The Festival Consort will present its annual concert of Medieval and Renaissance vocal and instrumental music featuring acclaimed soprano Carol Menke and countertenor Chris Fritzsche. Instrumentalists Joanna Bramel Young, David Hogan Smith, Alan Paul and Robert Cronin will add to the festivities by playing on consorts of recorders, crumhorns and shawms. Other instruments on the program are sackbut, pipe & tabor, guitar, curtal, douçaine, and a recently purchased set of schreyerpfeiffen. All of the instruments are authentic replicas. One of the members of the group, Robert Cronin, is an internationally known builder of shawms. David Hogan Smith is a master reed maker, who maintains all of the double reed instruments.

Works on the program include traditional carols, Medieval songs, works by Praetorius, de Cristo, Festa, and Clemens non Papa.

$15 General Admission

Reservations: (800) 838-3006

Sunday, December 19, 2010

4 pm

Church of the Incarnation

550 Mendocino Ave., Santa Rosa, CA

The Festival Consort has been performing since 1976, and has made several tours of the United States with Community Concerts, sponsored by Columbia Artists. They have been featured at Renaissance Faires, and have played in concert halls and on college campuses throughout Northern California.

For more information: (707)528-6370