Album release in May

Good news.. the album is finally nearing completion! Everyone has been busy recording in the studio on their own time, and the tracks are coming out really nice. Over the next few weeks we'll be wrapping up the recording and then it's mixing and mastering. Rumour has it that Adrian Dolan of The Bills will be assisting with the final mix and doing the mastering for us.

We're tentatively planning a CD release show on May 18th, the day before our performances on Mayne Island. Visit the Banquo website or our MySpace profile to keep up to date.

We've been working on some new repertoire lately, and it's all sounding very good. One song in particular, "E, Dame Jolie", a 12th century French love song, is sounding unlike anything we've ever truly done.. sound like an early music consort in a classical sense. The arrangement so far is voice, hurdy-gurdy, harp, recorder, violin and light percussion. :-)