The Sherwood Consort

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Mary Devlin
6128 Panama Avenue
Richmond, CA 94804

 

Founded in 1995 in Berkeley, California by director Mary Devlin, the Sherwood Consort is a mixed vocal ensemble based in the San Francisco Bay Area dedicated to study and performance of the early music of the British Isles, as well as songs from other cultures which influenced the music of the British Isles. Their first album, BETWEEN MARCH AND APRIL, a collection of English songs and dances of the Middle Ages, was released in October of 1997. Their second album, released in June of 1998, is ROBIN LOVES ME: THE LEGEND OF ROBIN AND MARION, a collection of French trouvère songs and motets surrounding the popular figures of the shepherd Robin and his sweetheart Marion, as well as English songs and ballads of Robin Hood and Maid Marian. In June of 1998, at the Berkeley Early Music Festival Fringe, they performed a revival of Adam de la Halle's Le Gieus de Robin et Marion. In the fall of 1998 they performed Ancient Music of the British Isles, a panorama of English music from 1100 to 1600, and in June of 1999 they performed The Hollow Crown: English Monarchs from Henry II to Elizabeth I. A new CD now in the works is ONE DAY AS I WENT RIDING, an album of French troubadour and trouvère songs as well as French secular polyphony, both vocal and instrumental.

The Consort's work has been honored on more than one occasion. In the fall of 1998, the Sherwood Consort was awarded a three-year grant by the California Arts Council to fund their performances. The Arts Council also invited them to perform at their 1999 Conference. In January of 2000, Just Plain Folks, an online organization of independent musicians, nominated ROBIN LOVES ME for a Best Music Award in the Classical/Opera/Renaissance category.

The Sherwood Consort is available for concerts, festivals, and film work.

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Between March and April (CD)
The Sherwood Consort
Mary Devlin, Director

Music of Medieval England

  1. Say me, viit in the brom

  2. Ar ne kuth ich sorghe non

  3. I must go walke the wood so wilde

  4. Stantipes

  5. Me lykyth ever

  6. Danger me hath unskylflly

  7. I rede that thy be joly and glad

  8. Trewe, on wham is al my tryst

  9. Ductia

  10. I have set my hert so hy

  11. Miri it is whil sumer ilast

  12. Worldes blis

  13. Ye have so linge keepyt O

  14. Nobilis humilis

  15. Dance

  16. Fuweles in the frith

  17. Bryd one brere

  18. Gabriel from hevene-king

  19. Stantipes imperfecta

  20. Sumer is icumen in

  21. Wynter wakeneth al my care

  22. Missal Estampie

  23. Bituene Mersh and Averill

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Robin Loves Me (CD)
The Sherwood Consort
Mary Devlin, Director

The Legend of Robin and Marion

  1. Robin m'aime

  2. Marion and the Knight

  3. Robin and Marion's love duet

  4. Robin, par l'ame ten pere

  5. J'ai encore un tel pasté

  6. Donne moy

  7. Et je ferai

  8. Les us pin verdoiant

  9. Prenes l'arbre

  10. Lai de la Pastourelle

  11. L'autre jour/Hier matinet/Ite missa est

  12. Par un matinet/Hé, bergiers!/Eius

  13. Voulez-vous que je vous chant

  14. Il n'a en toi/Robins, le malvais/Omnes

  15. Robin, d'amour vous demant

  16. Mout me fu griès/Robin m'aime/Portare

  17. Bele Aelis/Haro, haro!

  18. Hui main par u ajournant

  19. Chançon legiere a entendre

  20. La bele estoile

  21. Alone, I live alone

  22. Robene sat on a good grene hill

  23. A Robyn, gentil Robyn

  24. When the nightingale sings

  25. Now Robin lend to me thy bow

  26. Robin is the the greenwood gone

  27. Robin Hood and Maid Marian

 

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