Heath Markwell

The lute is not an instrument you hear at many Adelaide weddings, which is rather the point. Heath Markwell plays Renaissance repertoire on it: dance tunes with real drive, improvised passages that sit somewhere near jazz, and slow ballads that suit a room settling into dinner. He'll play a ceremony, a dinner function or a proper concert, and he travels interstate as well as working locally. Period costume is an option if your event has a theme running through it, and the set can be shaped around the venue and the shape of your day. It's quiet, old music played properly, and it holds a room without ever shouting over it.