The North Richland Hills Library is hosting a Tolkien themed event celebrating Bilbo Baggins’ birthday on Saturday, September 26, 2026, 12:00pm–2:00pm at 9015 Grand Ave, North Richland Hills, TX 76180.
Register at Second Breakfast in the Shire | North Richland Hills Library
The Dallas Renaissance Consort will be playing renaissance and English Country dances from Susato, Arbeau, Pratorius, and Playford on recorders, crumhorns, and viols.
Music will include:
RenFest | Downtown Arlington, TXhttps://downtownarlington.org/do/renfest
The first ever Shakespeare RenFest in downtown Arlington will be on Saturday, Oct 31, 2026 12pm – 6pm.
Enjoy an afternoon of live entertainment, artisan vendors full of handmade treasures, food trucks, performances, and Renaissance-inspired festivities. Then stay for Shakespeare LIVE’s production of Macbeth at 7:00 pm.
The Dallas Renaissance Consort plans a program of “Popular Music in the age of Shakespeare”
Music Planned:
A Northern Lasse’s Lamentation
We are a group of instrumental musicians who play renaissance music together, especially mixed consort settings of William Byrd, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons, and other 16th century composers. Email me at music@twmarsh.net for more information.
The 64th VdGSA Conclave will be held July 26 – August 2, 2026 at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. See the event site at https://www.vdgsa.org/conclave-2026 for details.
There is an active viol group in Dallas that meets weekly. The contact link is on the national society page at https://www.vdgsa.org/local-chapters
The website at https://dfwviols.com/ has lots of great music for the viol, but is not a local chapter site.
DFW lutes of hosting a workshop on playing lute, tentatively scheduled for July 18th at Lark Music Loft in Carrollton TX. See the event announcement at https://dfwlute.org/lute-workshops-for-all-levels/ for more details.
This year’s summer Toot will be held June 7-13 at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas. Everyone in the southwest who sings or plays medieval or renaissance music on any instruments should attend.
See their web site at https://toot.org/nwp/summer-texas-toot-2026/ for more details.
The Dallas/Fort Worth chapter of the Lute Society of America is now meeting regularly. See their website at https://dfwlute.org/ or email info@dfwlute.org for more information.
The Gruffydd Collection of Christmas Carols is now available here. It contains many of the carols the Gruffydd consort has used in their decade of Medieval Christmas concerts.
