Alkemie's spirited performances of medieval music are grounded in historical performance practice and fed by our love of experimentation.

With the support of Early Music America, this March (Early Music Month!) Alkemie will inagurate a NYC-based initiative dubbed "Alkemie and Friends," a series of informal, musically experimental, and multi-sensory concerts in non-traditional NYC concert settings.

Our first concert, “Blood, Booze, and Betrayal” will take place on Friday, May 13 at 1 Rivington, the pop-up venue of Metropolis Ensemble on the lower east side of Manhattan. Come for the murder ballads and stay for the drinking songs in this program featuring the extremely broken (i.e. non-sonically homogeneous) consort of Sian Ricketts (douçaine, recorders, voice), Tracy Cowart (electric bray harp, percussion, voice) of Alkemie alongside Celtic specialist Fiona Gillespie (whistle, voice) and composer Paul Holmes Morton (banjo, theorbo, lute) of folk band Chivalrous Crickets and musical maverick Loren Ludwig of Acronym.

Blood, Booze, & Betrayal

Sat. March 14, 2020

7:00pm doors / 7:30pm show

1 Rivington Street

2nd Floor (Buzzer #1)

New York, NY 10011

Diana's Hunt

Sunday, May 10, 2020

4:00pm show / 5:30pm reception

Amherst Presbyterian Church

163 2nd Street

Amherst , VA 24521

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