We welcome the return of costumed early music consort Passamezzo in a programme examining 16th and 17th Century fashions and attitudes to clothing. Through the medium of ballads, partsongs, rounds, consort music and readings they will recreate the world of ornate wedding clothes and lovers’ gifts; fine fabrics and accessories; court and country fashions; merchants, moralising rants, foreign styles and fairy clothing
The programme is inspired by references to clothing in the famous 16th Century song Greensleeves and features music by composers of that era such as Thomas Campion, John Jenkins and Thomas Morley
