With the Folger Consort

Washington, DC

Music from the Jacobean court and the period of the English Civil War, reflecting on the political and religious upheavals in England. The Folger Consort will highlight political ballads focused on Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot, plus music from the courts of James I and Charles I, including political songs from Thomas D’Urfey’s Pills to Purge Melancholy.