

- #GREAT LAKES MEDIEVAL FAIRE BAGPIPE BAND FULL VERSION#
- #GREAT LAKES MEDIEVAL FAIRE BAGPIPE BAND PLUS#
534, Rock Creek, Ohio 44084 At the Minstrel Stage! EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY! RAIN or SHINE! GREAT LAKES MEDIEVAL FAIRE, Rt. Minstrel Stage!!! Michigan Renaissance Festival, August, September….details to follow….Ģ022: Saturday July 9- Sunday August 14, 2022. Every Saturday and Sunday, rain or shine!!!! July 8th, Saturday to August 13th Sunday. WOW!!! WHAT FUN!!! We want to thank SHULTZ BRAU BREWING in KNOXVILLE, TN for their gracious welcome and fantastic time! Come see us there next year!!!! Saturday, April 15, 3:30-7:30 and Sunday, April 16, 3:30-7 RITTERFEST at SHULTZ BRAU BREWING COMPANY, 126 Bernard Ave, Knoxville, TN 37917! Come join us at Knoxville’s newest event! John and Barbiel will be having a great time serving up our favorite Medieval, and Renaissance tunes along with our originals and Irish jigs and reels, (anything that will make you thirsty) Hope to see you there! Michael Manderen has been a regular member of our group since 2013 adding his viola da gamba to our performances and delighting us all. We’ve performed for Akron First Night for many years, and for medieval dinner theaters, church concerts, and arts festivals, headlined at the Kent State Folk Festival and various state parks and concert stages.įans have found us regularly performing at Renaissance and Medieval Festivals in the eastern U.S. Over the years Silent Lion has performed everywhere from folk festivals to bookstores to concert venues, including Severance Hall in Cleveland.
#GREAT LAKES MEDIEVAL FAIRE BAGPIPE BAND FULL VERSION#
This is the full version with instrumental and vocal. Circle In the Woods, (c) John Saunders /Barbiel Matthews. An original swing tune with attitude! Find it on our Silent Lion CD featuring John on lead guitar, Barbiel on vocals, Dave Huddleston on bass, and Ohio’s own, the late great Denny Jones on fiddle. John Saunders and Barbiel Matthews-Saunders Rocking the Boat, (c) Saunders/Matthews. Inspired by Tolkien’s Fellowship of the Ring, in which we allude to the moments when the hobbits start out from Bag End, when they arrive at The Prancing Pony, when Frodo dances on the table, when Strider identifies himself, when Barliman Butterbur cannot remember Gandalf’s message, and the Black Riders appear. (p)Saunders Noting the sublime The Prancing Pony (c) Saunders/Matthews, from Ye Travelers of Time CD. Hmmm, sounds like the name….but we have an original arrangement. Silent Lion on the Jewel Stage at Michigan Renaissance Faire, featuring Michael, John, and Barbiel.

(Yes! Available for purchasing!) Silent Lion music can be heard on Amazon, i-Tunes, You Tube, Spotify, Slacker and many internet sites. They are joined by the third SL, Michael Manderen, lutenist and viola da gamba master, at their favorite faires.Įnjoy our site, check schedules, and browse the photos, listen to our music, and look at our cds. The two digital paintings were done by a generous and talented patron! The far above portrait is John Saunders with Irish Bouzouki and near above is Barbiel Matthews-Saunders with guitar, both at Ohio Renaissance Festival, 2006. For the last twenty years they’ve expanded their authentic and ancient repertoire, performing 12th and 15th century favorites along with jigs and reels and their originals inspired by Medieval literature.Īnd there’s still jazz…. (By the way, all their CDs can be ordered from the To Have and To Hold page in this website.) John Saunders and Barbiel Matthews-Saunders of Silent LionĪs much of their original music was Celtic and blended a Medieval mysticism with other more modern musical styles, gravitating toward the Medieval and renaissance festivals was a natural progression. They started out calling themselves Sassafras, but changed to Silent Lion after their second CD, Convivium was published. Silent Lion has been performing and writing music since 1995 when John Saunders and Barbiel formed the original duo of the group. Chanter’s Song/ Arran Boat Song, traditional Irish and Scottish, (c) arranged Saunders Silent Lion as Four at Great Lakes Medieval Faire, 2014. The Minstrel Stage at the Great Lakes Medieval Faire.
#GREAT LAKES MEDIEVAL FAIRE BAGPIPE BAND PLUS#
Silent Lion as Four: John Saunders on Irish Bouzouki, Barbiel Matthews-Saunders, guitar and vocals, plus Michael Manderen on viola da gamba and Rio Blue on cajon.
