Borders Heritage Festival - Illuminating the Past - Melrose Abbey

A unique performance of medieval and contemporary music inspired by the Hawick Missal Fragment, which interprets and reflects the buildings and sites where they are performed, using the theme of the 2017 Borders Heritage Festival,  Borders - Where People Place and Myth Meet

An evening choral performance by the Scottish Vocal Ensemble conducted by their director, Mark Hindley. The programme will include the Fragments from the Hawick Missal which were originally performed in 2013 and medieval music by Robert Carver, contrasted with two commissions of modern music composed in response to the missal.

Local schools will be invited to create lanterns working with a creative artist, themed around the site, its history and the music and will participate in the event, creating an atmosphere of flickering light at Melrose Abbey  -

This event will reprise elements of the highly-regarded work done by a partnership between English Heritage, Creative Scotland and the Scottish Borders Archive Centre and Heritage

Date: Friday 29 September
Venue: Melrose Abbey, Melrose
Time: 6.30pm
​Price: Adults £8.50, Under 18s £5