Artist Detailed Info: Passamezzo

Passamezzo is an established early music ensemble known for their ability to bring historical events to life through their engaging performances and programming. They specialize in English Tudor and Stuart repertoire.

A group of musicians, singers, actors and dancers, with a love of history, the ensemble delights in all aspects of musical life, from the intimacy of the lute song, to the brash raucousness of the broadside ballad, from the sacred part song, to the profane insanity of bedlamite mad songs. Programmes are carefully researched with music frequently taken from manuscript sources.

They have played in a great variety of venues including the British Museum; the Victoria and Albert Museum; Shakespeare's Globe Theatre; Hampton Court Palace and in theatres, concert halls, stately homes, churches, palaces and ruins throughout England.
Passamezzo also work with with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador Soufie performing 17th Century English and Moroccan music in both countries.

Television and Radio credits include: Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family; (BBC1); Lucy Worsley's Twelve Days of Tudor Christmas; Howard Goodall's The Truth about Carols (BBC2); Big Brother (Channel 4); Becoming Elizabeth (Starz); Frost Fair; King Lear and Boxing Day, (Radio 4)

Eleanor Cramer: soprano, bass viol
Richard de Winter: baritone, actor
Robin Jeffrey: lute, cittern
Alison Kinder: viols, recorders
Tamsin Lewis: Renaissance violin, viols, alto

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