Hurly Burly
Welcome to our site! Hurly Burly is an early music ensemble based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada. We are a local group dedicated to researching and performing early music, most notably music from the Medieval and Renaissance periods. See below for a description of our instruments and repertoire, current projects and our latest CD, "Syng We In Thys Hall".
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Upcoming Concerts Spring 2012
Hurly Burly Presents: "Alas, My Love", an afternoon of Medieval and Renaissance songs of love, loss, and longing.
Sunday, May 27, 2:30 p.m., The Guild Hall, St. John's Anglican Church, 99 Brock Street.
CD's will be available for sale at the concert. For more info e-mail choir@celticharper.com or call (705) 748-3750. Facebook event page / Facebook group page
Our usual haunt, for seasonal concerts and the like, is at St. John's Anglican Church in the Guild Hall, Peterborough, ON, 99 Brock St. (you can also enter from Hunter just before the Hunter St. bridge). St. John's website: www.stjohnspeterborough.ca
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Repertoire & Instruments
Hurly Burly's music covers a wide range of time periods, from the 12th Century through to the early 17th Century. Some early period music we have performed includes selections from collections such as the Llibre Vermell (14th C.), Carmina Burana and Cantigas de Santa Maria, as well as works by composers such as Adam de la Halle (1200's), Gilles Binchois (1400-1460), Guillaume Dufay, and Josquin des Pres. Later period repertoire includes works by the likes of Thomas Ravenscroft, Susato, Byrd, Bassano, and madrigals from composers such as Thomas Morley (1557-1603) and Orazio Vecchi (1550-1605). We also write our own arrangements of period tunes and songs. Instruments used include recorders, harp, citole, psaltery, dulcimer, period fiddle, flute, rackett, lute-guitar, cornemus, and various percussion.
Generally the choir is project-based, that is, we decide on a theme for a concert or workshop and work towards that, usually doing a couple of concerts each year. However, when there is sufficient interest, we will sometimes organize informal music gatherings, such as bardic circles, music for dancing, music talks, and the like. We are also open to requests for demos and concerts for schools and charity organizations.
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News & Projects
Dec. 4th '11: "Masters In Thys Hall". Our 2011 seasonal concert featured vocal and instrumental music from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.
2011 Updates: The new CD is still in progress. We hope to have it available soon. All the tracks have been recorded, but it still needs to be mastered, CD cover designed, CD's cut and packaged, and so on, which is why it's taking so long!
2010 Winter concerts Nov. 30 & Dec. 12: Alleluja! Halleluyah! Alleluia!. Hurly Burly's annual holiday concert, featuring vocal and instrumental music from centuries past. This year we ranged from the earliest known Christmas songs in both English and German, through 15th century polyphony, to some post-Reformation pieces. Instruments used in this concert included recorders, harp, hammered dulcimer, citoles, flute, vielle, violin, and percussion. All of the members of the group are also singers, so the concert featured pieces with full choral harmony, mixed vocal and instrumental, and purely instrumental selections.
Other news and projects from previous years
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Charities & Special Occasions
Hurly Burly is always open to doing demonstrations of music and dance for schools, charities and other organizations. We have also done theme weddings. We can perform casually, in formal attire, or in full period costume. If you have an event where you feel early music would be appropriate, feel free to contact us with the details.
Contact Us
Any inquiries regarding the choir or ensemble can be directed towards our musical director, Tanah Haney. You can get in touch with her by e-mail at choir@celticharper.com, or call (705) 748-3750. You can also find us on Facebook here.
Anyone interested in the Celtic harp in particular can check out the Celtic Harp Page at www.celticharper.com (where you can also find a set of links to other historical music pages).
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Back to the Celtic Harp Page
Back to Tanah's personal page (lessons and solo harp)
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