Now
well into our second decade of music making, Pavane Early Music Consort
evolved from an adult education class started in late 1991
to explore music from the 16th and 17th centuries and in 1992 it became
an independent group and began making public appearances. With the
help of funding from various bodies we purchased a wide variety of
authentic medieval and renaissance period instruments - renaissance
recorders, crumhorns, rauschpfeifs, percussion, shawms, curtals,
lutes, cittern, theorbo, oud, gemshorns, viols, virginals, rebecs,
fiddles,
hurdy-gurdy... as well as costumes, drapes and medieval tents.
We
are constantly in demand at indoor and outdoor venues of every kind,
from barns and battlefields to castles and stately homes. We
are minstrels at historic sites for CADW and others, we provide musical
atmosphere at weddings, Elizabethan banquets and medieval fayres. We
have appeared in a TV series made by Wild Dream Films for Channel
4 about the English Civil War, arranged workshops for children and
danced
ceilidhs for the more energetic. Occasionally we even find time for
the odd concert!
Our
repertoire, which we are constantly developing, consists of a broad
range of instrumental music and song from early medieval through
Tudor and Elizabethan periods to the Restoration (ie from about 1100
to 1650). Our style varies from lively and raucous to courtly and domestic.
Acknowledgements
Pavane Early Music Consort is supported by:
Building the Arts Lottery Grant (from The Arts Council of Wales)
Now
well into our second decade of music making, Pavane Early Music Consort
evolved from an adult education class started in late 1991
to explore music from the 16th and 17th centuries and in 1992 it became
an independent group and began making public appearances. With the
help of funding from various bodies we purchased a wide variety of
authentic medieval and renaissance period instruments - renaissance
recorders, crumhorns, rauschpfeifs, percussion, shawms, curtals,
lutes, cittern, theorbo, oud, gemshorns, viols, virginals, rebecs,
fiddles,
hurdy-gurdy... as well as costumes, drapes and medieval tents.
We
are constantly in demand at indoor and outdoor venues of every kind,
from barns and battlefields to castles and stately homes. We
are minstrels at historic sites for CADW and others, we provide musical
atmosphere at weddings, Elizabethan banquets and medieval fayres. We
have appeared in a TV series made by Wild Dream Films for Channel
4 about the English Civil War, arranged workshops for children and
danced
ceilidhs for the more energetic. Occasionally we even find time for
the odd concert!
Our
repertoire, which we are constantly developing, consists of a broad
range of instrumental music and song from early medieval through
Tudor and Elizabethan periods to the Restoration (ie from about 1100
to 1650). Our style varies from lively and raucous to courtly and domestic.