Love is but a Jest: Songs for Lovers and Fools – Although the lute was primarily an instrument that thrived during the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, with imagination our quartet has realized accompaniments for music from later periods.  Using a theme based on minstrelsy and […]

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                  A Pennyworth of Christmas – A Yuletide classic that gets better each year.  In this concert we broaden our usual Renaissance and Elizabethan repertoire to explore a quilt of carols and winter holiday songs.  We make sure to include some ancient and lessor known carols with […]

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    Songs From Shakespeare: True Love Never Did Run Smooth is a concert of Shakespearean proportions! A staged, fully-scripted concert theater piece, Songs from Shakespeare explores universal truths: love’s messes, life’s heartbreaks and the laughter that sees us through. Working from a creative concept framed by Garald Farnham and Alane Marco (ensemble member 2007-2011) and […]

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                  Love! Lust! Longing… Loss – an Elizabethan Romp – In the late 1500s and early 1600s, the lute songs, ballads, theatre songs and pub songs in this program were the “pop music” of their day, a musical language known to all classes of society, from courtiers […]

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