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our EP under our name "Chivalrous Crickets"released July 1, 2020!
Find us on streaming sites OR to support us massively and own the album, purchase for $10
on the digital music store, Bandcamp, which gives 70% of sales directly to the artists! BANDCAMP here:
thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com/album/the-chivalrous-crickets
For physical copies, please email chivalrouscrickets@gmail.com
(payment available through venmo or PayPal).
Due to COVID19 we were unable to finish recording our full length album, "No Pence to Spend" in the studio. We took these 5 tracks, which we edited virtually with Mark Dann Studios, to release independently. This EP features a representation of sounds we make from the Celtic and Americana traditions, as well as one original track. "No Pence to Spend" - with fingers crossed! - will be released sometime in 2021, and will feature all original tracks.
we also have some upcoming online shows in August and October!
Check out our SCHEDULE section below soon for details on how to watch!
Check out our SCHEDULE section below soon for details on how to watch!
about us
interweaving traditional and original music of the british isles, celtic nations, and appalachia
with ancient european art song
"ROOTS & BRANCHES"
We come from a background of pubs, classrooms, churches, living rooms, festival stages, concert halls
and a shared love of our American heritage from the Celtic nations and British lands.
Based in New York City, and playing anywhere the wind takes us,
we seek to reproduce historically conventional songs and tunes,
to write some of our own,
and to blur the boundaries between folk and early art music
by playing with timbres, colors, lyrics, and styles.
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The Chivalrous Crickets is an upcoming, genre-crossing folk band exploring the intersection between Appalachian, Old Time, traditional English and Celtic, and early European art music. The band's members, who all sing, play instruments, and arrange and compose for the group, come from backgrounds of folk and early classical music. Their skills and interests combine to form a unique sound centered on rich vocal harmonies, diverse timbral blends between modern and recreation historical instruments, and inventive, historically researched programs.
Endlessly in love with music’s timeless role as a global cultural networking envoy, the Crickets revel in discovering and illuminating direct ties between American songs’ and tunes’ roots in the old world by creating innovative medley-style arrangements of ancient, contemporary, and original repertoire.
Sisters Genevieve and Fiona grew up playing Irish music with their parents of the band Blackwater, based in Bethlehem, PA. In a city dedicated to the promotion of Celtic culture, they spent their youth step-dancing and going to sessions in pubs. Life took them in different directions during post-college years, but in 2018 they found themselves both living in New York, and jumped at the opportunity to form a band with plucked-instrument specialist Paul Morton. The band includes multi-instrumentalist swing members Ben Matus and Bradley King.
The group, now in its second year, has shows this season in Maine, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, West Virginia, Washington, and California. With a particular focus on thematic programing, the Crickets, in addition to standard-repertoire shows, have created specific educational projects around the legends and history of Robin Hood, The “Auld Alliance” (Scotland and France’s 13th-16thcentury common-interest treaty), the history of shipping, whaling, and sailing in New England, and a holiday program tracing the origins and transformation of Christmas carols across eight centuries.
FIONA (vocals, whistle, flutes, percussion)
https://www.fionagillespiesoprano.com
GENEVIEVE (fiddle, vocals)
PAUL (Baroque guitar, banjo, lute, theorbo, vocals, harmonica)
http://www.paulholmesmorton.com
BEN (dulcian/vocals/percussion)
BRADLEY (bass, cello, vocals, percussion)
We can play as a 3-piece (Fiona, Genevieve, Paul), 4-piece (Fiona, Genevieve, Paul, Ben/Bradley),
or 5-piece band depending on member availability, and venue preference/need.
Contact: gillespifi@gmail.com
Facebook: Chivalrous Crickets
Instagram: @chivalrouscrickets
Endlessly in love with music’s timeless role as a global cultural networking envoy, the Crickets revel in discovering and illuminating direct ties between American songs’ and tunes’ roots in the old world by creating innovative medley-style arrangements of ancient, contemporary, and original repertoire.
Sisters Genevieve and Fiona grew up playing Irish music with their parents of the band Blackwater, based in Bethlehem, PA. In a city dedicated to the promotion of Celtic culture, they spent their youth step-dancing and going to sessions in pubs. Life took them in different directions during post-college years, but in 2018 they found themselves both living in New York, and jumped at the opportunity to form a band with plucked-instrument specialist Paul Morton. The band includes multi-instrumentalist swing members Ben Matus and Bradley King.
The group, now in its second year, has shows this season in Maine, Pennsylvania, Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, West Virginia, Washington, and California. With a particular focus on thematic programing, the Crickets, in addition to standard-repertoire shows, have created specific educational projects around the legends and history of Robin Hood, The “Auld Alliance” (Scotland and France’s 13th-16thcentury common-interest treaty), the history of shipping, whaling, and sailing in New England, and a holiday program tracing the origins and transformation of Christmas carols across eight centuries.
FIONA (vocals, whistle, flutes, percussion)
https://www.fionagillespiesoprano.com
GENEVIEVE (fiddle, vocals)
PAUL (Baroque guitar, banjo, lute, theorbo, vocals, harmonica)
http://www.paulholmesmorton.com
BEN (dulcian/vocals/percussion)
BRADLEY (bass, cello, vocals, percussion)
We can play as a 3-piece (Fiona, Genevieve, Paul), 4-piece (Fiona, Genevieve, Paul, Ben/Bradley),
or 5-piece band depending on member availability, and venue preference/need.
Contact: gillespifi@gmail.com
Facebook: Chivalrous Crickets
Instagram: @chivalrouscrickets
The cricket, as described in the Medieval Bestiary, is "an animal that loves to sing, forgetting all else".
We often find ourselves sitting around a table in northern Manhattan for hours working on arrangements,
forgetting all else but the music and the friendship.
We often find ourselves sitting around a table in northern Manhattan for hours working on arrangements,
forgetting all else but the music and the friendship.
Schedule '19/'20
Live at the Gantries
Summer Music Festival presented by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | 7pm
FREE: http://kupferbergcenter.org/
Derby Folk Fest
Saturday October 3, 2020 - Derby, United Kingdom
LIVE STREAMING INFORMATION COMING SOON
Live at the Gantries
Summer Music Festival presented by the Kupferberg Center for the Arts, Queens College
Tuesday, August 11, 2020 | 7pm
FREE: http://kupferbergcenter.org/
Derby Folk Fest
Saturday October 3, 2020 - Derby, United Kingdom
LIVE STREAMING INFORMATION COMING SOON
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Daughter of France - (original - Fiona Gillespie)
Willow Garden (trad. - American)
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