Trailblazing Massachusetts vocal quartet Windborne share folk songs that span continents and cultures.
American vocal quartet Windborne are touring the UK from mid-January to February 2025. They will share songs from their new album, To Warm The Winter Hearth.
Windborne are specialists in close harmony singing shifting effortlessly between different styles of traditional music. Their songs span many continents and cultures, but they remain deeply rooted in American folk singing traditions. Their repertoire includes mid-winter folk songs from America, Europe and the UK and performances are mostly in English with occasional folk songs in other languages such as Lithuanian and also Occitan.
With a twenty-year background studying polyphonic music around the world, Lauren Breunig, Jeremy Carter-Gordon, Lynn Rowan, and Will Rowan effortlessly shift between different styles of music on a journey that spans continents and centuries, illuminating and expanding on the profound power and variation of the human voice.
For centuries, communities have gathered at this coldest time of the year to sing, celebrate and share the stories of the past as Windborne share in their own words,
“We feel particularly drawn towards the music that connects us to friends, community, and nature. This album is a collection of songs that represent some of the folklore and rituals that are meaningful to us. We are deeply grateful to the tradition-bearers who came before us – the countless known and unknown people who sang these songs in their homes and in pubs, down country lanes, and on concert stages – they gave us the customs that we hold dear today.”
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