Folk Collective Floyds Row Will Tour Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, And Maine, September To October, 2025

The folk music collective Floyds Row, internationally acclaimed for exploring connections among early, classical, folk, new grass, and world genres, will launch its seven-city East Coast tour September 27, 2025. The ensemble will present historical music by John Playford (1623-1686), John Eccles (1668-1735), and Jeremiah Ingalls (1764-1838), as well as additional works arranged and/or composed by Hailey Fuqua (soprano), Asako Takeuchi (violin), Jacques Lee Wood (violoncello & banjo), Andrew Arceci (bass & mandolin), George Lykogiannis (accordion & piano), and Mike Williams (percussion).

 

The tour begins in Newton, MA, on Saturday, September 27^th, at the House Of Play House Concerts. Next, the group will travel to Ridgewood, NJ, where it will be presented by the Ridgewood Library on Sunday, September 28^th. The following day, Monday, September 29^th, the ensemble travels to North Adams, MA, to perform in the SING FOR YOUR SLUMBER series at TOURISTS Radio. Floyds Row takes the stage at the Academy of Music Theatre in Northampton, MA, on Tuesday, September 30^th.

 

On Thursday, October 2^nd,  the group will be presented by the Music Hall Lounge in Portsmouth, NH.; on Friday, October 3^rd,  it returns to the Winchendon Music Festival; and, to conclude the tour, Floyds Row will perform Sunday, October 5^th,  at Camden ME’s Friends of Music Concert Series at First Congregational Church.

 

Founded in 2012 in Oxford, UK by Chris Ferebee (mandolin, guitar & cittern), Alistair Anderson (English concertina & Northumbrian pipes), Andrew Arceci (viola da gamba & double bass), Floyds Row has developed into a folk-classical collective, pulling from early, folk, and classical idioms. What began as an Oxford-based project has blossomed into a touring ensemble on notable stages across the UK and U.S., with a critically appreciated album that merges chamber elegance with folk resonance. The name “Floyds?Row” comes from a historic street in Oxford that runs beside the Faculty of Music of the University of Oxford.

 

Here is the full tour schedule:

 

 

Idaho native and dramatic coloratura soprano Hailey Fuqua has been hailed for her “gorgeous tone…reached her high notes in her coloratura with enviable ease and precision” (San Francisco Classical Voice) who “wields a fine instrument” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) and made her debut at the Carmel Bach Festival stepping in as the Queen of the Night on short notice. Noted for her “pure and ample soprano” (Boston Classical Review), she was the first soprano to sing the role of the Stage Manager in Ned Rorem’s “Our Town”. She recently had a role debut of Alceste (Gluck’s Alceste) with period ensemble Grand Harmonie. In 2015 she helped to unveil the Western Hemisphere premiere of Lee Mingwei’s “Sonic Blossom” at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This interactive performance art exhibit featured Schubert lieder in intimate performances for museum patrons. Other recent performances include La Comtesse Adele in Rossini's Le Comte Ory with Lowell House Opera and Countess in Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Opera del West.

 

As a solo, chamber, and orchestral player, baroque violinist Asako Takeuchi has performed with ensembles such as the Wallfisch Band (UK), Collegium Musicum Den Haag (Netherlands), Den Haag Piano Quintet (Netherlands), The Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands, Arion Baroque Orchestra (Canada), Handel & Haydn Society (USA), Boston Baroque (USA), and folk ensemble Floyds Row. She has performed at festivals including Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht (Netherlands), Deutsches Mozartfest and Innsbruck Festival (Germany), Festival de Música Antigua de Barcelona (Spain), MUPA International Arts Festival (Thailand), and Abbaye aux Dames (France), and Aston Magna Festival (USA). Discography includes recordings with The Wallfisch Band, Arion Baroque Orchestra, and The Bach Choir & Orchestra of the Netherlands. She has given workshops at Burapha University (Thailand) and holds degrees from the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands), University of Southern California, and Berklee College of Music.

 

Deeply committed to seeking out new areas in music to explore, Jacques Lee Wood became the Cape Symphony's Principal Cellist in 2018. Jacques is a founding member of Antico Moderno, a period chamber ensemble that commissions new works for period instruments; StringLab, a duo with guitarist Simon Powis that produces original arrangements/compositions; and the NYC-based bluegrass band Cathedral Parkway. An avid chamber musician, Jacques is currently a member of the Pedroia String Quartet and musiConnects’ Sumner Quartet, and a frequent guest artist with A Far Cry, Trinity Baroque Orchestra, and the Handel and Haydn Society. He holds a BM from the New England Conservatory of Music, and an MM and DMA from Yale University.

 

George Lykogiannis is a New York City-based pianist, composer, and improviser. He works extensively in the dance world in the New York metropolitan area, accompanying ballet and modern dance classes for the Mark Morris Dance Group, New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, the Ailey School, Marymount Manhattan College, and Ballet Tech, among others. He holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts (DMA) in classical piano performance from Rutgers University.

 

Mike Williams is a Boston-based performer specializing in contemporary music. He has performed with local ensembles including Sound Icon, Ludovico Ensemble, Callithumpian Consort, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Harvard Group for New Music, and Composers in Red Sneakers among many others. Williams has been involved in numerous recording projects released on the Cantaloupe, BMOP Sound, Albany, and Northwest Classics labels. As an orchestral and chamber musician he has appeared at the Festival de Mexico, Gaudeamus Music Week, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and the New Hampshire Music Festival. Active in the creation of new works, Williams is the artistic director of Guerilla Opera, an ensemble that exclusively commissions and premieres new chamber operas. Highlights of this season include the world premiere of Rudolf Rojahn’s Deus ex Machina for solo percussion during The Boston Conservatory New Music Festival and the US premiere of Stefano Gervasoni’s concerto for percussion Epicadenza with Sound Icon.

 

Called a "thoughtful interpreter of historically informed early music" by Stephen Brookes in The Washington Post, Andrew Arceci has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. During the 2019-2020 academic year, Mr. Arceci was a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Mr. Arceci has taught at several institutions, including Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Wellesley College (Director, Collegium Musicum), and Worcester State University. Additionally, he has given lectures, masterclasses, and/or workshops at Illinois Wesleyan University, the International Baroque Institute at Longy (Bard College), the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, the Narnia Arts Academy (Italy), Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Italy), Taipei National University of the Arts (Taiwan), and Burapha University (Thailand).

     

Mr. Arceci studied double bass, viola da gamba, and art history at Peabody Conservatory – Johns Hopkins University and went on to study early music at The Juilliard School and at Magdalen College in Oxford. 

 

Founded in 2016, the Winchendon Music Festival, dubbed "a world-class event in the small north Worcester County town" by Richard Duckett in the Telegram & Gazette, is dedicated to the memory of Andrew Arceci’s father, Robert J. Arceci, a pediatric oncologist with a passion for the arts.

 

 

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