Arcadia Players - New England's Period Instrument Ensemble

Arcadia Players embraces 
historical performance 
practice to illuminate 
and invigorate the 
great Western heritage 
of vocal and 
instrumental music.

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2019-2020 Concert Season

Thirtieth Anniversary Concert
Sunday, October 13, 2019, 3:00PM
Abbey Chapel
Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA
Margaret Irwin Brandon, Arcadia Players Founder/Director Emerita, will perform on the historic Fisk organ, joined by co-founders Alice Robbins, viol, and Dana Maiben, violin.
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Handel's ​Messiah
Friday, December 13, 2019, 7:30PM
Our Lady of the Valley Church
Easthampton, MA
Our annual, signature performance of Handel’s Messiah, with a chorus of soloists and guest conductor Woodrow Bynum.
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Arcadia Viols
Sunday, February 23, 2020, 3:00PM
Wesley United Methodist Church, Hadley, MA
The viol consort will be joined by vocal soloists in a program of songs from the 16th-century.
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Johann Theile's St. Matthew Passion
​​​Sunday, March 29, 2020, 7:30PM​
Our Lady of the Valley Parish
Easthampton, MA
Illuminati Vocal Arts Ensemble and guest conductor Tony Thornton.

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Arcadia Players performing Monteverdi at 
St. Mary's Church, Northampton
Photo by Walter Denny

Image Credit Detail: 
Thomas Cole, Dream of  Arcadia, c. 1838
Denver Art Museum Collection:
Gift of Mrs. Lindsey Gentry, 1954.71

Arcadia Players' 2019-2020 concert season is made possible through the support of you, our patrons and donors, 
our hosts Mount Holyoke College, Wesley United Methodist Church, and Our Lady of the Valley Parish,
our media sponsor New England Public Radio, WFCR and all-news WNNZ,
and in 2019 by the Cultural Councils of Amherst, South Hadley, and Hadley,
and local agencies supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
Acadia Players is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.

Arcadia Players
Baroque Orchestra and Chamber Ensemble
P.O. Box 1563
Northampton, MA 01061
413 586-8742 (413 58-MUSIC)

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