{"id":14129,"date":"2013-09-16T12:22:32","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T02:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=14129"},"modified":"2013-09-16T12:22:32","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T02:22:32","slug":"the-35th-annual-runnymede-pop-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=14129","title":{"rendered":"The 35th Annual Runnymede Pop Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14140\" alt=\"Runnymede\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Runnymede-171x240.jpg\" width=\"171\" height=\"240\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">The Renaissance Players directed by Winsome Evans presents the\u00a035<sup>th<\/sup> Runnymede Pop Festival in October 2013.<b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>After many months preparing and then completing the recording, mastering and remastering of 6 new CDs, followed by a performance in Sydney\u2019s Greek Folk Festival, The Renaissance Players\u00a0have pleasure in presenting This concert series which has established itself as the longest running, regular festival of medi\u00e6val music, poetry and mime in Australia. These Festivals continue to reinforce The Renaissance Players\u2019 long-standing association with Sydney University and its Great Hall\u00a0 the venue\u00a0in which they presented their first concert in September, 1966.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>1<sup>st<\/sup> Runnymede Pop Festival<\/i> was celebrated in 1973 in the Great Hall with eminent performers such as Prof. Frederick May, Graham Pushee, Lyndon Terracini, Michael Atherton, Barbara Stackpool, Wayne Richmond, Jonathan Rubin and Winsome Evans.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_14141\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14141\" style=\"width: 325px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14141\" alt=\"Singers Jenny Duck-Chong and Nicole Thomson\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Jenny+Nicole-DSC_1853-325x216.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"216\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-14141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Singers Jenny Duck-Chong and Nicole Thomson<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Singers: Nicole Thomson, Jenny Duck-Chong, Mara Kiek, Susie Bishop<\/p>\n<p>Multi-instrumentalists: Winsome Evans, Andrew Lambkin, Llew Kiek, James Wannan<\/p>\n<p>Poetry Reader: Geoff Sirmai; Miming Clown: Erasmus<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Suggested donation $35<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Tickets: (02) 4751 4910; 0414 716 968, or at door<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/b><b><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Renaissance Players directed by Winsome Evans presents the\u00a035th Runnymede Pop Festival in October 2013.\u00a0 The plucked, blown, bowed, keyboard and percussion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-14129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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