I Madrigali is a group of singers from community and church choirs around Nashville who gather each summer when their usual choirs take a season off. Quite appropriately, their repertoire draws heavily from the rich Renaissance body of madrigals celebrating the joys of midsummer festivities. Directed by John Perry, the ensemble will perform the pre-show music before the Nashville Shakespeare Festival’s performance in Centennial Park this Saturday evening at 6:30. On Saturday Aug. 29 they’ll sing the downtown library’s Music in the Morning concert at 10:30 am.

Set list:

Thomas Morley: My Bonnie Lass She Smileth

Thomas Morley: Shoot False Love, I Care Not

Anonymous: How Can the Tree But Waste

Thomas Weelkes: Lady, Your Eye My Love Enforced

Nicolo Zingarelli: Go Not Far From Me, O God

traditional, arranged by Alice Parker: Hark, I Hear The Harps Eternal

John Bennet: All Creatures Now Are Merry Minded