Come hear our all-Renaissance Concert on Sunday Feb 8th, 2026, 4:30-6:00 pm at St Hilda’s Anglican Church, 5838 Barnacle St, Sechelt BC.
Tickets $20 suggested donation or pay what you can, by cash, cheque or e-transfer at the door.
A variety of Sunshine Coast performers, including the RenFriends Singers, Coast Shakespeare Fairy Band, SunCoast Viol Consort & BC Viols, and special guests Caitlin Beaupre, Janice Brunson, Simon Gidora & Isabella Perron, will be joined by friends from Vancouver, Texada Island, and Nanaimo. Singers and instrumentalists will perform an all-Renaissance programme of works by Morley, Byrd, Weelkes, Scheidt, Victoria, Monteverdi, and more, on recorders, flute, viols, lute, nyckelharpa, and harpsichord. Special thanks to David Poon for loaning his beautiful harpsichord for this concert.
Performers:
Kim Aippersbach – voice
Leona Axbey – voice
Karen Baxter – viols
Caitlin Beaupré – voice
Albano Berberi – harpsichord, nyckelharpa
Denise Bonte – voice
Janice Brunson – soprano recorder, voice
Tegan Ceschi-Smith – viols
Maureen Drake – voice, viols
Jon Eriksson – voice, recorders, bassoon
Simon Gidora – voice, harpsichord
Barbara Jackson – voice
Shirley Jackson – voice
Carole James – voice
Lise Kreps – voice, recorders, flute, bass viol
Heidi Kurz – voice, soprano recorder, flute
Joya Muma – lute, viols
Juliet O’Keefe – voice
Earle Peach – voice
Isabella Perron – voice
Evelyn Phillips – voice
David Poon – viols
Sarah Poon – viols
Sue Power – voice
Russ Proudman – voice
Chris Sallis – voice
Danielle Stephens – voice
Martin Svingen – bass recorder, bass viol
Pat Unruh – viols
Deborah van der Goes – recorders, viols
Carol Yamada – voice
Alan Yoshioka – voice
The RenFriends Consort is an informal group of singers and instrumentalists on the Sunshine Coast, who enjoy meeting in each others’ homes to sing and play Renaissance music (and eat snacks!).
Renaissance secular music was designed for exactly this – for friends to get together and sing and/or play in small groups, for fun. All the parts are equally interesting, often trading off melodic themes, which encourages us to listen to each other.
If you can sing in tune and/or play a Renaissance(ish) instrument, you can read music, and you would like to join us, email Lise [å t] transcenturyradio.com. Please include your phone number so she can call you for a chat and informal phone audition.