For  our April 17th show, we  are performing with Tiffany Bizup in our sassy mezzo role, and John Hager as our tenacious tenor.  It’s always refreshing and surprising to have new perspectives on previously performed material, in this case our program, Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth. I’m looking read more…

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!

The quartet will appear once again in the Gotham Early Music Scene’s annual showcase concert, held on Sunday evening, January 9, 2011 in conjunction with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) conference. It’s open to the public! Starts at 7pm. Our set is at 9pm. Click here for all the details!

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 the original source material whenever available. Some feature arrangements of by our Artistic Director, Garald Farnham, and by Aaron Wunsch, noted Juilliard pianist and Minister of Music at Advent Lutheran Church. Please join your favorite Renaissance quartet in celebrating an ‘Early Christmas’!

Related show

• Artist: Good Pennyworths Quartet
• Tour: A Pennyworth of Christmas 2010
• Date: Saturday, December 18th 2010
• City: Good Pennyworths Quartet in New York
• Venue: Advent Lutheran Church
• Country: US
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Ian Capps, host of Hawaii Public Radio’s The Early Muse, featured three of our songs in his May 9, 2010 show titled “Popular Music in 17th Century England” — ‘It was a lover and his lass,’ ‘Heigh ho! for a husband,’ and ‘Bugle Britches.’  Broadcast transcript follows after the break…

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Tenor Christopher Preston Thompson, who has joined us for our Shakespeare concert, sang the role of the Artist in David Chesky’s new opera, “The Pig, The Farmer and the Artist” in the NYC Fringe Festival. The show won a 2010 Fringe Fest Excellence Award for Best Music and Lyrics and we’re betting it gets picked up for a longer run. Is The Pig… the next Urinetown? Producers were scrambling for tickets on closing night!

Congrats, Christopher! Fabulous work.

Our recording of the John Dowland song ‘Come Again’ was aired on WBAI’s music show Cosmik Debris on Sunday, August 15th! Sending out a big thank you to WBAI host Mark Laiosa for checking us out on the Oasis sampler CD.

Well, we’re back from the tour now and planning for upcoming seasons. We’d like to thank all of our host venues and homestay families. Thank you for the beds, the wonderful food, the local impromptu neighborhood tours and parties. Your generosity and graciousness made our visits to your communities very special.

Our tour has already garnered us one new booking and invitations to return everywhere we played. At the Lute Society seminar, many people told us after  our performance to  “keep going with this — you’ve got something really special here.” One grad student told us “I’ve been studying lute songs for two years and I’m so excited to see this! You’ve expanded my view of what lute song performance can be.” If you attended one of our concerts and would like to give us feedback, please send us an email via the Contact page.

As for future plans, we’re contacting local and regional presenters to continue to spread “the Shakespeare” as far and wide as possible. We’ll also be adding music to our annual holiday program and starting work on a new program of traditional ballads and folk songs.