- country:USA
- region:North America
- style(s):Classical, Instrumental
- label:not signed
- type:Band, Solo
- gender:male, female
- instrumentation:instrumental, vocal
- artist posted by:Class Acts on Tour
Line up
- Bruce Hutton (banjos, guitars, mandolins, dulcimers, ukelele, ka)
- Grant Herreid (winds, strings, voice)
- Rosa Lamoreaux (soprano vocalist)
- Tina Chancey (director and founder) (medieval strings, viols, pardessus de viole, early)
Links
"Engaging stage presence, backed by programs put together with exceptional imagination ... irresistible" - The Washington Post
"Hesperus never ceases to astonish." - Dirty Linen
Hesperus -- innovative, historically informed and multi-cultural -- specializes in fusions of historic and living traditions. Founded in 1979 and named for Venus and the West Wind, the five-member group comprises several ensembles with overlapping membership that perform three kinds of programs: Cultural portraits featuring early and traditional music from a single culture, crossover fusions of European medieval and Renaissance music with American traditional styles such as Appalachian, Cajun, vaudeville and the blues, and single-genre early music programs of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music.
Hesperus has toured nationally and internationally for more than two decades. Recently, the ensemble revisited the Misiones de los Chiquitos Festival in Bolivia and the Tage Alte Musik Festival in Regensberg, Germany. Hesperus has also made a five-week tour of the Far East for the United States Information Agency. For three seasons, Hesperus was a resident ensemble at the Carmel Bach Festival in Carmel, California, giving outreach concerts throughout the Monterey Peninsula. In the Washington, DC area, Hesperus continues to appear regularly at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History, where it was ensemble-in-residence from 1989 to 1996. Hesperus can be heard regularly on PRI, NPR, CNN, CBS' Nightwatch, the Voice of America, and the Canadian Broadcast System.