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Jeremy Barlow: About Jeremy Barlow

Jeremy Barlow MA ARCM ARAM FRSA

After studying at Trinity College Cambridge and the Royal Academy of Music, Jeremy Barlow worked at first chiefly in the theatre as a musical director, flautist and composer, and at the BBC as a radio producer and broadcaster. He then focused increasingly on early music as a performer, playing baroque flute, recorder and harpsichord, directing first the Barlow Baroque Players, and then from 1979 the Broadside Band.

From 1986-1999 he was Music Director at London Contemporary Dance School, and he has also been involved in many projects, seminars and conferences on the links between historical dance and music. He has a special interest in English popular and dance music from the 16^th to 18^th centuries (see other pages of the website), and has worked closely with historical dancers on several of his Broadside Band albums.

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His audiovisual presentations and lectures are much in demand from organisations such as the National Association of Decorative and Fine Art Societies (www.nadfas.org.uk) and U3A (www.u3a.org.uk); he has toured widely in Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand.

Writing on musical topics ranges from the scholarly (including his recently published book The Enraged Musician: Hogarth's Musical Imagery for Ashgate (www.ashgate.com) to the humorous (The Cat & the Fiddle: Images of musical humour from the Middle Ages to modern times, just published by the Bodleian Library, Oxford).