From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would you like WHYY News to cover? Let us know! The Christmas Pickle notwithstanding, Germany has given us its share of holiday ...

Piffaro, the Renaissance Band will return for its 41st season with a rich slate of concerts celebrating early music and community partnerships across Philadelphia, Wilmington, and New York City. The ...

Tired of wearing a mask? How about a masque? Piffaro, Philadelphia's one-of-a-kind Renaissance Wind Band, will celebrate Twelfth Night with a digital concert featuring music for 17th Century English ...

NEW YORK — Christmas concerts are God’s gift, literally, to early music groups such as Piffaro (Philadelphia’s Renaissance wind band). Audience love taking refuge in holiday exuberance from what we ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Since the early music revival started gaining momentum in the 1950s, creative scholar-musicians have taken audiences places they never dreamed of, or even knew existed. Most of ...

The renaissance band is staging a COVID-safe version of the elaborate 17th-century performance from a West Philly cathedral. Renaissance band Piffaro perform their 17th-century English masque concert ...

, started time traveling in 1980 and has become a trusted source of fine musicianship and scholarship ever since. The seven-member ensemble, which last performed here in 2005, is the featured musical ...

Piffaro is a wind septet who specializes in playing Renaissance wind music in an historically informed fashion on period instruments. These instruments are not the standard fare we are used to hearing ...

Johann Sebastian Bach did not develop as an artistic entity in a vacuum. While he may be considered the intellect that whipped music into some semblance of order, he was, by no means, the first to ...

The Christmas concert I look forward to the most each year is the one by Piffaro, the Renaissance Band. Why? Maybe it’s the spirit of the music, which is centuries closer to the first noel than the ...