Midsummer Music

   Chelsea   

About   Chelsea  where our live musicians perform

   Covering Party Bands, String Quartets, Barn Dance / Ceilidh and Jazz   

Towns, cities and regions, such as   Chelsea  have an influence on the style of music, whether it is the 'English Countryside' feel of Vaughan Williams, the strength of Elgar's Victorian Malvern, or the skirl of Northumbrian Pipe tune.

About  Chelsea   

This small part of London, a slender triangle of land sandwiched between the river Thames and the borough of Kensington, can claim more fame to an acre than almost any other, brimming with notable residents throughout six centuries. So how did it all begin? Like much of London's history, with the river. As the City and Westminster became crowded with the mansion of the rich and the hovels of the poor, so London extended westwards along the Thames. In so doing, it enveloped the modest hamlet of Chelsea. Chelsea originated as a Saxon settlement, and although the origins of the name Chelsea are uncertain, one theory is that the name comes from an old Anglo-Saxon word for gravel bank and as Chelsea lies on gravel this does seem plausible. Chelsea first appears in an eighth century charter but Kensington and Chelsea both show up in the Domesday Book (1086). Chelsea had strong links with royalty. Henry VIII acquired the manor of Chelsea in 1536 and the future Queen Elizabeth I was a resident there for a time.James I founded a theological college on a site later to be occupied by The Royal Hospital. Founded by Charles II for the care of permanently disabled soldiers, the Hospital is still there today and its uniformed residents have become known worldwide as the Chelsea Pensioners.

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