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Sam Sweeney’s Fiddle – Made in the Great War

Tue 16th September 2014 7:30 pm

Back in 2008, Sam Sweeney, the fiddle player with contemporary folk band Bellowhead, found a violin in a shop in Oxford. Although it looked new, after he’d bought it, he found a label inside dating it back to 1915 and indicating it had belonged to a Richard S Howard. Further investigation revealed that Richard had signed up in 1916 to the army at the age of 35 but was killed a year later during the battle of Messines in West Flanders. The violin, which he’d been in the process of making himself, was left unfinished and kept by his daughter Rose. It was only after her death, when the incomplete instrument was sold at auction, that it was finally completed and then acquired by Sam. The history of the fiddle inspired Sam to create a multimedia performance that tells its 100-year story, to mark the centenary of the war that claimed its maker. Naturally, he will be playing the actual fiddle itself.

Tickets cost £15 or £13.50 for concessions. To book, call 01733 207 239.

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