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The Spirites Consort

The Spirites Consort

About Me

The Spirites Consort is primarily known as a Renaissance band, though we have often branched out into different hybrids of jazz, folk and mainstream classical since the 1990s, especially in concert. The impetus for the band was innovation and improvisation on well-known folk and classical covers and to merge genres (cross-over). We are all seasoned players with many, many years of professional experience and the band has gone through some changes since its inception and is ever defining itself. Featured instruments include guitars, recorders, whistles, hammered dulcimer, double bass, violin, baritone violin and percussion.Musical educational background of our players includes Berklee, New England Conservatory, Boston Conservatory, Eastman School of Music, College of Saint Rose and DePaul Unviversity. “Spirites” is an olde English way of spelling “Spirits”.For more information on our individual performers and our concerts, visit our website by clicking here.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/21/2007
Band Website: lisewinne.com/spirites_consort.htm
Band Members: Lise Winne, Jeff Belding, Jim Lestrange, and Rick Eckberg. Other musicians include Brian Melick, Joe Davoli and Scott Petito.
Influences: We have been influenced by a lot of innovative and cross-over artists.
Sounds Like: It is perhaps difficult to pigeon-hole us, but we probably most resemble artists like The New World Renaissance Band, Cantiga, Loreena McKennit, Baltimore Consort, Blackmores Night, Ian Anderson, Pentangle, The Incredible String Band, vaguely like some of the Windham Hill artists… Hmmm, you let us know what you think…
Record Label: Lilac/Goldenrod Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

"Wingd With Hopes" CD offered through European record company

For our fans in Europe, you can purchase our Wing'd With Hopes CD through In and Out Records very soon at www.inandout.at. Euros accepted, so it should be easier for you to purchase the album!   ...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:31:00 PST

update & new MYSPACE site

It seems we failed to mention that our singer, Lise, has a new MYSPACE site. It has been up for awhile, but I'm sure she will be open to some new friends. The URL to that site is: http://www.myspace....
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:04:00 PST

html comments

We had to disable HTML comments. Sorry about that. But we still do want to hear from you, so feel free to leave other kinds of comments! There are a lot of you on our site now and MYSPACE suggested th...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:17:00 PST

Posting some new songs, taking away others

We have posted some new songs & taken some others out. The last song, "Tell Me True Love" is a very long song & takes up a lot of MP3 space, so we decided to do a fade-out. It does not appear ...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:29:00 PST

downloadable tunes are up!

Hi Friends! You can now download tunes from Tradebit at: http://www.tradebit.com/filedetail.php/2230825. I-Tunes also has our tunes for downloading. You can find all of the downloading options&nb...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:11:00 PST

in top selling Renaissance albums at CD Baby!!

Hey everyone! Just thought you'd like to know that the Wing'd With Hopes album (which has 3 of the tracks posted here on our MYSPACE) is one of CD Baby's top selling Renaissance albums! Just go h...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:05:00 PST

SirAnthony, our knight in shining armor!

SirAnthony, a knight (really! Look him up!) from Texas, tripped our counter to 1,000 friends! We appreciate having so many friends & hopefully will have I-tunes up here soon (I guess it takes tim...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 11:19:00 PST

Live performances, downloads & recording

Some of you have inquired as to where we are playing. A few have asked if we will be performing at the New York Renaissance Faire. Our answer is that we are in the midst of trying to complete several ...
Posted by The Spirites Consort on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST