Known World Brass Choir

Loud 1

Location: Loud 1 Instructor:Sir Mieczko the Swift Description: Bring your cornetti, sackbuts, *lysarden*, and serpents (modern trombones and trumpets are ok). Music provided.

Writing Period-Style Ballads

Tent 9

Location: A&S Tent 9 Instructor:Ollaimh Ruaidhri an Cù Description: Learn about the elements of the period ballad and then write your own period-style ballad.

The Pennsic Mightier: Improv Workshop

Amphitheater

Location: Amphitheater Instructor:Mistress Aibhilin inghean Daibhidh Description: Improv workshop for experienced performers: address higher level improv skills, create character, build scenes leading to a performance. **Age limit**

Pre-16th-Century Musical Modal Improvisation

Cafe Merhaba

Location: Cafe Merhaba Instructor:Master Albrecht Catsprey Description: This is a practical application class for musicians to learn improvisational skills that were practiced in the Middle Ages. **College level.**

*Commedia Pastorale*: Fantasy in Period Theatre

Amphitheater

Location: Amphitheater Instructor: TH Niccolò Bartolazzi Description: Magicians, nymphs, monsters! 16th-century *commedia dell'arte* mixed with enchanting fantasy of *pastorale*!

Late Period Rounds

PARC

Location: PARC Instructor:Mistress Elizabeth of Dendermonde Description: Come help sing through (or listen to) some late period rounds.

Taberna Diana

Instructor:Lady Diana of Viroconium Description: Stop at the Taberna Diana for bardic fun and culinary delights. Enjoy some refreshment as Diana and her friends entertain.

*i Verdi Confusi*: Peace Week Follies

Amphitheater

Location: Amphitheater Instructor: TH Niccolò Bartolazzi Description: The first week needs entertainment too! Join us for *Commedia dell'Arte* follies at the Amphitheatre!