This successful re-enactment ensemble brings “music from troubled times” – the arrival of the Scottish Kings, Catholicism and civil war. “Tunes from Troubled Times” brings to you songs and dances from the era of the Suart Monarchs; a period of bloody civil war, colourful kings and the lust for life of the common people. Songs and dances are included, from the spectacular court masques, harp music from the Scottish Castles and folk music for bagpipes, hurdy-gurdy, and pipe and tabor from the village green. Sirinu round off their recording with broadside ballads – topical stories sold in markets and fairs which were the tabloids of the age.
Medley: The Whim, Bobbing Joe, Goddesses, Red House, Grimstock
When the king enjoys his own again
Gather ye rosebuds William Lawes
Johney cock thy beaver
I wish I were where Helen lies
The witches
Fairest isle Henry Purcell
I serve a worthie lady
Martin said to his man
La Folia, division on a ground
No more shall meads Nicholas Lanier
Green grows the rushes
Tomorrow the fox will come to town
Frog’s galliard
The jolly barber
Greensleeves to a ground
A masque
The Queen’s masque
The saint turned sinner
Daphne
No, no, fair heretic William Lawes
Medley: Heart’s ease, Cuckolds all in a row, Hockley in the hole