Resilience | Music for Troubled Times

London, 1665: A year-long plague held the city in its grip, but haunting folk ballads and laments of Dowland and Purcell wafted from the windows of empty streets. Two centuries later, outbreaks of cholera and dysentery could not prevent Americans – black and white – from singing in joyous harmony at the end of the Civil War. We celebrate the resilience of the human spirit.

Jeannette Sorrell, direction & program design

Amanda Powell & Ashlee Foreman, soprano

Brian Kay, vocals & lute

Olivier Brault & Susanna Perry Gilmore, violin

Emi Tanabe, violin

Andrew Fouts, violin & viola

Kathie Stewart, wooden flutes

Tina Bergmann, hammered dulcimer

Rebecca Landell Reed, cello & viola da gamba

Dr. Daniel Shoskes, lute (special guest)

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