Madison Early Music Festival Presents MEMF Faculty Concerts

Musical reflections of the lives of the first settlers from England who settled in what later was called the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Pro and anti-Puritan broadside ballads, psalm settings and broken consort pieces by John Dowland and Richard Allison, and readings from Good news from New England (London, 1648) by Edward Johnson, the flinty town father of Woburn, Massachusetts, who most likely wrote the words to the first known American ballad entitled "New England's Annoyances."