Benjamin Bagby
Beowulf
Singer, harpist and born storyteller Benjamin Bagby will enchant you from the very first note of the mediaeval story Beowulf. This Old English heroic poem is the earliest example of a European epic written in the vernacular. Bagby accompanies himself on a six-stringed Anglo-Saxon harp. The sound evokes the different atmospheres of the story with great finesse. He has taken this production around the world on a highly successful tour. “Bagby’s imaginative re-creation of the Anglo-Saxon epic poem … is a double tour de force of scholarly excavation and artistic dynamism”, wrote the San Francisco Chronicle.