Midsummer Music
Southampton
About Southampton where our live musicians perform
Covering Party Bands, String Quartets, Barn Dance / Ceilidh and Jazz
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Towns, cities and regions, such as Southampton 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 Southampton
About 70AD the Romans built a town on a bend in the river Itchen where Bitterne now stands. The Roman town was called Clausentum. The streets were laid out in a grid pattern and they were gravelled. All the buildings were, at first, built of wood but in the 2nd century wealthy people rebuilt their houses in stone. They had panes of glass in the windows, painted murals on the walls and mosaic floors. Of course, poor people could afford none of these things. They lived in wood and plaster huts.
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