Flights of Melody: American Guitar Duos at Somerville Museum

The Early Music Afternoons series returns to the Somerville Museum for its 24th season, offering five Sunday concerts from November through to May.

For the opening concert in this series, Olav Chris Henriksen, parlor guitar and Hawaiian guitar, is joined by Jamie Dunphy, parlor guitar for "Flights Of Melody," a concert featuring guitar duos heard from 1890 to 1940 in the American parlor. This program ranges through ragtime and blues to jazz and Hawaiian styles, with works by Barney and Seymore, Handy, Lang, Lucas, and McDonough and Kress.