The Renaissance Players Record Pilgrimage to Montserrat

The Renaissance Players Record Pilgrimage to Montserrat

  The Renaissance Players’ latest double CD, Pilgrimage to Montserrat, is a welcome opportunity for 21st century listeners to hear a richly varied, yet stylistically true reconstruction of the songs that medieval pilgrims may have played to each other en route to discover the miracles of Montserrat.  Pilgrimage to Montserrat, music from the Iberian Peninsula, brings Winsome…

From The Renaissance Players: Gazpacho Andaluz – A Feast Of Early Music, Song, Dance And Poetry

From The Renaissance Players: Gazpacho Andaluz – A Feast Of Early Music, Song, Dance And Poetry

The Renaissance Players directed by Prof Winsome Evans OAM presents Gaspacho Andaluz, its 3rd concert series for 2014. Based at The University of Sydney and performing continuously since 1967, The Renaissance Players are Australia’s oldest early music group,  This musical gazpacho encompasses the colours of the performing traditions from the mediaeval court of Alfonso the Wise and from the famous…

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…