Early Music

Seven Times Salt is a Boston-based early music ensemble specializing in repertoire of the 16th and 17th centuries. Praised for creative programming and an “impeccably balanced sound” we delight in blurring the lines between “art music” and folk tunes, and feel at ease performing in the concert hall, the dance hall, or the beer hall!

Expect a fun selection of English Country Dances, 17th Century divisions, Irish and Scottish tunes, an perhaps a few Jewish selections in honor of the venue.

<strong>Dan Meyers: recorders, flutes, bagpipes and percussion
Josh Schreiber Shalem: Viola da gamba
Matthew Wright: Lute, Guitar</strong>
To be joined by various friends on various instruments....

Sylvia Berry is a specialist in historical keyboard instruments such as the harpsichord and fortepiano. Her debut CD, a recording of Haydn’s “London Sonatas” (Acis) recorded on an 1806 Broadwood, was hailed by Early Music America as “A wonderful debut that augurs more wonders to a come." Pulitzer prize-winning Boston music critic Lloyd Schwartz wrote of her work with Opera Boston, “Special applause for continuo fortepianist Sylvia Berry, [who played] as if she were one of the actors.” She performs widely as a soloist and chamber musician, and for this Porch Fest concert she will play solo music of Bach, Sweelinck, Balbastre, Haydn and others on a French double harpsichord.