Last year we took in a Christmas concert at the Basilique Saint Bonaventure.
This year it sold out very quickly so we tried something diffferent – a Neapolitan Christmas at L’Hostel Dieu.
It was a lovely setting for some pre-Christmas music.
Featuring the soprano Heather Newhouse and the Mandolin player Vincent Beer-Demander (I bet he likes a drink) it was an amazing evening of Christmas music, vigorous tarentellas, unusual instruments and fun.
The audience gave the musicians and choir an extended ovation at the end so we were treated to an encore.
I was hoping Beer-Demander might give us a bit of Maggie May but no such luck.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 