Maeve Gilchrist | Copley Street | The Fretless (with special guest Madeleine Rogers) | Edwin Huizinga and William Coulter (Fire and Grace)
A string focused extravaganza of a night where we hear music from the world-class, pure-drop traditional sounds of Boston-based band, Copley Street (Joey Abarta, Nathan Gourley and Owen Marshall) next to Baroque fiddler extraordinaire, Edwin Huizinga and guitarist William Coulter play their jaw-dropping distillations of Vivaldi’s four seasons.
This evening will bring us the joy of Spring and the visceral excitement of Summer as we hear these two instruments cover an entire orchestra’s worth of texture, melody and soul. In the second half of the concert we bring back Canada’s award-winning quartet, The Fretless, this time joining forces with the stunning vocals of Madeleine Rogers. This pan-Canadian group is reinventing the meaning of string quartet and bringing the sounds of their respective string cultures into indie territory, garnering new audiences, new sounds and creating a whole new horizon. Pulling it all together, Rockport’s Artistic Director Maeve Gilchrist will bring her harp, poetry and context to each act to turn this whole evening into an unforgettable story of songs, tunes and concerti!