- Collaborative Projects -
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. Find new video under the media tab!
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! Pavorreal Sessions:
A stylistic collage of Scottish traditional ballads and original compositions ranging from steampunk revival, bluegrass, sea shanty, and medieval Iberian depicted on an eclectic collection of instruments ranging from the 15th century into the modern era.
Available for purchase on Bandcamp.
https://thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com/album/pavorreal-sessions
A stylistic collage of Scottish traditional ballads and original compositions ranging from steampunk revival, bluegrass, sea shanty, and medieval Iberian depicted on an eclectic collection of instruments ranging from the 15th century into the modern era.
Available for purchase on Bandcamp.
https://thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com/album/pavorreal-sessions
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.
Available for purchase on Bandcamp.
http://thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com
For physical copies, email [email protected].
A transatlantic tour of traditional music, including Celtic ballads of castles burning, American murder ballads, tales of Joan of Arc, and Appalachian love songs.
Available for purchase on Bandcamp.
http://thechivalrouscrickets.bandcamp.com
For physical copies, email [email protected].
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.oldruckus.org
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
