Performers:
This section is intended for groups or individuals who are members of NEEMF, and are available for booking or who give performances likely to interest other members of NEEMF.
- A Noise of Minstrels - Medieval, Tudor and Stuart programmes; traditional and popular forms, using a wide variety of unusual instruments. Harrogate-based.
- The Rudgate Singers - choir performing church music as part of church service. Repertoire from Palestrina, Victoria etc to Stanford and Bruckner.
- Ad Musicam string quartet and ensemble - music for weddings, corporate functions, and festivals: baroque (on period instruments), classic, or Palm Court
- Leeds Baroque Orchestra - period instrument orchestra directed by Peter Holman
- Arioso - Yorkshire based baroque ensemble featuring strings and voice
- Ad Hoc Baroque - flexible ensemble drawn from members of Leeds baroque Orchestra for chamber music requiring varying forces
- Leeds Liturgical Choir - members drawn from University of Leeds, performing sacred choral music in liturgical settings. Contact:
- Foscarina - early baroque chamber music. Website has a great frog animation but no contact details; however, you could try mailing Martin Grayson at M.Grayson@sheffield.ac.uk.
- Leeds Waits - wind band, featuring shawms bagpipes etc
- York Waits - likewise. Watch out for Christmas events from this band
- Costume Bands - "offers musicians in period costume for every occasion, from concert performance to weddings, ceilidhs, historical banquets, birthday and anniversary parties, fairs, festivals" - wot no funerals?
- City of Lincoln Waites early Tudor band with a pre-1540 repertoire ... Rauschpfeifes, Lysarden, Sackbutt, Recorders, Whistles, Percussion, Viol, Violoni, Cornett, and hurdy-gurdy
- Quodlibet - group of four vocalists; mainly madrigals and chansons of the sixteenth century