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

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!

Good Pennyworths Quartet

Catch us on the road June 19-27, 2010! We’ll be touring our most ambitious concert to date – “Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth” – traveling from Western New York through Ohio to Michigan. (And yes, that’s the final title.)

Dates so far…

Sat, June 19 at 8 pm – Buffalo, NY (Ascension Church, 16 Linwood Ave.)
Sun, June 20 at 2:30 pm – Chautauqua, NY (Hurlbut Mem’l Church, Chautauqua Institute campus)
Mon, June 21 at 7:30 pm – Columbus, OH (Redeemer Lutheran Church, 1555 S. James Rd. off I-70)
Tue, June 22 – Detroit Area, MI
Wed, June 23 at 7 pm – Grand Rapids, MI (MAJIC Concert Series Fundraiser, Bethlehem Lutheran Church, 250 Commerce Ave SW)
Thu, June 24 at 7 pm – Ann Arbor, MI (Ann Arbor Downtown Library, 343 S. Fifth Avenue)
Fri, June 25 at 7 pm – Toledo, OH (St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 428 N. Erie Street)
Sat, June 26 at 7:30 pm – Port Clinton, OH (Firelands Presbyterian Church, 2626 East Harbor Rd.)
Sun, June 27 at 3:30 pm – Cleveland, OH (Lute Society of America Concert Series, Harkness Chapel, Case Western Reserve U.)

Please join us if you live nearby. If you don’t, we’d love it if you would pass the word along to friends and family who do. Full concert details are posted on the “Dates” page of the site.

Rehearsals are going well for our new concert, and we’re thrilled to be working with director and Shakespeare Geek Extraordinaire Kate Harte-DeCoux on the staging. Kate did a phenomenal job of choosing the Shakespeare dialog for the show, which thematically connects one song to the next. Kate is the Artistic Director of Mortal Folly Theatre. We’re also thrilled to be working with tenor Christopher Preston Thompson, a talented singer/actor with Shakespeare credits in both opera and theater, who is starting to move into the Early Music genre. For more info on this concert, go to the “Dates” page.

Save the Date! We will be performing our new concert of songs from Shakespeare at 3:30pm, Saturday, March 27 at Advent Lutheran Church, 2504 Broadway at W93rd Street, Manhattan. Suggested donation – $20; $10 students and senior citizens. Keep your eyes on this space — we hope to announce an additional date soon.

William Shakespeare’s plays feature many songs; some he commissioned specially for his plays, others he “appropriated” from other sources and adapted the lyrics for dramatic purposes, and some were simply popular songs of the period which he included merely to cover costume changes or to please his audience. We’ve taken these songs, using the original tunes whenever possible, and woven them together using Shakespeare’s own words into a tale about fools, lovers and the ups and downs of these “giddy-paced times.” Stage Direction by Katherine Harte-DeCoux (Artistic Director, Mortal Folly Theatre). Featuring Garald Farnham, Erika Lloyd, Alane Marco and guest artist Christopher Preston Thompson.

We will be performing “Love! Lust! Longing… Loss” at the Hastings-on-Hudson Public Library for Valentine’s Day, Sunday, February 14, 2010 at 2pm. 7 Maple Ave., Hastings-on-Hudson, New York 10706 | (914) 478-3307

www.hastingslibrary.org

Good Pennyworths will be among the featured artists at the Gotham Early Music Scene’s sampler concert on Sunday, January 10th, presented to attendees of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters’ Annual Conference and open to the general public. We’ll be doing a 30 minute set at 9pm. Other Early Music groups and soloists will be performing as well — a great opportunity to see a smorgasbord of Early Music styles and instruments.  At Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in the chapel.

In addition, we’ll be doing a 20 minute set in a showcase  at the APAP Conference itself (New York Hilton) on Saturday, January 9th at 8:35pm.

Save the Date! On Saturday, Dec. 19, 2009 at 4:30pm, we’ll be performing “A Pennyworth of Christmas” — a collection of Medieval wassail songs, carols from the 14th – 19th centuries, and modern favorites given a Renaissance twist — at Advent Lutheran Church. Corner of West 93rd St and Broadway in Manhattan.

Take an hour out of your frantic shopping to discover some little-known gems, hear new takes on familiar carols, sit and reflect, even find a little  unexpected meaning in the stories behind the music. Suggested Donation $20, $10 for students and seniors.

Many of our NYC fans have told us that this concert is their favorite so far. “It really touched me. I found myself with tears in my eyes at several points,” said friend L.C.