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The Linarol Consort
Folkestone Early Music
Sunday 11th October, 2026
3:00 pm
The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2XL
Concert
The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols
Folkestone Early Music presents The Linarol Consort of Renaissance Viols in ‘Epitaph for a Green Lover – music from the songbooks of Margaret of Austria’ with soprano Héloïse Bernard. The programme tells the remarkable story of Margaret of Austria, one of the 16th century’s greatest patrons of the arts, through music from her own manuscripts.
Margaret not only loved to dance and sing: above all, she loved her green parrot. The concert’s title comes from the remarkable chanson, ‘Soubz ce tumbel’, with its tragic text by Margaret’s court poet, Jean Lemaire, taken from his Epitaphe de l’Amant vert, in which the Green Lover refers to the beloved green parrot. The programme comprises songs and instrumental music, played on renaissance viols, rebec, pipes and drums.
The Linarol Consort is supported by a grant from Continuo Foundation.
£20 (free to children and students)
