Sara Stowe voice/keyboards Sharon Lindo fiddle/violin Henry Stoabart whistle/bagpipes Jon Banks harp/dulcimer Matthew Spring lute/hurdy-gurdy

New 1707 Scottish programme Within a Furlong of Edinboro’ Town. Winning tours of Europe, South America and Asia for the British Council and the Early Music Network of medieval/renaissance and world music.

‘A tour de force of sound, colour, movement and dance…energetic and virtuosic’. Early Music Review ‘Sirinu brought the house down at the South Bank’. Independent ‘This brilliant synthesis of scholarship, musicianship, vivacity of performance..one of the best concerts in this year’s season from the Early Music Network …’ Early Music News ‘... pure aesthetic pleasure’. La Presencia, La Paz, Bolivia Many recordings on CD and radio. ‘A gorgeous set of programmes ... beautfiully performed’. The Guardian

Sample Programme:

The More Subtle Art: Heresy and Healing in the Courts of the Antipope: The late 1300s...two competing popes, intrigue, frenzy and flagellation...and soaring above it all an extraordinary lyric song tradition. Sirinu decipher the sensuous beauty shrouded behind the complexity of this ‘more subtle art’ with voice, harp, lute, gittern and hurdy-gurdy.

Education:

Workshop/performance for Halloween for 5-11 year old Witches and Wizards ready to delve into this festival’s past history. Workshops of Tudor Music: Sir Francis Drake’s musical Circumnavigation of the Globe, Music from the Age of the Discoveries (panpipes from South America/European music). All ages of children, special needs and adults. Differing lengths and group sizes (ideal number approx 30).

Recordings:

Hyperion: Cradle of the Renaissance (music from Leonardo da Vinci’s time); Chandos: All Goodly Sport (the complete music of Henry VIII); EML: Bold, Fearless and Rash (Music from the court of Burgundy); Various recordings for the Gift of Music

Performances:

26 May 07 Diss Festival
21 Jul 07 Leasowes Bank
21 Sep 07 Oundle Festival

Contact:

Sirinu, The Administrator, 49 Pitts Road, Oxford, OX3 8BA

Tel: 01865 761966/01992 581099
Fax: 01865 761966

Email: sirinu@matspring.demon.co.uk Website: www.sirinu.co.uk