Cinnamon Bird w/ Jane Hall
When: - PST
Tickets: $18. Students / seniors: $10. Kids get in free! (but be sure to reserve spots for your kids when you purchase advance tickets)
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After their morning show for families, Cinnamon Bird and Jane Hall return with a full-length concert for adults. School-aged kids are welcome to come for free if they don’t mind sitting for formal concerts.
Shulamit Kleinerman (l) and Ruthie Dornfeld (r)
Crossing boundaries, Cinnamon Bird unites early music with folk traditions to create a fresh, collaborative style. Join Ruthie Dornfeld and Shulamit Kleinerman as they journey through 800 years of fiddle music — from medieval melodies on matched vielles and percussion to traditional tunes from France, England, Appalachia, and Scandinavia on baroque and modern violins. The program also includes some of Ruthie’s own beautiful new double-vielle compositions, completed with the support of an Artist Trust GAP grant. Arabic percussionist Jane Hall joins in to help create the sound of a time when some of the best things in Europe came from further east — like medieval fiddles, and cinnamon.
Seattle-based fiddler Ruthie Dornfeld is fluent in a wide range of styles, from Celtic and old-time to Scandinavian and Eastern European. She has performed and taught for 30 years throughout the U.S. and abroad, from the Manaus Operahouse in the Brazilian Amazon to the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland. Originally from Oregon, Ruthie spent 15 years in New England, where she played with the twin-fiddle stringband The Poodles, was a mainstay on the contradance circuit, and commuted to Europe to play with The American Cafe Orchestra. Since 1996 she’s been back in the Pacific Northwest, where she teaches and, besides playing with Cinnamon Bird, performs with guitarist John Miller and with French cabaret band Rouge when not on the road with her many musical cohorts.
Jane Hall
Shulamit Kleinerman plays vielle with the medieval fiddle duo Cinnamon Bird and renaissance violin with the Elizabethan band Plaine & Easie, which recently won both the Early Music America Medieval and Renaissance Music Competition and its Audience Prize. Her 2008 CD of seventeenth-century English country dances in original duo arrangements, New New Nothing, was produced with an artist residency at Jack Straw Productions. Shula writes and lectures about music history, maintains a full private studio of modern violin and early-instrument students, and teaches classes in historical arts and early music performance for school-aged children.
Jane Hall has been studying and performing Arabic percussion for many years in a variety of settings world-wide. Performing in musical traditions from Ottoman Turkey to classical Egypt, from the Sufi poets of early Persia to modern chamber pop, she plays many types of frame drums, including the Egyptian tambourine, Turkish and Moroccan bendir, def, and the goblet-shaped drums known sometimes as darabuka.
