Passamezzo

Passamezzo is an early music ensemble known for their ability to bring historical events to life through engaging performance and programming.

They specialise in English Elizabethan and Jacobean repertoire, and delight in all aspects of musical life, from the intimacy of the lute song, to the brash raucousness of the broadside ballad, from the sacred part song, to the profane insanity of bedlamite mad songs. The programmes are carefully researched with music frequently taken from manuscript sources, unearthing pieces that have lain hidden for centuries. It is this range of material and overall spectacle, combined with the informative and accessible manner of their presentation, that makes Passamezzo such an engaging group.

Television and Radio credits include: Lucy Worsley's Merry Tudor Christmas; Danny Dyer's Right Royal Family (BBC1); BBC Restoration; Howard Goodall's The Truth about Carols (BBC2); Elizabeth I's Secret Agents (BBC2); Big Brother (Channel 4); Henry VIII and his six wives, and Elizabeth I (Channel 5).

Passamezzo also work with with Moroccan Sufi musicians, Ensemble Mogador Soufie creating a fusion of 17th Century English and Moroccan music in both countries as part of the Shore To Shore Project