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'What do a hurdy gurdy, a bass clarinet, a set of bagpipes, and Norwegian lyrics add up to? A rocking good time is the answer.'
Audience member's blog, Middleton, NS
Ensemble Polaris is a unique group founded to explore the 'idea of North' in music. Group members are expert performers from a variety of musical traditions and backgrounds. The resulting music has an eclectic palette of musical influences, colours, and techniques - early, folk, Klezmer, Hot Club of Paris, middle Eastern and southeast Asian, traditional Scandinavian, Celtic, Cape Breton, eastern European, classical, improvisatory, and avant-garde. It defies classification!
Katherine Hill, voice, violin, nyckelharpa; Margaret Gay, 'cello; Colin Savage, clarinet, bass clarinet, recorders; Ben Grossman, hurdy gurdy; Alison Melville, flutes, recorders, seljefløyte; Kirk Elliott, harp, bagpipes, accordion, violin, psaltery, etc.; Marco Cera, guitar; Debashis Sinha, percussion.
Photo Credit: Richelle Forsey