‘Lafayette’s Fiddlers’ premiere at Sydnor Performance Hall [Video]

From Staff Reports

On Nov. 9 at 3 p.m. Amherst Glebe Arts Response in Collaboration with Early Music Access Project Charlottesville and University of Lynchburg Arts Collaborative will present the World premiere of Early Music Access Project’s “Lafayette Fiddlers,” at Sydnor Performance Hall, Shewel Hall at the University of Lynchburg.

Early Music Access Project is commemorating the 200th anniversary of the Marquis de Lafayette’s visit to Thomas Jefferson at Charlottesville, Monticello, and the University of Virginia in 1824. EMAP artistic director David McCormick has curated a program including music that may have been played for the occasion by the Scott family Fiddlers, of Black and indigenous descent also descended from the Hemings , and French songs that Lafayette and Jefferson admired.

Performers are Dominic Giardino, historical clarinets; Benjamin Hunter, baroque fiddle, voice, banjo, percussion; Carmen Johnson-Pájaro, baroque fiddle; Brandon Lee, actor, percussion; David McCormick, artistic director and baroque fiddle; Rebecca Scout Nelson, baroque …