Midsummer Music

   Waltham Forest   

About   Waltham Forest  where our live musicians perform

   Classical (e.g. String Quartets), Pop (e.g. Party Bands), Jazz (e.g. Jazz Quartets), Folk (e.g. Ceilidh and Barn Dance Bands   

Towns, cities and regions, such as   Waltham Forest  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  Waltham Forest   

The London Borough of Waltham Forest was formed in 1965 through the amalgamation of Leyton, Walthamstow and Chingford local authorities. The area is rich in history, with the borough's principal towns dating back at least to the Anglo-Saxon period. Some of the earliest settlements consisted of primitive pile dwellings, reflected in Chingford's Saxon name, Caegingford, or 'ford of the dwellers by the stumps'. Chingford Plain is the site of a lookout commissioned by Henry VIII in order to observe the royal hunt in Epping Forest, a building which still stands and is known as Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge. The original village of Walthamstow - recorded as Wacoumstou - is mentioned in the Doomsday Book of 1086, and remains today as a conservation area in the town which evolved around it.

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