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Lutenist, theorbist, banjoist, guitarist, lyricist, composer, arranger, vocalist, historical archeologist, soloist, chamber musician; the music of Paul Holmes Morton is defined less by genre than by a fascination with history, a cultivation of creativity, and a belief that music once born does not die or grow old. With a technical pallet of colors ranging from the
Florentine Camerata to modern Americana, Paul follows the thread of resonant evolution, his interpretations and performances stained with the resin left by countless musics present and not yet passed. |
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Disordering the Attic.
'Disordering the Attic' is Fiona's duo with Paul Holmes Morton (guitars, theorbo, banjo, dulcimer). Hailing from Classically-trained and traditional music backgrounds, the duo presents intimate concerts and house shows combining Baroque, 20th and 21st-century art song (re-scored for plucked instruments), American and Celtic folk, popular, and original music.
'Disordering the Attic' is Fiona's duo with Paul Holmes Morton (guitars, theorbo, banjo, dulcimer). Hailing from Classically-trained and traditional music backgrounds, the duo presents intimate concerts and house shows combining Baroque, 20th and 21st-century art song (re-scored for plucked instruments), American and Celtic folk, popular, and original music.
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Ruckus.
Ruckus is a new baroque band with a fresh, visceral approach to early music. The ensemble's debut earned widespread critical acclaim: "achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next" (The New York Times), and "superb" (Opera News). Ruckus' core members form a continuo group, the baroque equivalent of a rhythm section: guitars, keyboards, cello, bassoon and bass. The ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement's questioningly creative spirit with the grit, groove and jangle of American roots music, creating a unique sound of "rough-edged intensity" (The New Yorker). www.ruckusearlymusic.org 
---------------------//---------------------- New from Flowers of the Rhododendron: Debut studio EP released! 
Available on all streaming services, to support the artists who labored so hard, purchase at flowersoftherhododendron.bandcamp.com
Jesses for Future Wooden Skies, a surrealist folk still life of past daydreams.
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The Chivalrous Crickets.
The cricket, as described in the Medieval Bestiary, is "an animal that loves to sing, forgetting all else". A cross pollination between contemporary folk and its ancestral heritage in the Baroque, the Chivalrous Crickets interweave traditional music of the British isles, Celtic nations, and Appalachia with ancient european court song. Chivalrous programs are presented through research, arrangement, and composition to tell stories of history through historical song. www.chivalrouscrickets.com. --------------------//-------------------- New Release: A Chivalrous Cricketmas - volume 1 of at least 2 of traditional songs and tunes freshly interpreted along with new compositions celebrating the joys and merriments of Christmas, Saturnalia, and Winter himself. Enjoy fiddle airs, gospel harmonies, French lute songs, banjos, theorbos, bagpipes, and much more! https://thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com/album/a-chivalrous-cricketmas 
Debut Studio EP: A transatlantic tour of traditional music, including Celtic ballads of castles burning, American murder ballads, tales of Joan of Arc, and Appalachian love songs.
Email [email protected] to request physical CD's, for digital download go to thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com. Available on all streaming services, however please support if you're able by purchasing CD's or digital album.
Flowers of the Rhododendron.
In sibling collaboration, Flowers of the Rhododendron is a distillation of the lyrical histories imbedded in the paintings of Sarah McRae Morton both fantastic and autobiographic. mcraemorton.com |
New Video! Prelude and Allemande by Charles Hurel, 1675 Paris.
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Lyk as the dum Solsequium with Fiona Gillespie, for more lute songs subscribe to Paul Holmes Morton on Youtube or visit the Media page.
- Recent and Upcoming Performances -
Keep. Making. Art.
Keep. Making. Art.
2022
2/3 - Ruckus with Emi Ferguson @7:30 PM Philadelphia, PA
Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/emi-ferguson-ruckus/
3/18 & 20 - J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata presented by Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
Visit BCOC's website for times and tickets
https://www.bcocolorado.org/tickets/index.php
2021
Disordering the Attic: music for theorbo and voice from Strozzi, Poulenc, Kurt Weil, Schubert, Balliet, and more.
6/11 Nativity Cathedral, Bethlehem, PA https://livestream.com/nativitycathedral/events/9692392
The Little Opera Theatre of NY: Monteverdi and other treasures from the Seicento
6/4 New York, NY. https://www.musae.me/lotny/experiences/985/monteverdi-other
Bravi Tutti, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado: a collection of Vivialdi, Handel, O'Carolan, and a solo theorbo performance of Robert de Visee!
5/21 Limited audience and live streamed, visit bcocolorado.org.
EMA Showcase: Beneath a Tree: so pleased to join my friends Gail Hernandez Rosa and Dan Turkos to take part in the EMA young artist showcase playing music from the Italian Baroque and Scottish pubs.
5/21 premiere, visit https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/resources/young-performers-festival/emerging-artists-showcase-app/
Ruckus at Caramoor: a performance of 'Fly the Coop', Bach flute sonatas with Emi Ferguson.
4/25 Katonah, NY visit caramoor.org
2020
A Day in Paris, 1743 with Mercury Chamber Orchestra: performances with Houston based ensemble.
11/21 Live streamed performance at 8 pm. Houston, TX www.mercuryhouston.org
Ruckus with John Taylor Ward: an exploration of American music from 18th/19th century New England.
9/20 at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Tam Lin, a folk rock cantata by Fiona Gillespie and Elliot Cole
1/3 New York, NY
Dido and Aeneas with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
1/12 Denver, CO
Music of Barbara Strozzi with Sophie Michaux and Benjamin Katz
2/7 St. Paul's Cathedral. Boston, MA
3/1 Annecy, France
3/3 Venice, Italy
Bach and Marais with Mercury Baroque
4/2; 4/4; 4/5 Houston, TX
Angel's Bone: An opera by Du Yun with LA Opera
5/1; 5/3 Los Angeles, CA
Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
5/14-5/17 Denver, CO
Spoleto Chamber Festival
5/31-6/7 Charleston, SC
Scragg Mountain Music Residency
6/21-28 Vermont
Ruckus Residency
6/29-7/3 Vermont
Chivalrous Crickets
8/2 Fayette Theater, Fayetteville, WV
2019
Spoleto Chamber Music Festival
5/30-6/8 Charleston, SC
Vivaldi Seasons at the National Cathedral
9/28 Washington D.C.
Angels Bone, an Opera by Du Yun.
10/18,19 Beijing
Bach Flute Sonatas with Ruckus and Emi Ferguson
11/17 Music Before 1800. New York, NY
A Mexican Baroque Christmas, Mercury Baroque Ensemble
12/7 Houston, TX
Christmas with the Chivalrous Crickets
12/20 Godfrey Daniel's. Bethlehem, PA
12/21 Zoetropolis. Lancaster, PA
Christmas at the National Cathedral
12/15 Washington D.C.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an opera by Doug Balliet
12/30 New York, NY
2018
Chivalrous Crickets: The French Connection: songs exploring the historical relationship between Scotland and France.
10/13 Church of the Nativity. Bethlehem, PA
10/14 Trinity Lutheran Concert Series. Perkasie, PA
Angel's Bone: An opera by Du Yun.
11/11 Hong Kong.
Mercury Baroque: A French Baroque Christmas in Houston, TX
11/29- 7:30 MATCH Gallery
12/1- 2:30 Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
12/1- 6:30 Museum of Fine Arts Houston
12/1- 8:30 Museum of Fine Arts Houston
12/2- 7:00 Dosey Doe
2/3 - Ruckus with Emi Ferguson @7:30 PM Philadelphia, PA
Presented by Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
https://www.pcmsconcerts.org/concerts/emi-ferguson-ruckus/
3/18 & 20 - J.S. Bach's Coffee Cantata presented by Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
Visit BCOC's website for times and tickets
https://www.bcocolorado.org/tickets/index.php
2021
Disordering the Attic: music for theorbo and voice from Strozzi, Poulenc, Kurt Weil, Schubert, Balliet, and more.
6/11 Nativity Cathedral, Bethlehem, PA https://livestream.com/nativitycathedral/events/9692392
The Little Opera Theatre of NY: Monteverdi and other treasures from the Seicento
6/4 New York, NY. https://www.musae.me/lotny/experiences/985/monteverdi-other
Bravi Tutti, Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado: a collection of Vivialdi, Handel, O'Carolan, and a solo theorbo performance of Robert de Visee!
5/21 Limited audience and live streamed, visit bcocolorado.org.
EMA Showcase: Beneath a Tree: so pleased to join my friends Gail Hernandez Rosa and Dan Turkos to take part in the EMA young artist showcase playing music from the Italian Baroque and Scottish pubs.
5/21 premiere, visit https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/resources/young-performers-festival/emerging-artists-showcase-app/
Ruckus at Caramoor: a performance of 'Fly the Coop', Bach flute sonatas with Emi Ferguson.
4/25 Katonah, NY visit caramoor.org
2020
A Day in Paris, 1743 with Mercury Chamber Orchestra: performances with Houston based ensemble.
11/21 Live streamed performance at 8 pm. Houston, TX www.mercuryhouston.org
Ruckus with John Taylor Ward: an exploration of American music from 18th/19th century New England.
9/20 at the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
Tam Lin, a folk rock cantata by Fiona Gillespie and Elliot Cole
1/3 New York, NY
Dido and Aeneas with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
1/12 Denver, CO
Music of Barbara Strozzi with Sophie Michaux and Benjamin Katz
2/7 St. Paul's Cathedral. Boston, MA
3/1 Annecy, France
3/3 Venice, Italy
Bach and Marais with Mercury Baroque
4/2; 4/4; 4/5 Houston, TX
Angel's Bone: An opera by Du Yun with LA Opera
5/1; 5/3 Los Angeles, CA
Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Baroque Chamber Orchestra of Colorado
5/14-5/17 Denver, CO
Spoleto Chamber Festival
5/31-6/7 Charleston, SC
Scragg Mountain Music Residency
6/21-28 Vermont
Ruckus Residency
6/29-7/3 Vermont
Chivalrous Crickets
8/2 Fayette Theater, Fayetteville, WV
2019
Spoleto Chamber Music Festival
5/30-6/8 Charleston, SC
Vivaldi Seasons at the National Cathedral
9/28 Washington D.C.
Angels Bone, an Opera by Du Yun.
10/18,19 Beijing
Bach Flute Sonatas with Ruckus and Emi Ferguson
11/17 Music Before 1800. New York, NY
A Mexican Baroque Christmas, Mercury Baroque Ensemble
12/7 Houston, TX
Christmas with the Chivalrous Crickets
12/20 Godfrey Daniel's. Bethlehem, PA
12/21 Zoetropolis. Lancaster, PA
Christmas at the National Cathedral
12/15 Washington D.C.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an opera by Doug Balliet
12/30 New York, NY
2018
Chivalrous Crickets: The French Connection: songs exploring the historical relationship between Scotland and France.
10/13 Church of the Nativity. Bethlehem, PA
10/14 Trinity Lutheran Concert Series. Perkasie, PA
Angel's Bone: An opera by Du Yun.
11/11 Hong Kong.
Mercury Baroque: A French Baroque Christmas in Houston, TX
11/29- 7:30 MATCH Gallery
12/1- 2:30 Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church
12/1- 6:30 Museum of Fine Arts Houston
12/1- 8:30 Museum of Fine Arts Houston
12/2- 7:00 Dosey Doe