The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints - Cambridge MA

Tiny Glass Tavern presents:
The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints

Inscrutable and clarion, violent and tranquil, mad and sane, worldly and hermetic, carnal and chaste, temporal and astral... far from being unrelatable, the arcane but very human lives of the ancient Christian saints are rife in wild legends and fascinating factual past with which to orient ourselves in the constellation of Western history and culture. 

Tiny Glass Tavern, mid-Atlantic area Celtic folk band The Chivalrous Crickets, and New York-based composer, poet, and bassist Doug Balliett join forces to present "The Hagiography: A Musical Pilgrimage through the Lives of the Saints". Begun in the fall of 2020, this project presents a corpus of songs written throughout the pandemic for weekly mass at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan where Doug Balliett is composer-in-residence, and expanded upon now with additional material by Fiona Gillespie, Adam Simon, and Paul Holmes Morton. 

Richly researched and vividly produced, The Hagiography illuminates the real and mythologized lives of Saints James, George, Margaret, Michael, Nicolas, Patrick, Genevieve, Brigit, Valentine, Sebastian, Joseph the Hymnographer, Cecilia, Joan of Arc, and more through original songs influenced by folk, pop, baroque, and medieval music.

Musicians:

Fiona Gillespie, soprano, whistle

Paul Holmes Morton, theorbo, banjo, baroque guitar, guitar

Sophie Michaux, mezzo-soprano

Adam Simon, mandolin, guitar, voice

Doug Balliett, bass, viola da gamba

Will Copeland, violin

General admission $20, Student/Low income/Starving Artist $10

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