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The Newberry Consort, an early-music, original-instrument chamber ensemble, is a constituent of the Newberry Library's Center for Public Programs. The Consort brings early music to the general public through performances, recordings, and related educational activities. The Consort draws on the Library's holdings in the music of the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries, using original sources and scholarly editions as the bases for its performances. The Consort provides both an important means of public outreach and a window on the Newberry Library's rich music collections. - From official website .

The Clemencic Consort is an early-music ensemble from Austria comprised of international artists under the direction of René Clemencic. It performs in varying combinations of voices and instruments, depending on the programme. Singers and instrumentalists from around the world have made it their task to interpret music from the Middle Ages to the Baroque period on historical instruments. They set great store on lively authenticity, but at the same time they consciously avoid "the wagging finger". The programmes are structured in such a way that they convey a colourful overall impression of the respective period. Since 1966 René Clemencic has...

The famous reggae band from Marseille (France) was born in 1998 by the meeting of seven explosive musicians fascinated by the ROOTS REGGAE MUSIC. It's by following the greatest and missing jamaïcan singers' wakes that SONS OF GAIA can today pay them a really fine tribute. Inspired by reggae roots artists from the 70's / 80's such as Augustus Pablo, Denis Brown, Mutabaruka, Count Ossie, SONS OF GAÏA try to carry on the eternal peace message of reggae music. Lifting rythms, the grounation NYABINGHI offers an hypnotic atmosphere, sweetly mixed up with voices, deep bass, drum, brass section and the...