Panoply at Jalopy! Alkemie/Freelance Nun with Smoke Ring & Sibyl

Doors 6:30pm, Show 7pm
$25 adv /  $30 dos

Alkemie returns to the Jalopy stage to perform music from their album a fine companion, with opening sets by friends Sibyl and Smoke Ring— two groups who also embrace experimentation with historic music traditions.

ALKEMIE and its sister ensemble Freelance Nun collaborated to create a fine companion, which blends the medieval and modern in unexpected ways. Composer Charles Mueller has taken troubadour texts and transformed them into dream-pop/shoegaze/psychedelic contemporary journeys, where you're just as likely to hear the rock trinity of electric guitar, bass, and drums as viola da gamba. The result is a sensual time portal to raw experience and visceral reaction.

As travelers to the intersections of the medieval court, cloister, and folk world, Alkemie is unabashed about dismantling the barriers that have traditionally separated these domains and our present experience. Comprised of singer-performers playing two dozen instruments–including vielles (early fiddles), harps, psaltery, scheitholt (early zither), recorders, douçaines & dulcians (early double reeds), bagpipes, and percussion—they are known for their “characterful playing” (The New Yorker) and "fresh arrangements that incorporate touches of bluegrass and Celtic music” (The Whole Note). Alkemie recently created the soundtrack to the Peabody and BAFTA award-winning video game Pentiment, which Gamereactor said “truly elevated the experience to a height normally reserved for angels and aircrafts.”

SIBYL is a folk duo from New York City, formed by Chloe and Lily Holgate, two sisters who draw inspiration from the tradition of the Sibyls—prophetic women of the ancient world who foretold the future through poetry and song. Blending their love for storytelling with their classical foundations, they bring folk music into a contemporary, emotive light. Sibyl has performed on chamber music series around the northeast, at rock music venues around the city and many house concerts for small audiences—their favorite venue!  Sibyl has been a resident artist at Avaloch Music Institute and in 2022 they were winners of WNYC's Public Song Project.

SMOKE RING is a mixed voice barbershop and contemporary a cappella quartet pushing the limits of what’s possible in barbershop with a lot of sass and sparkle. Made up of Rebecca Eckes (tenor), Stephanie “Tags” Taglianetti (lead), Gabriel Spector (bass), and Alexander Ronneberg (baritone), their humble beginnings began behind a curtain in Charlotte, NC, where they tucked away for some privacy to ring chords in a crowded room. They made things official in 2023, the same year they took first in Voices of Gotham’s Tin Pan Alley novice quartet contest. Smoke Ring's rapid ascent continued in 2024, when they became the first-ever mixed voice quartet to win the Mid-Atlantic District quartet competition and placed 9th with their debut at the Barbershop Harmony Society’s 2024 International quartet contest—making them the highest-ranked mixed voice quartet in the world.