An Evening with Bellman

An exhilarating evening of early music by Carl Michael Bellman, sung and played by gifted musicians, will be presented at Deutsches Haus, at 420 West 116th Street, between Amsterdam Avenue and Morningside Drive in New York City. The public is invited, and admission is free.Eighteenth-century songs by Sweden’s beloved troubadour Carl Michael Bellman (1740-1795), will be performed by Swedish bass Staffan Liljas and American soprano Brett Umlauf. They will be accompanied on the lute by Daniel Swenberg, on baroque violin by Chern Hwei, and on piano by Amber Youell-Fingleton, The songs, which are familiar to many Swedes, will be sung in Swedish, with translations available to the audience.