The Stage News is reporting that the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London will be launching its own record label. The albums will be produced by the Globe in house and then distributed across the UK by the company Select Music.
"The first album, Elizabethan Street Songs, will be released in September. It is performed by early music expert and Globe musician Jim Bisgood and his band Tarleton’s Jig, using traditional instruments such as the sackbut, archlute and hurdy gurdy," reports The Stage.
Marketing director Andrew McNare said, "“The Globe is a very unique performing arts venue, and music is a very integral part of all of the productions that we do. It struck us that we haven’t that celebrated enough."
He continued, "It is opportunity to take the work of the Globe and reach new audiences, and that is something that we are always very keen to do. Obviously we want people, wherever they are in the world, to be able to experience our work. The medium of music seems the ideal way to do this.”
As of right now the albums will not include any of the Shakespeare productions the theater puts up, but only original music composed by their in-house musicians. After Elizabethan Street Songs the next release will be Shakespeare's Lovers, Shakespearean sonnets set to music.
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