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" Cancionero is an Early Music Ensemble based in the Sevenoaks and Maidstone area of Kent. The group perform music from the Middle Ages and early Renaissance with an emphasis on the troubadour and Spanish repertoire but also including music from the Tudor court. Programmes are available with from 2 to 5 performers.

Members of the group sing and perform on a wide variety of instruments: Renaissance recorders, cornamuse, crumhorn, bagpipes, medieval and renaissance lute, vihuela, harp, gittern, citole, crwth, dulcimer, psaltery, rebec, virginals, hurdy-gurdy and percussion." See website for more information (ed.)

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