The Renaissance Players: ‘British Beasts, Birds and Bards’

The Renaissance Players: ‘British Beasts, Birds and Bards’

  Australia’s premier and longest-running early music ensemble, The Renaissance Players will perform British Beasts, Birds and Bards –  a concert of English traditional and folk music from the 16th century to the 1970s – with a 20th century twist!  A touch of mediæval song (ornamented with flourishes from later times) and music by the young, lusty King…

The 35th Annual Runnymede Pop Festival

The 35th Annual Runnymede Pop Festival

The Renaissance Players directed by Winsome Evans presents the 35th Runnymede Pop Festival in October 2013.  The plucked, blown, bowed, keyboard and percussion instruments will include harp, psaltery, mandora, gittern, ud, diwan saz, sinfonye, rebecs, vielles, shawms, lur, mute cornett, gemshorns, whistles, portative organ, tapans, dairehs, darabukka, castanets, tambourines, zils and handbells. After many months preparing…