Items are taken from Early Music News, Thames Valley Early Music Forum, and from viol consorts and ensembles themselves, with thanks.
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Concerts marked with an asterisk involve viols, as far as we know

22-26 May
Beverley and East Riding Early Music Festival
Celebrating music from the medieval to the Baroque, Beverley & East Riding Early Music Festival features the harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock; Le Jardin Secret; members of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment; Gallicantus, directed by Gabriel Crouch, and the fun-loving Carnival Band with Vivien Ellis.  info

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25 May / 1pm*
Lunchtime concert
St. Leonard's Church, Church Street, Seaford, East Sussex BN25 1HL
Tutors: Practicall Musicke (Ruth & David Force (voice, recorder, harpsichord) Conni & Maurice Rogers (viols) Programme to be confirmed. Free entry, retiring collection

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30 May / 7.30pm*
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Fretwork, Byrd In Nomines. With Stile Antico
website

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31 May / 4pm
St Mary’s Church, Arkengarthdale, near Richmond, North Yorkshire
Ensemble Musica Poetica, Freiburg. JS Bach's Record Collection
website Swaledale Festival

2 June / 8pm
St Andrew’s Church, Grinton, near Richmond, North Yorkshire
Gonzaga Band/Northern Early Music Collective: The Secret Muse
website Swaledale Festival

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7 June / 8pm*
York House, London Road, Stony Stratford MK11 1JQ
Ayres and Graces - an evening in the company of Samuel Pepys. Mr Simpson's Little Consort with John Alexander as Samuel Pepys and Cate McKee, soprano. Profane, salacious and fascinating exerpts from the diaries of Samuel Pepys accompanied by period music for viols, lute and voices by Purcell, Gibbons, Dowland and Henry Lawes. Organised by Stony Live!
Tickets: email or 01908 501942

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14 June / 7.30pm*
Town Hall, Northgate Street, Chester CH1 2HJ
Michelangelo Drawing Blood .Laszlo Rozsa (recorder) Michael D. Clark (percussion and dulcimer) James Akers (theorbo) Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba) James Hall (countertenor) with Aaron Jeffrey (performer) Stefano Giglioni (performer). Accompanied by music composed by Charlie Barber and performed on Renaissance instruments, two male performers bring to life the fluid twists and turns of Michelangelo's drawings.
info tickets:Chester Performs
info@chesterperforms.com

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20 June / 3pm*
Aldeburgh Festival
Phantasm, All Dowland Concert with Iestyn Davies and Elizabeth Kenny
website

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22 June / 7.30pm*
Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London W1U 2BP
Fretwork, Byrd Consort Songs and consort music
website 020 7520 1490

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29 June
NCEM, St Margaret's Church, Walmgate, York YO1 9TL
The Sixteen - Insight Day
website

5-13 July
York Early Music Festival
The 2013 festival focuses on the musical life of Rome and the 450th anniversary of John Dowland with guests including La Risonanza directed by Fabio Bonizonni; Ensemble Medusa with Patrizia Bovi; Iestyn Davies; Paul O’Dette; Jakob Lindberg and Wieland Kuijken. Full details and tickets available from 18 March from www.ncem.co.uk/yemf  The Festival culminates with the York Early Music International Young Artists Competition on Saturday 13 July. Full details on how to take part are available from www.ncem.co.uk/youngartists

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11 July / 9.30pm*
Parabola Arts Centre, Parabola Road, Cheltenham GL50 3AA
Michelangelo Drawing Blood .Laszlo Rozsa (recorder) Michael D. Clark (percussion and dulcimer) James Akers (theorbo) Ibi Aziz (viola da gamba) James Hall (countertenor) with Aaron Jeffrey (performer) Stefano Giglioni (performer). Accompanied by music composed by Charlie Barber and performed on Renaissance instruments, two male performers bring to life the fluid twists and turns of Michelangelo's drawings.
info tickets: email 0844 880 8094

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25-29 July*
Bate Collection, Faculty of Music, St Aldate's, Oxford OX1
Musical Instruments - History, Science and Culture
A joint enterprise by the Bate Collection at the University of Oxford, the Galpin Society, CIMCIM, and the 'Making the Tudor Viol' project based in Huddersfield. One day will be devoted to a particular focus on early English viols, though papers on cognate matters are expected and will be welcome.
website

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