"First Fridays at the Mad Hatter"  presents "The Magic Lute Show"

Join popular St. Paul lutenist and trickster Richard Griffith for an evening of atmospheric Renaissance music, readings from Renaissance sources on witchcraft, magic, and alchemy and some spine-chilling bits of magic and mental chicanery at the Madhatter Coffee Cafe and Teahouse Friday, October 3rd at 7:00pm.  No admission is charged, but a $10 donation is suggested.  The Mad Hatter Coffee Cafe and Tea House is located at 945 W. 7th Street in St. Paul.  For more information, email: magic.lute@earthlink.net or call 612-865-5954.

Saturday, October 4, 2008 - 7:30 PM

“Music from the Inner Chamber: Renaissance Music for One and Two Lutes”

The Terzetti Lute Duo (Phillip Rukavina and Thomas Walker Jr.) takes us on a sonorous journey through 16th-century Europe, via the rich sounds of the Renaissance lute duet!  The concert features music by virtuoso Italian lutenists Giovanni Antonio Terzi (1593- ca.1620), Allesandro Piccinini (1566-1638), Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591) and lovely settings of music by the famously melancholy English lutenist John Dowland (1563-1626) and Elizabeth I's own court lutenist John Johnson (1540-1594).

Saturday, October 4, 7:30 PM at Messiah Episcopal Church, 1631 Ford Pkwy, St. Paul

(Three Blocks east of Snelling Avenue)

Tickets are available at the door only - $10 suggested donation. Call 651-699-1808

Sunday, October 12, 2008 - 2:00 PM

Richard Griffith opens the Minnesota Guitar Society's Local Artist Concert Series at the Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts (6666 East River Road in Fridely) presenting a program of mostly Scottish lute music along with some lute favorites from early Baroque England and France.  The music starts at 2:00 PM and admission is free. 

Thursday, November 13, 2008 - 7:00 PM

St. Paul Public Library Concert Series