Skye Consort
Schedule
Thu Sep 19 2024 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Mills Hardware | Hamilton, ON
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Skye ConsortTHU SEPT 19, 2024 • 7PM DOOR, 8PM SHOW
General Admission Seated | LIC/AA
$15 (+SC/HST) Advance
Skye Consort was formed in 1999, has performed and toured extensively, and has eight full-length albums. In November and December of 2018, Skye Consort in collaboration with Emma Björling created a new repertoire grown from Scandinavian, Québecois and Celtic roots. The recording was released on LEAF Music in May 2019 and is distributed worldwide on Naxos. Skye Consort & Emma Björling won the OPUS award for best world music album 2020. This tour presents four musicians from the second collaborative recording between Skye Consort and Emma Björling. "Ode & Ballade" features Emma Björling (lead voice, percussion), Seán Dagher (lead voice, Irish bouzouki, banjo), Amanda Keesmaat (cello, voice) and Simon Alexandre (nyckelharpa, violin, voice), with Alex Kehler (nyckelharpa, violin, voice) on the album, also composing and arranging. The musicians sing in three languages (Swedish, French, English), and the words “ode” and “ballade” resonate with meaning in all three: poem, song, tale, sonnet, folly, chant, and dance. The music of this album combines elements from world music and classical traditions to offer audiences thoughtful arrangements and creative compositions: a Swedish Polska accompanied by Québec foot percussion and 18th-century Scottish-style chords, a French song with Norwegian-sounding interludes between the verses, a Purcell/Playford-style dance tune with Swedish texts and accompanied on the banjo. About half of the repertoire is original compositions by the members of Skye Consort & Emma Björling and all are original arrangements for this formation. The group's genre, dubbed "trans-Atlantic Chamber Folk" by Lyra Magazine (Sweden), creates a sound that is unique among Folk artists and Classical Ensembles. Through the artists' love of different folk traditions and folk and baroque/classical styles, they uncover and present many haunting texts and sounds from different worlds.
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Where is it happening?
Mills Hardware, 95 King St. E.,Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
