Bordoen

Bordoen takes the audience back
to times long gone, when people danced to estampies, saltarellos and
virelais, and listened to ballads and minstrelsy. However, we do not play
courtly, stiff tunes, but rather concentrate on the music that resounded at
fairs, seasonal festivals and other popular occasions. Music played by a
motley crew in dark pubs and leafy squares in medieval Europe. With Bordoen,
we transform medieval ballads, songs of troubadours and minstrels and other
archaic singing styles into instrumental dance music. Of course, we will
never know exactly what this music sounded like in the Middle Ages. Hence,
with Bordoen, we have chosen to interpret the surviving melodies as
‘contemporary players’. Instead of aiming for a perfect historical rendition
of the available material, we choose to interpret it in a manner that we
believe will resonate with contemporary audiences.