NEWS: Richard Durrant’s Candlelit Christmas Tour arrives at Theatr Clwyd, Mold

Richard Durrant’s Candlelit Christmas Tour arrives at Theatr Clwyd

Having performed at the venue annually since 2010 (with the exception of last year’s online concert) Richard Durrant has become a firm favourite amongst Theatr Clwyd audiences, and this year will be no exception.

With Christmas songs and wintry folk music, traditional carols and solo guitar music this will be a seasonal, musical feast and Richard's first live tour for nearly two years. Richard will be joined by his sons Django and Felix, legendary musician Brian Gulland and much loved Christmas regular Amy Kakoura.

Amy and Richard have been exploring midwinter together for nearly a decade, sharing their deep love of the season’s music. Amy's Greek/Irish roots evoke medieval chant, folk & soulful jazz lending a unique depth to this collaboration. Just this month Amy 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, once a Canterbury Chorister, has joined the tour this year. Brian is a multi-instrumentalist and composer. Most notably Brian is a founder member of legendary mediaeval prog rock band Gryphon. Brian and Richard have become close musical friends with a shared love of early music and all things acoustic.

Richard’s oldest son 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.

Richard said ahead of the visit:

 

Our trip to Theatr Clwyd this year is made more special by being so close to the Solstice. The show draws on so many elements of the midwinter, both ancient and modern, and we savour the chance of sharing this with the audience in the main house at just the right moment in those final days of advent.

 

Richard Durrant’s Candlelit Christmas Concert will be performed at Theatr Clwyd on Monday 20 December at 7:30pm. Tickets are from £18. Booking available at Theatr Clwyd’s website www.theatrclwyd.com or by calling 01352 344101.