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The Spirit of Gambo is a Chicago area viol consort featuring Ken Perlow, Phillip Serna & Russell Wagner. The Spirit of Gambo performs music throughout the rich viol consort repertoire. Programs are built around providing historical context as well as variety in the repertoire to produce a stirring musical experience.

“I Doe not studie Eloquence, or profess Musicke, although I doe love Sence, and affect Harmony: my Profession being, as my Education hath beene, Armes, the onely effeminate part of me, hath beene Musicke; which in mee hath beene alwayes Generous, because never Mercenarie. To prayse Musicke, were to say, the Sunne is bright. To extoll my selfe, would name my labors vaine glorious. Onely this, my studies are far from servile imitations, I robbe no others inventions, I take no Italian Note to an English dittie, or filch fragments of Songs to stuffe out my volumes. There are mine own Phansies expressed by my proper Genius, which if thou dost dislike, let me see thine…”

– Captaine Tobias Hume, Composer of the the Spirit of Gambo –

– from the Musicall Humours (1605) –

Spirit of Gambo Member News

'Viols in Our Schools' Website is Live – In January 2008, 'Viols in Our Schools' has gone live. For more information, please visit http://www.violsinourschools.org/.

The Spirit of Gambo –

a Chicago Consort of Viols

Announcing Concerts for the 2008-2009 Season

The Spirit of Gambo – a Chicago Consort of Viols – "Where Fancy Fond For Pleasure Pleads" – Consort Songs for Voices & Viols

Early Music Series at the Byron Colby Barn, Grayslake, IL

Sunday, March 29, 2009 4:00PM

Joined by special guests Stephanie Sheffield, soprano, and Craig Trompeter, viol, the Spirit of Gambo wil Gambol through the countryside of 150 years of English viol consort tradition, presenting selections by Byrd, Gibbons, Lawes, Locke, Purcell and others.