Our professional musicians have years of experience in historic music performance.  Most are graduates of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. We use musicians from both The Noyse Merchants and The Shakespeare Band to play at your wedding! We play authentic music on historical reproductions of museum instruments. No modern guitars or other modern instruments! We are proud to present historically-informed performances on authentic reproductions of period instruments. 

 Our players all have national and international resumes.
Some early music program options:

​1. Solo -- music for Elizabethan lute.

2. Soprano and Lute -- A selection of the best-known songs from Shakespeare's plays. Songs of Renaissance England.

3. The Shakespeare Pair -- Lute music paired with Shakespearean texts (see video for examples).

4. Two Lute players and a soprano -- Both lute players are multi-instrumentalists and incorporate Renaissance guitar and flute.

5 The Shakespeare Band -- possible instrumentation depending on repertoire Lute, Theorbo, Renaissance guitar, Citole, violin, Flute, recorder, woodwinds, percussion and the famous Hurdygurdy -- Lots of fun with this group. Some medieval, Renaissance and Celtic tunes as well.

6. Same as No. 5 above  but add a singer and Oh! -- will you ever love this singer!

All prices below reflect 30 to 50 minute non-wedding programs.  Weddings are Our musicians have years of experience in historic performance;  most are graduates of the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. We use musicians from The Noyse Merchants and The Shakespeare Band to play at your wedding! We play authentic music on historical reproductions of museum instruments. No modern guitars or other modern instruments are ever used. We are proud to present historically-informed performances on authentic period reproduction instruments. 

We have all played locally at The Cincinnati Art Museum, The Christ Church Concert Series and most of our players have national and international resumes.
early music program options:

​1. Solo -- Elizabethan lute.

2. Soprano and Lute -- Some of the best known songs from Shakespeare's plays and Renaissance England.

3. The Shakespeare Pair -- Lute music paired with Shakespearean texts.   see video

4. Two Lute players and a soprano -- Both lute players are multi-instrumentalists and incorporate Renaissance guitar and flute.

5 The Shakespeare Band -- Lute, woodwinds, percussion and Hurdygurdy possibly Viol-- Lots of fun with this group. Some medieval, Renaissance and Celtic tunes too.  prices depend on budget and repertoire

6. Same as five but add a singer and Oh! -- do we have a great singer!

Prices below reflect 30 to 50 minute non-wedding programs.  Weddings are typically a little more due to wait times and special requests. Let's talk about it! 
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Amplification is an additional fee of $50.00 to $150.00  (all prices are in US dollars) depending on the number of players.

Non-wedding services in Cincinnati begin at only $150.00 for soloists. Duos begin at $300.00  Trios  are $450.00, and four-piece band starts at only $600.00. We also have a five-piece  or more band with singer beginning at $1000.00.

Tell us what you would like and we will be happy to discuss a budget.

Yes, we will travel and costumes are available for anl extra fee.


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