For the New York City version of the concert, Garald worked with tenor Christopher Preston-Thompson and soprano Tiffany Bizup once again, joined by lovely mezzo Julia Mintzer. This set of talents brought new musical opportunities to the repertoire. Remember in our Boston Early Music Festival post, we told you that Christopher had taken an interest [...]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Christopher Preston Thompson, Early Music, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Good Pennyworths Holiday concert, Julia Mintzer, Renaissance Music, Tiffany Bizup, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

When one door closes, another opens! This past fall, instead of touring our Shakespeare concert to DC, Virginia and Maryland in November, as we’d planned, Garald found himself rehearsing two different versions of our annual celebration of carols and wassail songs, A Pennyworth of Christmas, with two different sets of singers — one for a [...]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Early Music, Erika Buchholz, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths Holiday concert, Kirsten Kane, Lute Songs, Medieval carols, Renaissance Music, The Good Pennyworths, Tim Joyce, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

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 [...]

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Tags: Boston Early Music Festival, Early Music, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Good Pennyworths Tour, Lute Songs, New York NY, Renaissance Music, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

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 [...]

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Tags: Blow thou winter wind, Concert, Early Music, Full Fathom Five, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Shakespeare, True Love Never Does Run Smooth, vocal ensemble

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

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Tags: Christopher Preston Thompson, Early Music, Elizabethan, Erika Lloyd, Garald Farnham, radio, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare, Tiffany Bizup, University of Connecticut

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

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Tags: Boston, Christopher Preston Thompson, Concert, Early Music, Elizabethan, Erika Lloyd, Festival, Fringe, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Good Pennyworths Tour, John Dowland, Lute, performance, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare, show new york, Tiffany Bizup, Vocal Quartet

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!

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Tags: Concert, Early Music, Erika Lloyd, Garald Farnham, John Dowland, John Hager, Robert Johnson, Shakespeare, The Good Pennyworths, Thomas Campion, Tiffany Bizup