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This year’s program honors the vision and history of Folger Consort and Co-Artistic Directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall Folger Consort, the award-winning early music ensemble-in-residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library, announced its 2026-27 concert series today. The season marks 50 years of Folger Consort under founding directors Robert Eisenstein and Christopher Kendall. “For more than half a century, […]

September 26, 3:30 pm – FREE Arts Speak Performance Lecture at the Performing Arts Center, Brewser, MA. Come to an extraordinary lute lecture-performance by Paul O’Dette, Professor of Lute and Director of Early Music at the Eastman School of Music and Artistic Co-Director of the Boston Early Music Festival. This afternoon will focus on the

August 14 at 7:30 PM, August 15 at 3:30 PM, at the Church of the Transfiguration, Orleans, MA.Experience this powerful and beautiful early Baroque work—revolutionary for its time, and very relevant today! Scored for seven solo singers, chorus, and period instruments including recorders, cornetti, theorbo, sackbuts, lute, chamber organ, and viola da gamba, it will

A milestone anniversary year highlights rare Renaissance polyphony, a special August 9 concert, and a new fundraising initiative to preserve historic choral traditions. WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 2026) – The Suspicious Cheese Lords (SCL), Washington, D.C.’s all-male early music vocal ensemble, proudly announces its 30th anniversary. Founded in 1996, the ensemble has built a reputation for

E-Bow Guitar Breathes New Life into Perotin’s 12th-Century Masterpiece Viderunt Omnes Private Streaming Link: Click hereDownload (mp3, wav, mp4):  Click here PORTLAND, Oregon — Composer, guitarist, filmmaker, and recording artist Carlos Severe Marcelin announces the release of a unique interpretation of Viderunt Omnes, the monumental organum by the 12th-century composer Perotin. Rather than recreating the