Ayreheart

Music / Sound, Performance

Renaissance meets traditional roots meets contemporary folk, this is lute-driven music for modern folk, in a unique blend of lute with vocals, bass, colascione (a kind of bass lute), violin, guitar, and percussion.

Ayreheart, a progressive, renaissance-folk quartet founded by GRAMMY nominated lutenist Ronn McFarlane, restores the lute to its former glory – but in a modern context. With backgrounds in rock, folk and jazz, the members of Ayreheart bring fresh energy to old traditions.

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Concerts available throughout the known universe.

“…anyone impressed with the dexterity required by speed rock ought to see what Mr. McFarlane does when he flashes his fingers across the fretboard of a stout lute. Little wonder his performance received a standing ovation.” - The Wall Street Journal

“a contemporary folk group whose energized delivery breathes new life into music that just happens to have been written long ago” - Textura

“[Ayreheart’s] performance is at turns intimate, inviting, playful, wistful, melancholy, even menacing.” - Early Music America

“Here is music that is born of what has come but leads us into where we can go; old forms born anew and ever fresh.” - Robert Aubry Davis, Creator/Producer/Host of Millennium of Music