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

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

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 [...]

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Tags: Early Music, Good Pennyworths, John Dowland, Lute Songs, Music, Renaissance Music, Shakespeare, Upcoming Concert, vocal ensemble, Vocal Quartet

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

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Tags: Early Music, John Dowland, Lute Songs, Renaissance Music, Upcoming Concert, vocal ensemble

Our new album “Love! Lust! Longing… Loss – An Elizabethan Romp” is now available! Just in time for Holiday gift giving. You may download it right now for $9.99 at www.DigStation.com/TheGoodPennyworths.  (We like DigStation — we keep 100% of the proceeds, which is very helpful for a not-for-profit organization like ours!) The CD features ballads and lute [...]

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