Renaissance Singers | Far Out! Godwits & Guitars

Featuring classical guitarist Matthew Marshall, strings, and Jeannette McGrath's guitar ensemble.

Renaissance Singers and Christine Archer-Lockwood invite you to experience an absolute feast of new music. Be transported by the choir and Matthew Marshall's guitar to Alaska and back with Foxton's Godwits, James Joyce's Ireland, Spain's gypsy life, Mexican folklore, and Walt Whitman's Civil War, and experience renewal inspired by a little blue penguin moulting and renewing its feathers. This will be a very special concert not to be missed. Classical Guitar and choir works are rare in New Zealand and while popular overseas, none of these works have been performed in New Zealand before.

Godwits has been especially commissioned by the choir from acclaimed New Zealand composer Anthony Ritchie, and published poet Anne French, who used to sing with Renaissance Singers. Godwits has a pair of godwits as central characters flying from Alaska to Foxton before spending time at the Manawatu river mouth. Godwits is written for choir, solo guitar, guitar ensemble, two violins and double bass—a unique combination! The choir is very impressed with the piece and are looking forward to performing it for you.