Concerts, Festivals, Lecture Demonstrations, Music for Plays
Rinascenza! Italian Renaissance Music
Revel in the Renaissance! A Taste of Earlier Times Through Music
"X MARKS THE SPOT"
X Marks the Spot is a hilarious 30-45 minute skit performed by the Renaissance music duo, A Reasonable Facsimile. With audience interaction, Anne & Rob Burns portray two old salts attempting an expedition for buried treasure. Musical interludes are played on copies of Renaissance instruments. Rob and Anne set sail in search of the treasure of Captain No-Beard, "the youngest pirate ever to sail the seas." The excursion goes from bad to worse as the ship encounters heavy weather, ordnance failure, crew incompetence and mutiny. The jokes go from silly to ridiculous before the unusual treasure is finally found. X Marks the Spot has been seen at the Michigan Renaissance Festival and the South Haven Tall Ships Festival.
NEW! (Available beginning November 2009)
“WEEVILS: THEY'RE NOT JUST FOR BREAKFAST ANYMORE”
A Concert for Sailors and Landlubbers
The title of this music program was inspired by infested ship's biscuits in the tales of Horatio Hornblower, Jacky "Bloody Jack" Faber, Jim Hawkins, Jack Aubrey, Jack Sparrow, and other swashbuckling fictional seafarers. Anne and Rob Burns feature songs mentioned in the stories plus more tunes from the changing times that have launched so many imaginative books and films–the Golden Age of Piracy, the American Revolution, and the heyday of the British Royal Navy. Join us for an hour of rollicking, rolling music of the high seas and lowlands that will shake the weevils right out of your hardtack!
"'Don't you know that in the Navy you must always choose the lesser of two weevils? Oh ha, ha, ha, ha!'" (Jack Aubrey in The Fortune of War by Patrick O'Brian
