Strawberry Fields: The Music of G.F. Handel and Ignatious Sancho

Ruckus is joined by Emi Ferguson, flute, and Rachel Ellen Wong, violin.

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 onwards by the unrelenting groove of the music.

Ruckus is a shapeshifting, collaborative Baroque ensemble that’s been described as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band.” The NYC-based ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement’s questing, creative spirit with the grit, groove and jangle of American roots music, creating a sound that is “achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next.” (New York Times)