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The Winthrop Singers

The Winthrop Singers is a choir formed in 2007 following collaboration between the School of Music at The University of Western Australia and St George’s College. The choir are led by Dr Nicholas Bannan and regularly perform at St…

Tags: choir, Gregorian chant, Guillaume Machaut, Hildegarde of Bingen, Nicholas Bannan, performance, Perth, School of Music, St Georgeâ€™s College, The Winthrop Singers., University of Western Australia, WA, website, Western Australia

Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group display

This display at the 2012 PMRG/CMEMS â€˜Receptions: Medieval and Early Modern Cultural Appropriationsâ€™ conference (Perth, August 2012) celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group. The display showed many of…

Tags: Banquet, conference, display, lecture, performance, Perth, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group, Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group display, PMRG, re-creation, Receptions, The University of Western Australia, WA, Western Australia.

â€œRobin Hoodâ€ (pantomime)

This 1924 article in the Hobart based newspaper The Mercury advertises two performances of the pantomine 'Robin Hood' at the Bijou Theatre. The performances were held 'by special request' following an earlier successful season. The pantomine is…

Tags: Bijou Theatre, Hobart, newspaper, outlaw, pantomime, performance, Robin Hood, Tas, Tasmania., The Mercury, theatre

â€œRobin Hoodâ€ (comic opera)

This piece titled “Robin Hood” in the ‘Amusements’ section of the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper appeared on June 30, 1928. It brings to attention a new production of the comic/light opera Robin Hood at the Sydney…

Tags: Comic opera, Conservatorium, Crusade, Government House, Harry B. Smith, light opera, music, New South Wales, NSW, opera, performance, Reginald De Koven, Richard I, Robin Hood, Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney Morning Herald.

Harlequin Medieval Music

Formed in 2005, Harlequin is a four-piece band from Tasmania who play medieval music taken from medieval manuscripts. As well as vocal and percussion a number of medieval instruments are played, including hammered dulcimer, hurdy gurdy, moraharpa,…

Tags: Alfonso 10th, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Galician Portuguese, hammered dulcimer, Harlequin, Harry Wass, hurdy gurdy, instrument, moraharpa, percussion, performance, re-enactment, shawm, Spain, Tas, Tasmania, vielle, vocal, whistle.

Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble

Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble was founded by mezzo soprano Helen Dell in Melbourne, Victoria, in 2007. Their concert program includes Loveâ€™s Paradise â€“ love stories and songs from twelfth and thirteenth-century France; Songs from…

Tags: drama, France, Helen Dell, Iberia, Melbourne, music, performance, poetry, song, Troveresse Medieval Music Ensemble, Vic, Victoria

Woman hit in head with â€˜swordâ€™ as mock medieval battle goes wrong

This online newspaper article by Henrietta Cook appeared in The Age on March 15, 2012. It reports on an incident during the weekly Swordcraft event in Melbourne, Victoria, in which a woman was hit in the head by a rubber sword and required medical…

Tags: battle, game, Henrietta Cook, Melbourne, performance, re-enactment, Swordcraft, The Age, Vic, Victoria

Swordcraft

Swordcraft is a live medieval re-enactment roleplaying game in which players wear realistic costumes and fight with realistic-looking weapons made of rubber and foam, and padded arrows. For photographs see the Gallery on their website. The group is…

Tags: Archery, Armour, arrow, battle, costume, fantasy, game, J.R.R. Tolkien, Melbourne, Orc, performance, re-enactment, roleplay, Swordcraft, The Lord of the Rings, Vic, Victoria, Warhammer, weapons, World of War

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