COSTUME DRAMA: Medieval musicians Rick and Helen Heavisides, from Boroughbridge, perform at Helmsley Castle
Music from the Middle Ages again drifted over Helmsley Castle when a costumed duo called Hautbois performed there.
The duo played music of the Normans and Angevins - better known as the Plantagenets - at the English Heritage site over the weekend.
Hautbois - pronounced hortboys in the Middle Ages and the old word for the oboe - is made up of husband and wife Rick and Helen Heavisides, of Langthorpe, Boroughbridge.
They dressed as Benedictine monks to perform 'meditative monastic music'.
Rick said: "The Angevins are the Plantagenets, whose empire of Anjou took on ownership of England from the empire of the Normans."
He said the music performed at Helmsley Castle over the weekend all dated from the period between the Norman Conquest and the Crusades.
"We perform anything from 1066 right up to the First World War," Rick said. "Every year we go around English Heritage sites and do different periods in history."
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