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we're wrapping up our Kickstarter for our debut album,
"No Pence to Spend" on January 17. We've made $3500 of our $3000 goal. Thank you so much to EVERYONE who donated!
"No Pence to Spend" will be released Summer, 2020
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
House Concert, an evening overlooking Manhattan
September 6, 2019 -Apt 32D 100 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)
Hosted by Eleanor Alper
8pm
Wine & Cheese served
Craignair Inn
Saturday, October 5, 2019 - South Thomaston, Maine
8pm
Benefit Concert with Blackwater and Poor Man's Gambit
Serving at the Crossroads
September 16, 2019 - Cetronia Fire Company Social Hall, Allentown, PA
8pm
Crickets at Christmas
Godfrey Daniel's - Folk Listening Club - 7 E. 4th St. Bethlehem, PA
Friday, December 20, 2019
8pm / Tickets: www.godfreydaniels.org/events/
Zoetropolis Cinemas Stillhouse - 112 N. Water St. Lancaster, PA
Saturday, December 21, 2019
8pm / $15 / www.zoetropolis.com/music-events-2/
Tam Lin, a folk-rock cantata
hosted by Metropolis Ensemble
with members of Makaris, Alkemie & Friends
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 1 Rivington, New York, NY
7pm - Tickets: www.metropolisensemble.org
Cantina Cumbancha
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 232 N. 12th St, Brooklyn, NY
8pm/$12/https://www.lacumbanchanyc.com/events
St. Patrick's Day Show with friends from medieval ensemble ALKEMIE
Sunday, March 15, 2020 - The Lethe Lounge: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Time & RSVP TBA!
Folktale Winery - guest band for folk/Baroque duo Fire and Grace
Sunday, May 10, 2020 - 8940 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Afternoon - Details TBA!
Historic Fayetteville Theater
Sunday, August 2, 2020 - Fayetteville, WV
Details TBA!
Carnegie Hall West Virginia
Monday, August 3, 2020 - Lewisburg, WV
Details TBA!
Victory Chimes 3-Mast Schooner Cruise - songs of navigation, sailing, whaling, and water
August 21-24th - on-board entertainment
for booking: https://www.victorychimes.com/2020adventures
House Concert, an evening overlooking Manhattan
September 6, 2019 -Apt 32D 100 Jay St. Brooklyn, NY (DUMBO)
Hosted by Eleanor Alper
8pm
Wine & Cheese served
Craignair Inn
Saturday, October 5, 2019 - South Thomaston, Maine
8pm
Benefit Concert with Blackwater and Poor Man's Gambit
Serving at the Crossroads
September 16, 2019 - Cetronia Fire Company Social Hall, Allentown, PA
8pm
Crickets at Christmas
Godfrey Daniel's - Folk Listening Club - 7 E. 4th St. Bethlehem, PA
Friday, December 20, 2019
8pm / Tickets: www.godfreydaniels.org/events/
Zoetropolis Cinemas Stillhouse - 112 N. Water St. Lancaster, PA
Saturday, December 21, 2019
8pm / $15 / www.zoetropolis.com/music-events-2/
Tam Lin, a folk-rock cantata
hosted by Metropolis Ensemble
with members of Makaris, Alkemie & Friends
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 1 Rivington, New York, NY
7pm - Tickets: www.metropolisensemble.org
Cantina Cumbancha
Thursday, January 23, 2020 - 232 N. 12th St, Brooklyn, NY
8pm/$12/https://www.lacumbanchanyc.com/events
St. Patrick's Day Show with friends from medieval ensemble ALKEMIE
Sunday, March 15, 2020 - The Lethe Lounge: Upper West Side, Manhattan
Time & RSVP TBA!
Folktale Winery - guest band for folk/Baroque duo Fire and Grace
Sunday, May 10, 2020 - 8940 Carmel Valley Road, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA
Afternoon - Details TBA!
Historic Fayetteville Theater
Sunday, August 2, 2020 - Fayetteville, WV
Details TBA!
Carnegie Hall West Virginia
Monday, August 3, 2020 - Lewisburg, WV
Details TBA!
Victory Chimes 3-Mast Schooner Cruise - songs of navigation, sailing, whaling, and water
August 21-24th - on-board entertainment
for booking: https://www.victorychimes.com/2020adventures
WATCH
LISTEN
Daughter of France - (original - Fiona Gillespie)
Willow Garden (trad. - American)
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