concert review: Broceliande
Jul. 8th, 2006 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacIt's not listed on their web site yet, because it just came out, like, today, but Brocelïande, our local favorite folk-cum-medieval/Renaissance quartet, have released Jig of Life, the Summer entry and fourth & final album in their "Songs of the Season" series that's been in the works for about six years. (Now they need to invent a fifth season, like unto a thirteenth zodiacal sign.)
And I'm just back from the CD release concert at East/West Books in Mountain View, a tiny but convenient venue. Kristoph dazzled with some fast concertina reels on the mandolin. Karl extolled the virtues of contradancing. Kris, the cellist, offered us a few pieces on what she called the soprano cello, a violin played the way a cellist would play it, balanced on the knee. And Margaret, after tuning her harp ultra-fast, told me (this was easy, I was sitting in the front row of a tiny room) that yes, they hope to take up my offer of a venue for them at next year's Mythcon.
An enjoyable evening out, and I have the CD to show for it. It's got "Star of the County Down" and "Wild Mountain Thyme", and Peter Bellamy's setting of "Oak, Ash and Thorn", and a version of "Rosebud in June" quite unlike Steeleye's, and a round by that evil Elizabethan, Thomas Ravenscroft, and a song in Swedish, and those concertina reels, and one Sacred Harp song, and much else.
And I'm just back from the CD release concert at East/West Books in Mountain View, a tiny but convenient venue. Kristoph dazzled with some fast concertina reels on the mandolin. Karl extolled the virtues of contradancing. Kris, the cellist, offered us a few pieces on what she called the soprano cello, a violin played the way a cellist would play it, balanced on the knee. And Margaret, after tuning her harp ultra-fast, told me (this was easy, I was sitting in the front row of a tiny room) that yes, they hope to take up my offer of a venue for them at next year's Mythcon.
An enjoyable evening out, and I have the CD to show for it. It's got "Star of the County Down" and "Wild Mountain Thyme", and Peter Bellamy's setting of "Oak, Ash and Thorn", and a version of "Rosebud in June" quite unlike Steeleye's, and a round by that evil Elizabethan, Thomas Ravenscroft, and a song in Swedish, and those concertina reels, and one Sacred Harp song, and much else.
