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Hesperus, the Washington-based ensemble named for Venus and the West Wind, will perform its unique blend of European Medieval and Renaissance music with traditional American folk styles at The Theatre at Washington, Va., on Saturday, April 10, at 8 p.m.
In a style defined as “Crossover,” Hesperus calls its program “an entertaining and eye-opening fusion of American blues, ragtime, Cajun, swing, vaudeville, Appalachian and gospel blended with European Medieval and Renaissance music.”
Scott Reiss, artistic director, and Tian Chancey, producing director, founded Hesperus in 1979. Reiss (recorders, hammered dulcimer, and hand drums) is also co-director of the Folger Consort and has appeared as a soloist with such noted organizations as the National Symphony Orchestra, the 20th Century Consort, Concert Royal, and the Smithsonian Chamber Players. Chancey (viola da gamba, an early, traditional violin, and the medieval vielle, and rebec) has been a frequent guest artist with the Folger Cosort and is executive director of Golden Apple Records. In addition to their “Crossover" program, the ensemble performs medieval, renaissance and baroque chamber music, Spanish and British colonial American works and Classical blues.
For their crossover programs, Reiss and Chancey have teamed up with American folk specialist Bruce Hutton (banjos, guitars, mandolin, lap dulcimer, ukelele, mouth bow,
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