True Love Never Did Run Smooth: Songs From Shakespeare is a concert of Shakespearean proportions! A staged, fully-scripted concert theater piece, True Love Never Did Run Smooth explores universal truths: love’s […]
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Jan
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18
Apr
The past six years has included three concerts of Renaissance songs for two voices and lute: Tudor Tales, Cornucopia and The Sweets of Love that have been performed in NYC […]
19
May
2014-18 Concert Performances Both touching and humorous, Passing By…describes the journeys of a modern day troubadour. This entertainment for the parlor features Renaissance lute songs, songs from Shakespeare’s plays, traditional […]
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Jan
The Sweets of Love – songs for two voices and Renaissance lute – Good Pennyworths share a variety of solos […]
20
Mar
Love is but a Jest: Songs for Lovers and Fools – Although the lute was primarily an instrument that thrived during […]
20
Mar
A Pennyworth of Christmas – A Yuletide classic that gets better each year. In this concert we broaden our usual Renaissance […]
20
Mar
Love! Lust! Longing… Loss – an Elizabethan Romp – In the late 1500s and early 1600s, the lute songs, ballads, theatre […]
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Jan
A Lover and His Lass recording produced in 1989 by Merry Minstrels (now Good Pennyworths)When I created my not-for-profit organization in 1986 to present concerts of Renaissance lute songs, I […]
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Jun
Feature interview for our Early Music in Columbus Concert!
Posted by GoodPennyworths Published in News and InfoChristopher spoke with Columbus, Ohio music columnist Jim Fischer about our new concert, “Love is but a Jest,” which we’re performing this Friday for Early Music in Columbus. Check out […]
Tags: Christopher Preston Thompson, Early Music, Early Music in Columbus, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths, Good Pennyworths Tour, Lute Songs, Vocal Quartet
11
Jun
Lutenist Garald Farnham was interviewed by music critic Robert Plylar for The Observer newspapers in advance of our Chautauqua concert and master class to be given this month. Click here […]
Tags: Chautauqua Institution, Early Music, Garald Farnham, Good Pennyworths Tour, Lute and Voice Master Class, Upcoming Concert, Vocal Quartet
Love! Lust! Longing… Loss
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True Love Never Did Run Smooth
Tudor Tales
Love! Lust! Longing & Loss
The Sweets Of Love
Upcoming Performances
- 02/12/26 Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York, NY at El Barrio’s Artspace P.S. 109
- 02/13/26 Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York, NY at El Barrio’s Artspace P.S. 109
- 02/14/26 Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York, NY at El Barrio’s Artspace P.S. 109
- 02/15/26 Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York, NY at El Barrio’s Artspace P.S. 109
- 02/19/26 Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York, NY at El Barrio’s Artspace P.S. 109
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