The programme includes music by Cavendish, Bennet, Greene, East, Johnson, Pilkington, Purcell and Robinson.

With Eleanor Cramer (soprano, bass viol), Arngeir Hauksson (lute, guitar, bass), Alison Kinder (viols, recorders), Tamsin Lewis (Renaissance violin, viols, alto), Jack Merivale (actor, baritone)

Passamezzo, founded in 2001, is a dynamic ensemble dedicated to the performance of Early Music in a historically informed context. They specialise in English Elizabethan and Jacobean repertoire, the masque being an important part of their programming, and their concerts have a distinct theatrical air, created by costume, readings and presentation. Their repertoire ranges 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 the bedlamite mad songs. Passamezzo have played in a number of venues throughout England, appeared on television and broadcast on the radio.

Their programme, ‘In Peascod Time - Music, Words and Song for Summer and Harvest.’ is a collection of ballads, madrigals, lute songs, dances and consort music from the 16th, 17th and early 18th centuries, inspired by nature and in particular the activities of Summertime and the Harvest. The programme includes music by Cavendish, Bennet, Greene, East, Johnson, Pilkington, Purcell and Robinson.

£12.50 adults, £6 students, children free. 

Tickets available from A E Lee Outfitters, High Street, Crediton and on the door. 

For further information contact society chairman Mrs Isolde Summers on 01363 773472