Managed by Felicia Eberling, BEMB
has been active for about 11 years. Their purpose is to have fun playing
the music and to share that fun with the audience. The Beltway Early
Music Band and its Medieval/Renaissance cousin,
Sylvan Ayres, can be reached at 301-587-3711.
BEMB plays for weddings, receptions, concerts, cocktails, dinners, and
cultural and educational programs, dressed as the setting warrants -- in
assorted period costumes, concert black-and-whites, or standard everyday wear.
BEMB performance settings include:
Hastings Faire (Markland Medieval Militia, Marietta Mansion)
RON BOUCHER plays
shawm,
dulcian,
krummhorn,
cornamuse,
recorder, and
viola da gamba,
and sings tenor/countertenor. Other music groups include Musica Antiqua
(Alexandria, VA), Convivium Musicum (Boston, MA), and I Piffari (Longey
School of Music, Cambridge, MA). Ron is a signal/image processing
software engineer.
BRIAN CARDELL plays
tuba,
tenor trombone,
bass sackbut,
recorder,
6-holed & 8-keyed flutes,
cornamuse, and
krummhorn,
and sings baritone. Other music groups include the Medieval Music Group
at Catholic University, the
Three Left Feet musicians,
the Collegium Musicum (U. of Arizona), and the Avalon Players. Brian
is finishing up an M.S. degree in Library Science at Catholic University
of America, and is a librarian at the Capucin College in Washington, DC.
BOB LOMAX plays Celtic
bodhran,
stick drums,
doumbek,
and anything else he can get hold of to make rhythms. Raised by
professional Bluegrass musicians, he is somehow fascinated with
Medieval and Renaissance music. Bob is a computer system analyst/programmer.
ARTHUR LOUIS plays
cello
and sings bass,
working with various ensembles and orchestras on a job-by-job basis.
Arthur is a computer system analyst /programmer and operations manager.
PAUL SIEGEL plays
shawm,
cornamuse,
krummhorn,
recorder, and
dulcian,
and sings bass; other music groups include
Sylvan Ayres,
GW Early Music Collegium, and Washington Recorder Society. Paul is
a statistician at the Census Bureau.
JANET TRAUTVETTER plays percussion,
guitar, and
recorder,
playing various gigs on a job-by-job basis; she occasionally plays with
Sylvan Ayres.
Janet is a legal secretary and free-lance scriptwriter, writer,
and illustrator.