

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: William Drakett: Songs of Travel
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Event Description**: Join baritone William Drakett and pianist Benjamin Mead for an evening of song in the beautiful setting of Wells Cathedral‘s North Transept. At the heart of the programme is Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Songs of Travel, the beloved song cycle setting the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. Charting the wanderings of a solitary traveller through the English countryside, these songs explore themes of freedom, longing, nature, and mortality.

Alongside Vaughan Williams’ masterpiece, the programme includes American Folk Song arrangements by contemporary American composer Steven Mark Kohn. Inspired by Copland‘s folk song settings, Kohn embarked on discovering lesser-known folk songs from the American tradition and arranged them combining classical, musical theatre, popular, and folk music styles. Kohn writes “What attracted me to these songs were the stories they told. They are mini-dramas. Something is happening in each one of them. Someone is traveling, working, or suffering. Their messages are universal to the human experience. They still resonate.”
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/wells/william-drakett-songs-of-travel/200029808833341
- **Event Categories**: Art, Theatre, Entertainment, performances, Music, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 12

## Ticket Details

- **Ticket URL**: https://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/whats-on?event=114298295&utm_source=AllEvents.in&utm_medium=event-discovery-platform&utm_campaign=wells-events

## Event venue details

- **city**: Wells
- **state**: EN
- **country**: United Kingdom
- **location**: Wells Cathedral, BA5 2UE Wells, United Kingdom
- **lat**: 51.2106
- **long**: -2.64551
- **full address**: Wells Cathedral, BA5 2UE Wells, United Kingdom, Wells, United Kingdom

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Wells Cathedral (https://allevents.in/org/wells-cathedral/11867494)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 25 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm (+01:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wells Cathedral, BA5 2UE Wells, United Kingdom, Wells, United Kingdom
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Wells Cathedral
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** Art, Theatre, Entertainment, performances, Music, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about William Drakett: Songs of Travel ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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