Ruckus Early Music

Tickets to this event go on sale to Adelphi PAC Members on Monday, December 16, 2024 and to the General Public on Monday, January 6, 2025. Find out how to become an Adelphi PAC Member HERE, or if you are already a Member, click HERE to log in and purchase your early access tickets.

Ruckus is a shapeshifting, collaborative baroque ensemble with a visceral and playful approach to early music. Described as “the world’s only period-instrument rock band” (San Francisco Classical Voice), Ruckus’ core is a continuo group, the baroque equivalent of a jazz rhythm section: 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, creating a unique sound of “rough-edged intensity” (New Yorker) that’s “achingly delicate one moment, incisive and punchy the next” (New York Times). The group’s members are among the most creative and virtuosic performers in North American early music.