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

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

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Tags: Concert, Early Music America, Elizabethan, Good Pennyworths, John Dowland, New York, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare, Vocal Quartet

Our first YouTube video! This is Set 6 – These Most Brisk and Giddy-Paced Times (aka the silly set) from our concert “Songs from Shakespeare” at the LSA Lute Festival in June 2010. Featuring Garald Farnham, Erika Lloyd, Alane Marco and Christopher Preston-Thompson. Stage Direction and Text Adaptation by Katherine Harte-DeCoux from a concept by […]

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Tags: concert video, Early Music, Elizabethan, Good Pennyworths Tour, Jog on, Lute Society of America, Lute Songs, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare songs, Under the Greenwood Tree, YouTube video

Announcing our third annual holiday concert! For those who have attended in the past, fully three quarters of the repertoire will be new selections! We are focusing this year mainly on material from 1400-1700s: unearthly Medieval chant, lesser-known Renaissance carols, unusual wassail songs, plus a few favorite 18th-19th century carols — singing from transcriptions of […]

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Tags: Christmas carols, Christmas concert, Early Music, Medieval music, New York City, Renaissance Music

In her other life, Erika Lloyd is lead singer and main songwriter for the indie rock/alt jazz band Little Grey Girlfriend. The Grammy award-winning choral ensemble, Chanticleer, is going to be performing Erika’s song “Cells Planets” on their world tour! And the NYTimes wrote about it! (10th paragraph down) Congratulations, Erika! Here’s a link to the […]

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Tags: Cells Planets, Chanticleer, Early Music, Erika Lloyd, Good Pennyworths, Little Grey Girlfriend, New York NY, Renaissance Music, vocal ensemble

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, […]

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Tags: Chamber Music, Early Music, Good Pennyworths Tour, Lute Songs, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare, Upcoming Concert, vocal ensemble