Arizona Early Music and the Tucson Desert Song Festival present Davóne Tines, bass-baritone & Ruckus Early Music
Davóne Tines is a pathbreaking artist whose work encompasses a diverse repertoire, ranging from early music to new commissions by leading composers, while exploring the social issues of today. A creator, curator, and performer at the intersection of many histories, cultures, and aesthetics, he is engaged in work that blends opera, art song, spirituals, contemporary classical, gospel, and protest songs as a means to tell a deeply personal story of perseverance connecting to all of humanity. Tines is Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Artist-in-Residence and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale’s first-ever Creative Partner. He is Musical America’s 2022 Vocalist of the Year, a winner of the 2020 Sphinx Medal of Excellence, and the recipient of the 2018 Emerging Artists Award from Lincoln Center. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and Harvard University.
Ruckus 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.
Program: What is Your Hand in This?
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?”
