IF you think the novelist Emily Bronte is something to sing about, a performance at Worcester's Huntingdon Hall will be right up your street.

The Unthanks are inviting an audience to experience "the darkly passionate world of Emily Brontë, with a song cycle bearing all the quiet beauty for which they are known and loved". Commissioned to mark Brontë’s 200th birthday, and using her original cabinet piano to write on, Yorkshire born Unthanks composer Adrian McNally has turned ten of her poems into song, performed with band mates Rachel and Becky Unthank and recorded in the parsonage in Haworth where Emily lived and worked.

The spokesman added: "Captured and released as Part 3 of Lines - a trilogy of records inspired by female writers across time - this live performance of The Emily Brontë Song Cycle will also feature songs from the other records that make up Lines, promising an atmospheric evening, and, at its heart, a unique collaboration between a literary great and one of the most innovative and critically acclaimed bands working today.

"The Unthanks make Art Folk with an approach to storytelling that makes easy bedfellows of polar opposites such as starch traditionalism and sonic adventure, glacial minimalism and heartbreaking empathy, earning them an army of notable fellow artists and storytellers, including Mackenzie Crook, Maxine Peake, Nick Hornby, Martin Freeman, Elvis Costello, Robert Wyatt, Rosanne Cash, Dawn French, Adrian Edmondson, Stephen Mangan and members of Portishead and Radiohead."

They will be supported by The Bookshop Band, described as "the offspring of an artistic love-affair between a duo of English folk singer-songwriters and a multi-award-winning independent bookshop in the UK, Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights".

The date for the diary will be Halloween, October 31. They

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