Early Music Underground: The Extraordinary Ignatius Sancho

Tuesday, January 17, 2017 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Composer, author, playwright, abolitionist, and businessman Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729 and became the first Black Briton to vote in a parliamentary election. Join acclaimed tenor Zach Finkelstein and the EMU House Band for a celebration of Sancho's extraordinary life through his music, writings, and the music of his London contemporaries.

$20

Early Music Underground: The Extraordinary Ignatius Sancho

Sunday, January 15, 2017 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
Composer, author, playwright, abolitionist, and businessman Ignatius Sancho was born on a slave ship in 1729 and became the first Black Briton to vote in a parliamentary election. Join acclaimed tenor Zach Finkelstein and the EMU House Band for a celebration of Sancho's extraordinary life through his music, writings, and the music of his London contemporaries.

$25, includes wine tasting

Early Music Underground: In Mary's Arms

Sunday, December 4, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PST)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
An intimate and profound program of rarely-heard motets and cantatas for voice, strings, and organ by 17th century women composers.

$25, includes wine tasting

Early Music Underground: In Mary's Arms – Christmas with Baroque Women Composers (Whidbey Island)

Saturday, December 3, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church, Freeland, WA, United States
An intimate and profound program of rarely-heard motets and cantatas for voice, strings, and organ by 17th century women composers.

$20-$25, under 18 free

Early Music Underground: In Mary's Arms – Christmas with Baroque Women Composers

Tuesday, November 29, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
An intimate and profound program of rarely-heard motets and cantatas for voice, strings, and organ by 17th century women composers.

$20

Early Music Underground: BACHtoberfest

Tuesday, October 25, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
It's Bach, brews, and burgers with organist Wyatt Smith in a program of some of J.S. Bach's greatest organ works performed on Marceau Organbuilders' portable pipe organ.

$20

Fright Night: 'Nosferatu' with live pipe organ accompaniment

Monday, October 24, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
A screening of F. W. Murnau's silent horror masterpiece Nosferatu with a live, completely improvised pipe organ accompaniment.

$20, includes free house beverage

Bach's Lunch: Tekla Cunningham, baroque violin

Tuesday, October 4, 2016 @ 12:10pm – 12:50pm (PDT)
Christ Episcopal Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
A bring-your-lunch program of virtuosic music from 18th century Vienna, including sonatas by Biber, Schmelzer, and Albertini.

Free (Free)

Early Music Underground: Winds of Change – Music for Horn, Flute, and Harpsichord

Tuesday, September 13, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
An exciting and virtuosic tour of changing musical styles in 18th century Europe.

$20

Early Music Underground: Winds of Change

Sunday, September 11, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
St. Augustine's in-the-Woods Episcopal Church, Freeland, WA, United States
An exciting and virtuosic tour of changing musical styles in 18th century Europe.

$20-$25

Early Music Underground: Tasting Notes – Winds of Change

Saturday, September 10, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
An exciting and virtuosic tour of changing musical styles in 18th century Europe.

$25, includes wine tasting

Early Music Underground: Father's Day at Naked City Brewery

Tuesday, June 21, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
A fiery and virtuosic romp through music composed by priests (and a nun), including Vivaldi's breathtaking La Folia and works by Leonarda, Bonporti, Zipoli, and Nebra.

$20 (includes a complimentary house beverage)

Early Music Underground: Father's Day at Northwest Cellars

Sunday, June 19, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
A fiery and virtuosic romp through music composed by priests (and a nun), including Vivaldi's breathtaking La Folia and works by Leonarda, Bonporti, Zipoli, and Nebra.

$20 (includes wine tasting)

Early Music Underground: Tasting Notes – All Who Wander…

Saturday, May 21, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
Taste five of Northwest Cellars' exceptional wines paired with music from Scotland, Sweden, France, and Mexico.

$20 (includes wine tasting)

Early Music Underground: Baroque Brittania and Mother's Day Tea

Sunday, May 8, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
St. John's Episcopal Church Kirkland, Kirkland, WA, United States
Celebrate Mother's Day in classic English style with instrumental works by English composers Purcell, Handel, Blow, Boyce, Arne, and Overend – and an elegant afternoon tea.

$15-$20

The Violin with the Dragon Tattoo: Baroque Music from Scandanavia

Wednesday, May 4, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Christ Episcopal Church Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
A program of works by Johan Helmich Roman, Johan Henrik Freithoff, and Johann Gottfried Palschau.

$15-$20 (under 18 free)

The Violin with the Dragon Tattoo: Baroque Music from Scandanavia

Tuesday, May 3, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of music from 18th century Sweden, Norway, and Finland, including works by Johan Helmich Roman – called the Father of Swedish Music – and West Coast premieres of music by Johan Henrick Freithoff and Thomas Byström.

$20 (includes a complimentary house beer or glass of wine)

Early Music Underground: (Baroque) Band of Brothers at Northwest Cellars

Sunday, April 24, 2016 @ 3:00pm – 5:00pm (PDT)
Northwest Cellars, Kirkland, WA, United States
It's sibling revelry (and rivalry) as we explore the relationship between the violin and viola through the music of famous musical brothers, including the Purcells, the Grauns, and more.

$25 (includes wine tasting)

Early Music Underground: Tasting Notes – Finn Hill Winery

Saturday, April 23, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
St. John's Episcopal Church Kirkland, Kirkland, WA, United States
An elegant evening of great wine and great music featuring outstanding Bordeaux-style wines from Finn Hill Winery paired with baroque music for violin, viola, and harpsichord.

$20-$25 suggested donation includes wine tasting

Dirty (Baroque) Dancing

Tuesday, April 19, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Naked City Brewery and Taphouse, Seattle, WA, United States
Get ready to have the time of your life – or at least a pretty good time – as the EMU Historically-Informed House Band and special guest baroque dancers sweep you off your feet with this tribute to 17th-century dance music from court and countryside, from Praetorius to Lully.

$20 (includes complimentary house beer or glass of wine)