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LUCIE and RODDY SKEAPING'S MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR An introduction to the history of music from its primitive beginnings to the Medieval and Tudor periods For primary school children aged 5 - 12 
'Amusing, stimulating and informative' TIMES EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT LUCIE AND RODDY'S MUSICAL MYSTERY TOUR is that rare combination - a show that is both educational and thoroughly entertaining With stories, costumes, song and dance and lots of joining in, the audience is taken on a lively musical journey back in time. Here they make cavemen sounds, hear minstrel songs and Medieval dances, join Henry VIII's band, help a knight on horseback fight a dragon in an Elizabethan street theatre performance - and even find out what happened when Roddy put his violin in the washing machine! There are over 20 wonderfully named period instruments to see and play like viols, rebecs, lute, crumhorns, recorders, vielle, hurdygurdy and cittern. Plus primitive sounds like stones, rattles and shells; even a 'bum fiddle' - a genuine musical instrument! Lucie and Roddy Skeaping are both classically trained musicians with a background in Music Education, BBC broadcasting, orchestras ensembles and theatre. For the last decade the Musical Mystery Tour has delighted children in more than 400 schools with the generous support of T I M E O U T  |
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RODDY SKEAPING trained at the Royal College of Music
as violinist, later returning to teach the Viola da Gamba. He worked with the Royal
Philharmonic and English Chamber Orchestras and later, at the forefront of the
early music revival, performed with David Munrow's Early Music Consort and
The City Waites before being appointed
Levehulme Research Fellow at the Royal College of Music. He has written a number of scores for National Theartre productions and television and his work with young people includes the Young National Trust Theatre Company and membership of the ILEA string teaching panel.  RAPHAEL , aged 9
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| LUCIE SKEAPING is well known to parents and children as presenter of BBC TV programmes including Playschool, The Music Arcade and her own series for Channel 4 TV Make Music Fun. She Trained at the royal College of Music, making a special study of early music, and is a frequent broadcaster of reviews and features for BBC Radio including her series 'Lucie Skeaping's Early Music'. As a singer, actress and multi-instrumentalist she performs with many ensembles including The City Waites and The Burning Bush, and her many records of early and traditional music sell throughout the world.  CLAIRE SHAW , aged 8 |
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 "Amusing, lively and compulsive" NATIONAL THEATRE EDUCATION "The children sat transfixed . . ." NORWICH FESTIVAL "Lucie and Roddy's Musical Mystery Tour will have you stamping your feet and singing. Don't miss it" BRISTOL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL "The Lady Who Swallowed a Fly gave more children a chance to join in and play some of the instruments" EAST SUSSEX GAZETTE Contact: The Musical Mystery Tour, 19 Patshull Road, London NW5 2JX, England. Telephone: 44 (0) 20 7485 3957 - fax: 44 (0) 20 7267 2957 or by email |