Curated by acclaimed bass-baritone Davóne Tines, What is Your Hand in This? will take audiences on a powerful journey through four centuries of songs, hymns, ballads, and newly commissioned works by Tines and Ruckus bassist Doug Balliett. As the nation reflects on the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, this program asks: How can this fragile American experiment hold? Can we find compassion for others? Can you find compassion for yourself? “Davóne Tines is changing what it means to be a classical singer” (The New Yorker).

Ruckus—”the world’s only period-instrument rock band” (San Francisco Classical Voice)—is a shapeshifting, collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to early music. Ruckus’s core is a continuo group: guitars, keyboards, cello, bassoon and bass. The NYC-based ensemble aims to fuse the early-music movement’s questing, creative spirit with the grit, groove, and jangle of American roots music.

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