World Chamber Music
Greg
Snedeker: cello
Michael Nix: Banjar, Guitar,
Mandolin Chris Devine: Violin,
Mandolin
......Warmth, intimacy
and funky elegance... Somehow, Tango and Django, jazz and rag,
Mozart and Bossa Nova all coalesce into a mutually admiring,
mad-teaparty of plucked, picked, struck, and scraped sounds completely
at home with one another.
Joseph Marcello Thursday, July 17, 2008, The Recorder, Greenfield, MA
The Pioneer Consort
performs composed and
improvised chamber music for Violin, Cello, Guitar, Mandolin,
and the Banjar--a seven string classical banjo. Their programs
explore unique and colorful arrangements of traditional classical
repertoire, Argentine Tango, Brazilian Choro, Classical Neapolitan
Mandolin music, American Banjo music, jazz, and multi-genre original
compositions with works by Haydn, Mozart, Piazolla, Gershwin,
Abreu, O'Carolan, and Nix.