One of Australia’s leading acoustic viola da gambists, Jenny Eriksson proudly announces the launch of Elysian Fields, a band featuring the electric viola da gamba alongside other modern instruments in the improvised music scene. Eriksson is known for her inventiveness and for finding new means of expression for her specialist instrument the viola da gamba which…
The Renaissance Players directed by Winsome Evans presents the 35th Runnymede Pop Festival in October 2013. The plucked, blown, bowed, keyboard and percussion instruments will include harp, psaltery, mandora, gittern, ud, diwan saz, sinfonye, rebecs, vielles, shawms, lur, mute cornett, gemshorns, whistles, portative organ, tapans, dairehs, darabukka, castanets, tambourines, zils and handbells. After many months preparing…
There are no fat ladies and the show is nowhere near over. In fact, this show has just begun, with the August launch of the eagerly anticipated CD Lady Sings the Viol. Gamba player Jenny Eriksson founder and Music Director of the gamba ensembleThe Marais Project is the anchor behind this latest venture in which she has gathered…