Unmeasured Chamber Concerts 2026
A monthly chamber series of internationally acclaimed musicians, curated by period-instrument specialists Matthew Wadsworth (lute) and Kate Bennett Wadsworth (cello/viol). Concerts are an hour long and take place in the beautiful acoustics of the Octagon Chapel, designed in 1753 by Thomas Ivory, on the first Friday of the month.
Tempers and Temperaments
Friday 2 October at 7pm
Nathaniel Mander, harpsichord
Kate Bennett Wadsworth, cello
Cello Sonatas by Marcello, Boismortier, and Telemann with selections from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier
Tickets:
General admission £20.00 (+ £1.68 booking fee) Your ticket includes a glass of wine.
Under 18s FREE (Your ticket includes a glass of apple juice).
Come With Us £80.00 (+ £6.72 booking fee) Admits 5. Come in a group of 5 and pay for only 4 tickets (you still get the free drink)
Buy tickets in advance here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/unmeasured
Cover Story by Blondel
Monday 28 September at 6.30pm
Emily Baines — Lizzie Gutteridge — Belinda Paul
shawms, recorders & bagpipes
Cover Story tracks connections between people, places, texts and music. It follows the evolution of popular late medieval melodies across Europe as they are copied, rearranged and repurposed over years, and even decades.
Catchy dances and lyrical chansons, ingenious rounds and dazzling divisions by Machaut, Dufay, Bedyngham, Binchois, and many unnamed masters.
Tickets: £16 / £12 (under 12s free) Available online https://www.richmond-park-reeds.com/collections/tickets/products/cover-story-september-norwich
Clare Summerskill presents:
Why God Created Lesbians
Saturday 10 October at 7.30pm
In her brand-new one-woman show, Clare Summerskill attempts to explain the point of the perplexing sexual minority to which she belongs, asking why lesbians exist? Is it to ease the pressure on cat rescue centres? Is it to ensure that Shibden Hall remains a viable tourist attraction? Or is it to write one-woman comedy shows featuring songs, standup and storytelling? After decades of field research, she thinks she has the answer.
Expect silliness, satire and self-deprecation from crowd-pleaser Clare Summerskill as she hits the road with her funniest show yet. Clare will share the previously unheard story of the lesbian squirrel on the Ark, forced to take up a complaint about compulsory heterosexuality with Noah himself; and she will finally uncover the Almighty’s real opinion about women-loving-women.
Tickets: £15 available here : https://www.outsavvy.com/event/38106/clare-summerskill-presents-why-god-created-lesbians
Octagon Unitarian Chapel 