Goodness! We didn’t mean to leave you hanging. We’ve been up to a lot since June 2011! It’s been a year of changes, with new faces joining our roster of singers while familiar faces took time off to pursue professional goals of their own. (See our About page for info on some of the singers we’ve worked with this past year.) With both Alane Marco and Erika Lloyd taking leave, our web presence has been fairly quiet of late. But we’re happy to announce that mezzo Kirsten Kane will be picking up the blogging mantle, and Alane Marco will once again help us out behind the scenes with occasional writing, marketing and design work.

Let’s bring you up to date! Off we go to Boston to fill you in on the Good Pennyworths’ second appearance at the Boston Early Music Festival… We know you’re dying to hear how it went! [More after the break...]
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Set 5 – “Down! Thou Climbing Sorrow” The Lute Society of America’s video excerpted from our presentation of Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth at the June 2010 Lute Festival at Case Western Reserve University. Featuring Garald Farnham, Alane Marco, Christopher Preston Thompson, Erika Lloyd. Stage direction and text adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux. Songs: “Take, o take those lips away” (Measure for Measure); “Blow, blow thou winter wind” (As You Like It); “And will he not come again” (Hamlet); “Full fathom five” (Tempest); “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” (Cymbeline)

We will be doing an interview and a bit of singing on University of Connecticut Radio this afternoon. It’s a live broadcast, but you can listen to it on their online stream any time!  www.whus.org

The Good Pennyworths will be performing “Songs from Shakespeare – True Love Never Did Run Smooth”

Friday June 17 at 1:30p
Old South Church, Gordon Chapel
645 Boylston St ◆ Boston, MA

As part of the Boston Early Music Fringe Festival!

For more info visit our Dates Page

For  our April 17th show, we  are performing with Tiffany Bizup in our sassy mezzo role, and John Hager as our tenacious tenor.  It’s always refreshing and surprising to have new perspectives on previously performed material, in this case our program, Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth. I’m looking read more…

Erika Lloyd, Soprano
Tiffany Bizup, Soprano II
Christopher Preston Thompson, Tenor
Garald Farnham, Baritone and Lute

More information about these performances on our Dates page ~ Hope you can join us!

Ariela Farnham and Nancy D’Antonio, daughter and wife of Garald Farnham, created a wonderful video collage set to our performance of “Ther Is No Rose of Such Virtue.” This was recorded live on December 18, 2010, as part of our “A Pennyworth of Christmas” Concert at Advent Lutheran Church NY, NY. Featuring Erika Lloyd (soprano), Alane Marco (mezzo) and Christopher Preston Thompson (tenor). Enjoy!

The quartet will appear once again in the Gotham Early Music Scene’s annual showcase concert, held on Sunday evening, January 9, 2011 in conjunction with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference. It’s open to the public! Starts at 7pm. Our set is at 9pm. Click here for all the details!