Main menu Toggle sub-menu Home Concerts Hear Us Donate NBPS Newsletter About Contact Us Upon a Summer's Day John Playford was a London publisher and book seller. He is perhaps best known today for his publication of "The English Dancing Master", 1651.
We will play a lot of songs and dances from his publications (such as "Upon the Summer's Day" along with some Scottish music!) as well as a few more serious pieces by his contemporaries: Henry Purcell, James Oswald and Marcin Mielczewski.
Julie Baumgartel , baroque violin Rona Goldensher , baroque violin Kerri McGonigle , viola da gamba, cello Cynthia Hiebert , harpsichord Rebecca McKay , soprano Magdalena Tomsinska , lute, Baroque guitar, theorbo