looking to welcome in 2019 with a smile might like to catch Piers as guest artist, and no doubt butt of some recorder-related jokes, at musical comedian Rainer Hersch’s New Years Eave Bash in the Cadogan Hall, London.  Tickets are available here.

 

That’s all for 2018 so we wish you a happy and relaxing Christmas, thank you for your on-going support, and look forward to seeing many of you in 2019!

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