On Apr 4, 2007, at 5:58 PM, Nancy Carlin wrote: > I'm not sure if the changing fashions of Renaissance Faire > entertainment is an indication of lack of interest in the lute. The > faires were always awful places to play - hot, dusty and VERY noisy.
Is the ren. faire thing dying out nowadays? The Maryland Renaissance Festival seems to be alive and well. For a state whose "state sport" is jousting, why doesn't that surprise me!? (What is a state sport anyway?) I was there a couple of years ago, and listened to an excellent group of madrigal singers from Baltimore called Larksong. The first time I ever heard a lute player was at the faire in Agoura, CA back in about 1976 or so. He was sitting on a grassy bank amid so much ambient noise that it was difficult to hear him, but it fascinated me enough to start thinking about taking up the lute myself. To this day I've no idea who that was...One of you olde-time luters maybe? David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rastallmusic.com -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
