March is Early Music Month. Join me this afternoon on The Classical Network for the second of two Noontime Concerts featuring highlights from the 2016 Guild for Early Music Festival.

Each year, the festival is held at Grounds For Sculpture, the not-for-profit sculpture garden, museum, and arboretum, located in Hamilton, NJ. This year’s festival will take place on the two stages of the Seward Johnson Center for the Arts, with possible supplementary performances held outdoors by strolling musicians, weather permitting, this Sunday, March 18, from 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. To find out more, look online at guildforearlymusic.org.

Or tune in: I’ll be joined by Guild musicians and board members John Burkhalter and Janet Palumbo, who will be my co-hosts for music from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classical Periods. The fun starts at noon.

Following today’s broadcast concert, stick around for related music until 2:00. Then I’ll be back with some presentiments of St. Patrick’s Day from 4 to 7 p.m. EDT, including an all-Irish “Picture Perfect” at 6. We’ll be greening up a little early, on WWFM – The Classical Network and wwfm.org.