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About Us
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. AcknowledgementsPavane Early Music Consort is supported by:
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