Back by popular demand:  RUCKUS featuring EMI FERGUSON & RACHELL ELLEN WONG

Sunday, February 22, 3 PM

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Strawberry Fields: Handel, Sancho, and English Country Dance

Emi Ferguson, flute

Rachell Ellen Wong, violin soloist

RUCKUS:

    Elliot Figg, harpsichord

    Evan Premo, bass

    Anthony Albrecht, cello (appears courtesy of The Bowerbird Collective)

    Paul Holmes Morton, guitar

    Dušan Balarin, guitar and lute

    Clay Zeller-Townson, bassoon and percussion

While George Frideric Handel and Ignatius Sancho never met each other, they inhabited the same world, and shared one thing for certain: the transcendent joy that comes from a life of music and dance with good company. And if there is one thing that encapsulates the joy of togetherness in 18th-century England it was the English Country Dance. Sweating, laughing, spinning, holding hands…. propelled onward by the unrelenting groove of the music.

PROGRAM

(PLAYED WITHOUT INTERMISSION)

Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780)

         Lady Mary Montagu’s Reel - Culford Heath Camp - Ruffs and Rhees

          From The 12 Country Dances for the Year 1779

G. F. Handel (1685-1759)

       Trio in G, op. 5 # 4

       Tempo Ordinario - Allegro - Passacaille - Gigue - Minuett

Sancho: Air - Bushy Park - Lord Dalkeith’s Reel

Handel: Trio in E Minor, op. 5 #3

       Andante - Allegro - Sarabande - Allemande - Rondeau - Gavotte

Sancho: Royal Bishop -  Lindrindod Lasses - Strawberries and Cream

Handel: Trio in D Major, op. 5 #2

       Largo (B minor trio) - Adagio - Allegro - Musette - Allegro - Musette - Marche - Gavotte

Sancho: Duchess of Devonshire’s Reel - Trip to Dillington  - All of One Mind - Mungo’s Delight - Lady Mary Montagu’s Reel

This concert will be held at the Westport Point United Methodist Church, located at 1912 Main Road, Westport Point, Massachusetts.

Directions to the church are on our website.

TICKETS ARE $40 ADULTS   |   $20 STUDENTS