BELLS & MOTLEY PROGRAMS
for SCHOOLS, LIBRARIES, & PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS
~ Quick Links ~
About the Artists
~ ARTIST BIOGRAPHY/RESUME printable pdf
Performances, Workshops, Concerts, and Integrated Residency Programs
~ MEDIEVAL and RENAISSANCE
- Medieval & Renaissance Workshops & Residencies for schools 14-pg. printable pdf; Program List
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"Bells & Motley Celtic Consort: Medieval Music and Minstrelsy" Public concerts; High School/College Humanities Programs link
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"Musical Instrument Mysteries:
Hurdy-Gurdies, Bagpipes, Rommelpots, Lutes, & Harps" Public concerts printable pdf
- Quadricentennial Celebration of French and Dutch Music, Instruments, and Dance Traditions
page link
- "The Tale of Yanek & Heliotrope: A Medieval Journey" Musical theater performances for all ages, set in Medieval France, brought to life with rare period instruments
- Music, Dance, Theatre, Storytelling
- Fine Arts & Art History Workshops
- Living History Faires; Renaissance and Medieval Festivals
Our newest Integrated Multi-Arts Programs:
- "Sculpted Sound: From Art to Wood to Music" Exhibit/Concert/Salon
page link
- "Carmina Burana Pageant" - We have written an exciting new musical theater script for our Medieval arts-in-education residencies, going back to the oldest original Medieval sources, music, and instruments. Many interactive options for student engagement: writing, acting, singing, instrumental performance.
~ AMERICAN HERITAGE, ERIE CANAL, and COLONIAL CULTURE
- Colonial Conviviality: Early American Cultural Traditions page, photo link
- "15 Years on the Erie Canal" Participatory Musical Theater Performance, Integrated Workshops page, photo link
- NYS Erie Canal Music, Dance, Theatre Residencies page, photo link
- Pennsylvania Canal Era Heritage Music, Dances, Instruments
~ MULTICULTURAL HERITAGE; AROUND THE WORLD with ARTS, CULTURE, STORYTELLING
Library Summer Reading Programs:
One World, Many Stories!
- "Bawshou & the Water Dragon" Traditional Chinese Musical Pageantry and Storytelling printable pdf
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The Many Cultures Along the Canal: A Double-Treasure Program Special!
Participatory Musical Theater "15 Years on the Erie Canal Folk Fun Operetta" PLUS "Music & Instruments of Many Cultures Along the Erie Canal" printable pdf
- French Music, Instruments, & Dance Traditions: Celebrating Cultural Heritage page, photo link
- Dutch Music, Instruments, & Dance Traditions: Celebrating Cultural Heritage page, photo link
- "Music, World Instruments, & The Science of Sound" pdf
- Music, Dance, Theatre, Storytelling
- Fine Arts & Art History
- Living History Faires & Festivals
- FIND ADDITIONAL PROGRAMS listed below under "Long Ago & Far Away"
- CUSTOM RESIDENCIES and NEW PROGRAM COMMISSIONS WELCOMED
~ "LONG AGO & FAR AWAY" PERFORMANCES
Historic Storytelling & Musical Theatre, and Concerts for Children & Families
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Double Treasure participatory storytelling + concert program:
"Stone Soup" +"The Hurdy Gurdy Children's Concert" printable pdf
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"The Ant & the Grasshopper, Aesop's Fabled Fiddler"
Our newest Sing-along, Play-long, Dance-along Operetta is highly interactive for all Ages
printable pdf
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Double Treasure participatory storytelling + concert program:
"The Boy Who Went to Visit the North Wind" and
"Who Has Heard the Wind" printable pdf
PERFORMANCES WITH WORKSHOP and EXTENDED RESIDENCY OPTIONS:
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"Bawshou & the Water Dragon" Musical Folktelling of China Performance, with Creative-Expressive Maskmaking, Musicmaking, and Dragon Dance Workshop options printable pdf
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Get a Clue/Get a Cue On the Erie Canal with participatory
"15 Miles on the Erie Canal Folk Fun Operetta" printable pdf
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"The Tale of Yanek & Heliotrope: A Medieval Journey" An original musical theater piece, set in France, with all manner of French instruments (hurdy gurdy, French bombarde, flutet et tamborin), with more French early music, instruments, and dance workshop options printable pdf
~ BARDIC CHAMBER PERFORMANCES Musical Storytelling for Older Audiences:
- "Tristan & Iseult: A Harper's Tale" page link
- "Beowulf" Bardic Performance and Workshop
~ MUSEUMS & HISTORIC SITES
Concerts of Historic Music, Art-as-Document Photography Exhibitions, and more page link
- NYS Quadricentennial Celebration Music & Dance Traditions, Dutch/French page link
- "Bards, Bagpipes, & Rhymers"
- "Terpsichore" Early Music for the
Muse of Dance
- "Shakespeare's Garden: Flowers, Birdsong, & Fountains"
- Thematic concerts for All Seasons, All Holidays
- Workshop menu- historic music, dance, crafts
~ HISTORIC DANCE Workshops & Events
- Shakespearean Renaissance Dances
- French Traditional & Renaissance Dances
- Dances of the British Isles
- Seasonal & Ceremonial Dances
- Jane Austen Historic Ball page link
- Dickens Victorian "Fezziwig's Ball"
- NYS Heritage, Erie Canal Traditions
- American Heritage Traditions
- International Heritage Traditions
- Quadricentennial Celebration Dances page link
~ HOLIDAY CONCERTS & PAGEANTS
Important Note: This index is a work in progress ---
There are many other programs we additionally offer, so please ask us for the complete list.
Thanks! Photos will be added soon.
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