Cavalilly Men
Thor Ewing and Anne Marie Summers present popular music and songs of the English Civil War for Museums, Concerts, Castles, History Fairs, Weddings, Banquets, Re-enactment, Living History and other events.
Songs of the day (both political and more light-hearted) combine with music and tunes from Playford’s English Dancing Master.
Instruments featured are the harp, recorders, bagpipes, hurdy gurdy and percussion.
Other historical programmes include:
Cantus Britannicus (Roman and Celtic Music)
Scop and Skald (Viking and Anglo-Saxon Music)
Tudor Rose (Sixteenth Century Music)
Shakespeare’s Day (Elizabethan and Jacobean Music)
Pieces of Eight (Pirate Songs and Music)