Marieke van Ransbeeck & Adriaan Lauwers

In the historic hall above De Waag, one of Amsterdam's oldest buildings, music comes to life that for centuries brought people together at celebrations, in taverns and at court. The intimate setting provides the perfect backdrop for a programme in which Baroque and folk music meet.

Baroque and folk traditions meet in this programme for bagpipes, theorbo, and Baroque guitar. Marieke Van Ransbeeck and Adriaan Lauwers perform music by composers including Rameau, Boismortier, and Chédeville, interwoven with traditional melodies from Belgium and Scandinavia as well as their own arrangements. The combination of the French baroque musette, Swedish and Flemish bagpipes, and plucked string instruments creates a direct, rhythmic sound, closely connected to the dance floor for which much of this music was originally intended.

Bagpiper Marieke Van Ransbeeck moves effortlessly between folk and early music and has performed with ensembles such as Concerto Copenhagen and the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. In 2024, she received the Vocatio Laureate Award and appeared as a soloist at Tomorrowland. Lutenist and theorbist Adriaan Lauwers has performed at venues including BOZAR, Philharmonie Luxembourg, and Theater an der Wien, and specialises in seventeenth-century improvisational practice.

Musicians

Marieke van Ransbeeck barokmusette, Zweedse doedelzak en Belgische doedelzak 

Adriaan Lauwers theorbe & barokgitaar