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This weekend, the UK’s lauded vocal consort, The Gesualdo Six, flies across the pond to join Revels for Revels Presents: Secret Byrd. We sat down with Owain Park, director of the ensemble, to learn more about the group’s busy performance schedule, work in the community, and experiences performing Secret…

For over 20 years, Seven Times Salt has been exploring, expanding, and morphing the tradition of 16th- and 17th-century English Concert repertoire, bringing their unique curiosity and creativity to historically accurate performances that “blur the line between art music and folk tunes in the concert hall, the dance…

Joining the Midwinter Revels Children’s Chorus is a huge commitment for our young singers, who spent the entire fall learning music, choreography, and blocking for a thirteen-performance run in Sanders Theatre. But being in the Children’s Chorus is also an amazing opportunity for young performers to grow and…

Every year, a brave cohort of young performers take the Sanders Theatre stage as members of our Revels Children’s Chorus. After months of rehearsal, including three all-day weekend rehearsals with our Adult Chorus, they take the stage to perform songs, dances, and more for two exciting weeks of…

This year, Revels is kicking off Revels RiverSing: Two Dragons Dancing with a bang… or rather, with a HONK! We are thrilled to have Good Trouble Brass Band, a Boston-based activist street band, join us in the festivities as we welcome in the Autumnal Equinox with song and…

Arts educator, musician, dancer, and tradition bearer Rosalba Solis first worked with Revels in 1994, during the Mesoamerican Christmas Revels. Originally from Guadalajara, Mexico, Rosalba has spent much of her career bringing Latin American music and traditions into Boston Public Schools. She is also the founder of La…

Revels fan favorite Carolyn Saxon has been performing with Revels since our 2019 American Christmas Revels, and has been back for every December production since, as well as 2022’s RiverSing! This year, Carolyn took to the Sanders Theatre stage as the mystical Spirit of Place, guiding our characters…

Heather Koerber Nunes and Jake Nunes are no strangers to the Revels stage – they have been in eight and seven Revels shows respectively over the past twelve years! Their love for Revels has become a family affair for Heather, Jake, and their three children, and even bleeds…

“Long before there was a Christmas, man celebrated at this time of the year upon noticing the return of the sun to higher elevations in the sky. Pagan rituals sprang up around this event, later to become tangled with Christian lore, which called for a celebration at a…

Joining us on the Revels Spring Sing stage for the first time will be acclaimed performer, arts educator, choral clinician, and musicologist Dr. Kathy Bullock! Dr. Bullock’s work has taken her across the world, from her 29-year tenure as a professor at Berea College in Kentucky, to her…