Passamezzo have made a new disc: The Greensleeves Project – Clothing in early modern music and song.
All 18 verses of the iconic ballad of Greensleeves, with its depiction of Elizabethan fashion and material culture; three instrumental pieces named after items of clothing or fabric: Green Garters, Crimson Velvet, The Queen’s Pantoufle; a song from Shakespeare’s play, ;A Winter’s Tale’, describing fabrics and accessories found in a pedlar’s pack.
https://passamezzo.bandcamp.com/album/the-greensleeves-project
Anon: Greensleeves
John Johnson: Green Garters
Anon: Crimson Velvet
Anon: The Queen’s Pantoufle
John Wilson: Lawn as White as Driven Snow
Sam Brown: lute
Eleanor Cramer: soprano
Richard de Winter: tenor
Robin Jeffrey: lute
Alison Kinder: bass viol, recorder
It’s really just a taster, as we hope to record over 100 clothing related pieces of music over the next couple of years