Music History

On December 15th at 7:30 pm, Crestwood Christian Church will host Musick's Company once again for our annual Christmas Concert, where we will be celebrating the music of Appalachia and the South. In particular, our singers have challenged themselves with a new technique: Southern shape-note singing, one of the foundational building blocks of our program.

On December 15th at 7:30 pm, at Crestwood Christian Church, Musick's Company will present a program of "old music from the New World", featuring the music of Kentuckian musicologist John Jacob Niles. Unless you're particularly familiar with Kentucky music history, you might not know of Niles and his work. What did he accomplish, and what does he have to do with early music? Read on, and learn how John Jacob Niles earned the title of "the Dean of American Balladeers".

A woodcarving depicting the inside of a publishing house such as the one Morley employed. On September 14th, Musick's Company has the...

On June 15th, 2025, Musick's Company presented "Tomorrow is the Marriage Day", a collection of music dedicated to celebrating the joys of love and marriage. One of the largest portions of this performance centered around a spectacular historical event: the marriage of Cosimo I Medici and Eleanora of Toledo in 1539. Though the couple united under the auspices of political advantage, they also did so out of a mutual respect and love that defined their partnership until death.