Boston Early Music Festival
It's on.
Boston was home for many years and is still our second home as we have family in the area. We happen to be in town for a bit and happily I learned that the Boston Early Music Festival is this week! Info here: https://bemf.org/2025-festival/. If you are in the area, and love medieval music, there are many wonderful sessions scattered around town!
I am going to three sessions. I’m excited to see the lutenist Paul O’Dette, whom I have listened to for many years, but never seen live. Tonight (at 10:30, so if you are here you still have time to get tickets!), he will perform with tenor Aaron Sheehan, in The Excellency of Wine: Songs by Dowland, Guédron, Mouliniee, and Henry Lawes, which sounds good fun. I hope they are serving wine :).
Tomorrow, very much on topic for this substack, is the session entitled A Gallery of Kings: Uses and Abuses of Power, ca. 1300, which will include performances of a number of the troubadour songs we’ve played here previously, especially Ja nus hon pris, written by Richard the Lionheart himself, and many other tunes.
Lastly we’ll see Octavia, Richard Keiser’s opera about Nero, Seneca, and The Roman Rebellion.
If you are in the Boston area, come out and see some live music!
