The Society has been doing a lot, and we couldn’t do it without you! We want to thank our members and community while celebrating our successes at our annual meeting, with a free community potluck and performance by historic music ensemble Lyracle.

Historic houses help us imagine what home life for some people in colonial New England might have looked like, but what might it have sounded like? Find out at a performance of historical music ensemble Lyracle’s program, Musick’s Recreation. In this program, Lyracle focuses on a few documented viol players in colonial New England as well as viol players who were left out of historical records. Lyracle connects what can be inferred about their varied musical experiences to English repertoire that was likely present in 17th and early-18th-century New England. Experience the music of beloved composers like Henry Purcell and his lesser-known contemporaries recontextualized, and help celebrate all kinds of local historic music-making: the silly, the serious and everything in between.

The event is free and open to the public, but only members may vote on our slate of officers and board members. Meeting at 5 and the food and music flow at 5:30. Bring a dish to share!

IMAGE: Gallery musicians from the frontispiece of William Billings’ ‘The Psalm Singer’s Amusement’ (Boston, 1781). The player on the left appears to be dangling a tenor viol over the balcony. From "Early Music America"