The Vauxhall Band
@thevauxhallband.bsky.social
Period instrument ensemble, London.
Bringing historic music from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens back to life.
www.thevauxhallband.com
Bringing historic music from Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens back to life.
www.thevauxhallband.com
The Basset Horn in Vienna, 13.10.2025
Thanks to everyone who performed and listened.
This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.
Thanks to everyone who performed and listened.
This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.
October 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The Basset Horn in Vienna, 13.10.2025
Thanks to everyone who performed and listened.
This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.
Thanks to everyone who performed and listened.
This concert was generously supported by The Vauxhall Band's Friends & Supporters, and grant awards from Angel Early Music, the Clarinet and Saxophone Society of Great Britain, and The Golsoncott Foundation.
Extend your weekend this Monday with a night out 18th-century Viennese style!
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.
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📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.
thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
October 11, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Extend your weekend this Monday with a night out 18th-century Viennese style!
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.
thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: £20 full price, £5 for students/under 25s.
thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Thank you so much to Continuo Foundation for awarding a project grant to support our 2026 debut recording of chamber and orchestral works featuring basset horns with the renowned Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.
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September 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Thank you so much to Continuo Foundation for awarding a project grant to support our 2026 debut recording of chamber and orchestral works featuring basset horns with the renowned Deux-Elles Classical Recordings.
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Hear Mozart’s solemnly beautiful Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), which includes three basset horns, at our next concert:
🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
September 17, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Hear Mozart’s solemnly beautiful Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), which includes three basset horns, at our next concert:
🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
🎶 The Basset Horn in Vienna
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, East Finchley
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Did you know that Georg Druschetzky wrote a concerto for not one, not two, but THREE basset horns?
Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
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Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
September 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Did you know that Georg Druschetzky wrote a concerto for not one, not two, but THREE basset horns?
Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Hear Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow & Katherine Spencer perform this amazing work:
📆 Monday 13th October 2025
📍 All Saints Church, London N2 9DP
⏰ 19.00
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Concert! 🎶
Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s.
Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.
Book tickets here: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s.
Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.
Book tickets here: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
August 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Concert! 🎶
Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s.
Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.
Book tickets here: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Discover the sounds of the basset horn in Vienna at the height of its popularity there in the 1780s.
Orchestral and chamber music by Mozart and his contemporaries.
Book tickets here: thevauxhallband.com/13th-october...
Just over a week until our Salon Music Supper Concert in Highgate. 🎶
Tickets available below.
Tickets available below.
The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, along with special guest, bassoonist Chris Rawley, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music Supper Concert series in Highgate, London on the 6th July.
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June 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Just over a week until our Salon Music Supper Concert in Highgate. 🎶
Tickets available below.
Tickets available below.
The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, along with special guest, bassoonist Chris Rawley, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music Supper Concert series in Highgate, London on the 6th July.
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/6th-july-202...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The Vauxhall Band Basset Horn Trio, Fiona Mitchell, Sarah Thurlow and Katherine Spencer, along with special guest, bassoonist Chris Rawley, return to perform in the amazing Salon Music Supper Concert series in Highgate, London on the 6th July.
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/6th-july-202...
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/6th-july-202...
Mystery solved! Thank you to one of our social media followers who identified this tune as Delyow Sevi, a traditional Cornish tune.
According to the Cornish National Music Archive records of this tune date back to 1698 when it was sung to Thomas Tonkin, the Cornish scholar, by Edward Chirgwin.
According to the Cornish National Music Archive records of this tune date back to 1698 when it was sung to Thomas Tonkin, the Cornish scholar, by Edward Chirgwin.
May 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Mystery solved! Thank you to one of our social media followers who identified this tune as Delyow Sevi, a traditional Cornish tune.
According to the Cornish National Music Archive records of this tune date back to 1698 when it was sung to Thomas Tonkin, the Cornish scholar, by Edward Chirgwin.
According to the Cornish National Music Archive records of this tune date back to 1698 when it was sung to Thomas Tonkin, the Cornish scholar, by Edward Chirgwin.
Name that tune! 🎶
May 6, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Name that tune! 🎶
Beautiful, sad, profound... How can we even begin to describe the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem?
Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.
Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.
May 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Beautiful, sad, profound... How can we even begin to describe the Lacrimosa from Mozart's Requiem?
Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.
Here’s a moment from rehearsals for our performance with the Choir of St Philip’s Church, directed by Sam Coates, in April.
The bassets are back! And this time…with a bassoon!
Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host and food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
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Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host and food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The bassets are back! And this time…with a bassoon!
Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host and food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com
Music by Druschetzky, Hoffmeister, Nudera and Mozart plus an 18th-century inspired supper created by host and food historian Michelle Berriedale-Johnson.
📆 6th July 2025
📍 Highgate
⏰ 18.30
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We had a great time last night performing Mozart's Requiem with the amazing Choir of St Philip's Church, which includes Libera, directed by Sam Coates.
Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱
Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱
April 7, 2025 at 7:50 PM
We had a great time last night performing Mozart's Requiem with the amazing Choir of St Philip's Church, which includes Libera, directed by Sam Coates.
Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱
Here we're rehearsing the terrifying and awe-inspiring Dies Irae (Day of Wrath) 😱
Join us this Sunday 6th April when we’ll be performing Mozart’s Requiem with the amazing all boys and young male voice Choir of St Philip’s, which includes members of Libera.
No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.
Details: thevauxhallband.com/6th-april-20...
No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.
Details: thevauxhallband.com/6th-april-20...
April 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Join us this Sunday 6th April when we’ll be performing Mozart’s Requiem with the amazing all boys and young male voice Choir of St Philip’s, which includes members of Libera.
No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.
Details: thevauxhallband.com/6th-april-20...
No advance tickets. Please make a donation of your choice after the concert.
Details: thevauxhallband.com/6th-april-20...
Scotch Gavotte from the Overture to Thomas Arne's opera Thomas and Sally.
Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the London Handel Festival.
Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse
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Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the London Handel Festival.
Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse
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March 30, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Scotch Gavotte from the Overture to Thomas Arne's opera Thomas and Sally.
Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the London Handel Festival.
Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Hear us perform this jolly little tune plus other folk-inspired pieces, trio sonatas & traditional folk music at the London Handel Festival.
Tuesday 1st April, 1pm
The Charterhouse
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Join us at our London Handel Festival concert to experience music from 18th-century London’s many pleasure gardens.
🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN
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🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
March 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Join us at our London Handel Festival concert to experience music from 18th-century London’s many pleasure gardens.
🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
🎶 Garden Folk
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
⏰ 13.00
📍 The Charterhouse, London EC1M 6AN
🎟️ thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
We're looking forward to performing Mozart's awe-inspiring Requiem with the amazing St Philip's Choir of men and boys.
📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance ticket booking. There will be a retiring collection towards the costs.
www.thevauxhallband.com
📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance ticket booking. There will be a retiring collection towards the costs.
www.thevauxhallband.com
March 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
We're looking forward to performing Mozart's awe-inspiring Requiem with the amazing St Philip's Choir of men and boys.
📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance ticket booking. There will be a retiring collection towards the costs.
www.thevauxhallband.com
📆 Sunday 6th April 2025
📍 St Philip's Church, London SW16 4NW
⏰ 18.30
🎟️ No advance ticket booking. There will be a retiring collection towards the costs.
www.thevauxhallband.com
Trustee Vacancy: Treasurer
We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
For further info and to apply please visit: thevauxhallband.com/treasurer/
We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
For further info and to apply please visit: thevauxhallband.com/treasurer/
March 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trustee Vacancy: Treasurer
We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
For further info and to apply please visit: thevauxhallband.com/treasurer/
We're seeking an individual with a finance background and an interest in the arts to join The Vauxhall Band's Board of Trustees as Treasurer.
For further info and to apply please visit: thevauxhallband.com/treasurer/
We’re looking forward to performing our Garden Folk concert at the London Handel Festival on the 1st April.
Music by Handel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, James Oswald, Scottish fiddler William Marshall and Irish harper Turlough O’ Carolan.
More info & tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Music by Handel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, James Oswald, Scottish fiddler William Marshall and Irish harper Turlough O’ Carolan.
More info & tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
February 20, 2025 at 9:22 PM
We’re looking forward to performing our Garden Folk concert at the London Handel Festival on the 1st April.
Music by Handel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, James Oswald, Scottish fiddler William Marshall and Irish harper Turlough O’ Carolan.
More info & tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Music by Handel, Thomas Arne, William Boyce, James Oswald, Scottish fiddler William Marshall and Irish harper Turlough O’ Carolan.
More info & tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Join us at the London Handel Festival for our Garden Folk concert which explores the influence of folk music on society music, song and dance from eighteenth-century London’s pleasure gardens.
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
📍 The Charterhouse, London
⏰ 13.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
📍 The Charterhouse, London
⏰ 13.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
January 17, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Join us at the London Handel Festival for our Garden Folk concert which explores the influence of folk music on society music, song and dance from eighteenth-century London’s pleasure gardens.
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
📍 The Charterhouse, London
⏰ 13.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
📆 Tuesday 1st April 2025
📍 The Charterhouse, London
⏰ 13.00
🎟️ Tickets: thevauxhallband.com/1st-april-20...
Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who made 2024 so amazing. Looking forward to some great projects in 2025!
www.thevauxhallband.com
www.thevauxhallband.com
January 2, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Happy New Year! Thank you to everyone who made 2024 so amazing. Looking forward to some great projects in 2025!
www.thevauxhallband.com
www.thevauxhallband.com