2025 FESTIVAL | June 8–15, 2025
Aaron Sheehan, tenor & Paul O’Dette, lute & theorbo
The Excellency of Wine: Songs by Dowland, Guédron, Moulinié, and Henry Lawes
Celebrate love, laughter, and drinking in an intimate and invigorating recital of lute songs featuring GRAMMY winners Aaron Sheehan and Paul O’Dette. Henry Lawes’s song The Excellency of Wine praises the libation that “quenches love’s fires” and “teaches fools how to rule a State.” Indulge in repertoire of positively breathtaking beauty for voice and lute from two world-renowned performers.
“O’Dette captures this music’s improvisatory quality with effortless finger work and fluent ornamentation.”
“Aaron Sheehan, a tenor, is bright and appealing.”