The 36th Runnymede Pop Festival

The 36th Runnymede Pop Festival

Australia’s oldest and most famous early music group The Renaissance Players directed by its founder and international doyen of early music, Associate Professor Winsome Evans BEM OAM, presents the 36th Runnymede Pop Festival, a new 2014 program of medieval European music and poetry.  The line-up for this concert series includes singers Jessica O’Donoghue and Mitchell…

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…