Awesome Is This Place

In-Person & On-Demand Concert

Listen to the evocative sounds of today’s leading medieval music performers. This new program presents Alkemie’s creative arrangements of favorite works by Guillaume DuFay – considered the foremost European composer by his 15th-century contemporaries – alongside the compositions of modern medieval luminary Shira Kammen. Though written centuries ago, many of the texts on this program have a strong sense of place recognizable to us today - like a beloved home, a garden, or a place of spiritual worship. We also appreciate that Dufay was one of the few composers of the time to set poetic texts from the female perspective.

ALKEMIE
Tracy Cowart (voice, harps, percussion)
Ben Matus (voice, medieval bagpipes)
David McCormick (vielle)
Elena Mullins Bailey (voice, harp, percussion)
Niccolo Seligmann (vielles, scheitholt, gittern)
Sian Ricketts (voice, recorders, douçaines)

~with~

Shira Kammen (composer; voice, vielle, harp)
Corey Shotwell (tenor)

On-Demand Concert Broadcast through May 13.