Connecticut Early Music Festival: Seven Times Salt – From Plimoth to Yorktown: Music of Early America
June 14 @ 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
$40
Sunday, June 14 | 5:00 PM | Red Barn, Mitchell College, 629-A Montauk Avenue, New London
Seven Times Salt – From Plimoth to Yorktown: Music of Early America
Celebrate America’s early musical history with songs from the first settlers to the Revolutionary era, including works by Thomas Arne and William Billings, and a pleasing variety of 18th century dance tunes. Tickets are $40 in advance ($45 at the door). $20 for under 40s. FREE for students of all ages. Visit website for discounts and packages.
On the brink of our nation’s 250th birthday, Seven Times Salt’s tour of early New England traces a musical lineage extending from the first settlers at Plimoth to their descendants’ eventual victory at Yorktown. English catches and early hymns lead to songs of liberty, rants against taxation and tyranny, wartime laments, and even some of George Washington’s favorite dance tunes. The program includes works by Thomas Arne and William Billings, selections from the Ainsworth Psalter and the Bay Psalm Book, and a pleasing variety of dance tunes from 18th-century American manuscripts.
Program subject to change.
