St Peter's Parish News
Thursday 1 January 1970
May Day!
If you were up with the lark on May Day morning, you may have heard our singers performing madrigals from the top of the tower, and down on the churchyard lawn. It’s our annual tradition of greeting the spring at 6am on May Day with madrigals from the tower of St Peter’s. As always, ridiculous floral hats were de rigeur. Madrigals first came to England from Italy in the late 16th century; the new form of popular music caught on, and is now a great English tradition. Many songs are about lovers getting overexcited in the spring, laced with poetic double-entendres, while others tell sad tales of lost love or death, with the odd symbolic reference to Queen Elizabeth I. Thank you to Adrian and Chris for directing the singers up top and down below, and to all who took part. Heartfelt thanks are also due to Carolynne, Penny and Carol for getting up at the crack of dawn to lay on coffee and bacon rolls!
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