About Our Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music Performance

We are currently working on music from the 12th through the 17th centuries, including music from the British Isles, Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula (early Spain). More sound files will be added soon.

The Noyse Merchants specializes in presenting hour-long programs in the following categories:

• English Renaissance music.
• Early Celtic music.
• Medieval and Renaissance French music.
• Early Spanish music (Medieval Renaissance and Baroque).
• Any combinations of the above.
• Instrument demonstrations. We currently have a large selection of historically correct instruments.

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Our repertoire currently includes:

• Celtic music not generally heard in the Cincinnati area, including very early Irish, Celtic, and Scottish music for lute, medieval bagpipes, recorders, and other instruments of the time.
• Medieval instrumental dance music.
• Medieval English, German, Italian, and French songs.
• Our own arrangements of pieces for hurdy-gurdy, lute, baroque guitar, renaissance guitar, recorders, fiddle, rebec, cittern, harp, voice, and percussion.
• Various medieval dances for recorders, vielle, rebec and percussion, including 13th and 14th century salterellos, ductia, danse anglaise, estampie, etc.
• Traditional English music from John Playford's collection of music of the British Isles.

Planning a Celtic Festival? Want something different? Our Celtic music performances present wonderful entertainment and education in a magical setting of music, early musical instruments, history and culture. We celebrate and promote Celtic culture in Cincinnati through music as it was heard centuries ago in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.