Recorder and Renaissance Wind Music Workshop

Adult Group Class

Join us for a workshop featuring (really) old folk music.  Most of us like folk music written in the 1960s. How about folk music from the 1560s, or even earlier?
 
The Old Town School of Folk Music, with the Chicago chapter of the American Recorder Society, offers this workshop for playing the recorder and Renaissance wind instruments. Take part in a musical zoo, recorders making harmonies with crumhorn, shawm, dulcian, sackbut, serpent, and more, the instruments that were popular for playing for dances or just for getting together to jam 500 years ago.
 
We welcome Liza Malamut as the director for the day.  Liza is the artistic director of the celebrated Newberry Consort in Chicago. A specialist in Renaissance music, Liza plays sackbut, an early form of the trombone, and teaches the instrument at Indiana University. 
 
This workshop is intended for people who are familiar with the recorder and allied instruments and who want to take part in a grand day of music making. However, if you want to attend to simply listen and enjoy a lot of terrific ancient harmonies, you are most welcome to join us. We can also direct those who are interested in playing recorder but who are new to the instrument to instructors and resources for beginners.
 
Come and join the fun! We are thinking that the same sort of people who listen to Pete Seeger and Tom Paxton recordings probably also like the music of John Dowland and Orlando de Lassus.