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Medieval Music Duo was formed in 1991 by Janice Hill, voice, and Pat Unruh, vielle, after a workshop with Sequentia revealed a shared passion for medieval music performance. Since then, they have combined their talents, producing and offering concerts, lecture-recitals, and two recordings, La Rosa Enflorece: Sephardic Song - Rhythm & Romance and Medieval Song for Christmas.

ANIMA's aim is to delight modern audiences, recreating a sense of time and place through music and tableaux. Concerts include music and texts from England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the Sephardic diaspora. ANIMA's repertoire addresses the gamut of human experience: the religious, the outcast, women, lovers, aristocrats, exiles.

Full-length programmes that ANIMA has developed include:

La Rosa Enflorece: Sephardic Song - Rhythm and Romance: sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. Music of the Sephardic diaspora, including sung stories (romance), love-songs, and wedding-pieces. ANIMA is joined by Douglas Hensley, oud and setar, and Peter Maund, percussion.

Le Trésor des Dames: Music by and for medieval women: sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts. Music by Hildegard von Bingen, Blanche of Castille, Herrad of Hohenburg, Peter Abelard, and others, with tableaux of amorous games and love trysts.

Medieval Song for Christmas: a programme of medieval English carols, Italian popular devotional song, and non-liturgical festive music of Advent and Christmas, with stories, short sermons and folk-poetry.

Whan in Aprill . . . Songs of Eastertide and Spring, including music for St. George: music and poetry for the Paschal season, springtide, and St. George - the medieval "people's saint", religious warrior, spring-time nature-hero. (St. George's Day: April 23rd).

Three Centuries of Medieval Song: music from a variety of social milieux, including the cloister, the court, the chamber and the street, complemented by read stories, jokes and poems.