WHAT'S ON
Aallotar: Women's voices in Finnish acapella
Sun 1 June, 2pm to 4pm
Creative Centre, York St John University
Free tickets: yorksj.ac.uk/events/
NEXT PERFORMANCE
In our musical talk Allotar (translation: ‘spirit of the waves’ or ‘water nymph’), Enkelit (translation: ‘angels’) will discuss the important role of women’s voices in Lönnrot's collection of these folk poems, as well as examining the poems’ content and singing some of the songs, tracing those waves to modern times. Finnish women composers continue to be inspired by these epic but everyday poems, giving women such as those in Enkelit the opportunity to share songs of hope, defiance, despair and happiness that delve deeply into the fullness of women’s lived experiences. This then, despite the linguistic challenges, allows women singers of this repertoire the unusual chance to bring their whole selves, body, mind and voice, to the process of choral singing, in a way that makes waves and reverberates through and beyond the singing group.
Previous concerts
Wild Beasts and Angels
1st October 2023
Enkelit performed with Coracle
Summer sing
12th June 2022
A relaxed post-covid performace
Cemetery Chapel
2nd July 2023
Enkelit return York Cemetery Chapel
2024
March – York St John University Chapel, International Women’s Day event with workshop
2023
October – Unitarian Chapel, York (with Coracle)
July – Cemetery Chapel, York
2022
June – Cemetery Chapel, York
2021
December – mini concert in a front garden
March onwards – rehearsals resumed outside
2020
Covid-19 hiatus
2019
November – York Unitarian Chapel
October – Morpeth Methodist Church
June - Rowntree Park, York
2018
October – St Matthew's Rastrick, Brighouse Arts Festival
June – United Reform Church, Saltaire
May – St Anne’s Church, Ings
2017
July – Buxton Festival (awarded Best Vocal Performance)
June – St Clements Church, York
March – Littlethorpe Women’s Institute
2016
November – John the Baptist Church, Knaresborough
July – Cemetery Chapel, York
May – St Luke’s, York (with Sonus)
2015
May – Bedern Hall, York
February – Narberth (with a workshop the day afterwards)
2014
November – Sage, Gateshead (Enkelit were invited to be one of four choirs to take part in a concert at the Sage, Gateshead, as part of BBC Radio 3’s ‘Free Thinking’ Festival, and broadcast in Radio 3’s ‘The Choir’ programme)
October – Whitby, Musicport Festival
August – York Art Gallery
May – Hebden Bridge, Birchcliffe Centre
2013
August – Canongate Kirk Edinburgh Fringe Festival (4 gigs)
May – Cemetery Chapel, York
2012
October - St Mary’s, Gateshead
June – Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden bridge (with Ensemble Norma)
April – Square Chapel, Halifax
February – National Centre for Early Music, York, Yorvik Viking Festival (with the Martin Simpson Trio)
2011
November – St Mary’s Church, York, Illuminating York Festival (with Cornelia Parker’s installation Thirty Pieces of Silver)
September – Unitarian Chapel, York (with Sicut Sol)
July – recruitment concert and workshop, Clements Hall, York
June – Tampere Choral Festival
May – Settle Parish Church
2010
July – Todmorden Central Methodist Church
2009
Unknown dates – Bedern and York Minster, York
July – Wainsgate Chapel, Hebden Bridge
2008
December - SAGE, Gateshead
November – Fielden Centre, Todmorden
March - Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York
2007
Czech Republic – summer tour
2006
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2005
July – Cemetery Chapel, York (shared with Blossom St Singers)
June – Tampere Choral Festival (awarded 2 silvers by the judges)
2004
March – Penrith - Enkelit’s debut concert, sharing a concert with another one of Richard’s
choirs
2003
June 2003: a flyer was left on seats at Fiori’s concert in York by Richard, who had seen them
perform in Tampere. Enkelit’s first rehearsal happened later this year.