Tim and Maggie started performing together as a winds and strings duo in 2002.
They perform a variety of music as outlined below.
Early Music Before 1600
- Medieval and Renaissance tunes performed on various strings and winds such as viol da gamba, treble viol, hurdy gurdies, lutes, lombardic mandolin, recorders, flutes, chalumeau, crumhorn, kortholt, and shawm. This music dates approximately from 1200 to 1600.
- For a more robust performance such as for a Renaissance Festival, the above is combined with more Celtic music on bouzouki, citterns, penny whistle, Irish flute, small pipes, bodhran, and highland pipes with tenor drum.
- Tim & Maggie can become the Scottish characters "Magnus & Maggie" with Scottish and/or Renaissance Festival garb. “Magnus & Maggie” bring you a musical timescape from their travels in the North Sea Isles and Western Europe (and lives of established musical academia) along with an arsenal of historic instruments and preposterous tales in the tradition of the jongleurs and goliards of yore. With a magical combination of melody, song, and studies nonsense, they will captivate you with top-shelf rubbish and precise bookish history. Wherever they play, people are charmed by their wit and compelling tunefulness; they leave behind warmth, humor, and a good bit of charmed esoteric magic.
