Bird Tunes - Miranda Rutter and Rob Harbron
Sat 30 May
|St Mary's Church Guildford
“Bird Tunes is, very simply, utterly beautiful. Nature and music in perfect harmony.” Tradfolk
Time & Location
30 May 2026, 14:00 – 21:40
St Mary's Church Guildford, Quarry St, Guildford GU1 3UA, UK
About the event
Concert 7:30 pm, Bird Tunes Workshop for Musicians 2:00 - 4:20 pm
“Bird Tunes is, very simply, utterly beautiful. Nature and music in perfect harmony.” Tradfolk
Featured on Front Row, BBC Radio 4 and The Breakfast Show BBC Radio 3 (live from Slimbridge Wetlands Centre)
With bird song as its peak in May, we felt it is the perfect time to present Miranda Rutter’s exquisitely crafted Bird Tunes! The beautiful nave at St Mary’s Church will provide the perfect acoustics for her birdsong-inspired compositions. In the afternoon, she and Rob Harbron will be teaching a Bird Tunes workshop for musicians - we think this is going to be rather special!
Concert - 7:30 - 9:30 pm
Fiddle player and composer Miranda Rutter is joined by Rob Harbron on concertina to present Bird Tunes, an exquisite new suite of folk tunes with birdsong at their core. Miranda has crafted every tune…