Music

Today was quite possibly in the running for Best Day Ever. We headed over the Richmond Bridge to Berkeley to check out the family concert by Piffaro, the Renaissance Band, part of the 2008 Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, a biennial festival of early music. We ended up getting to Hertz Hall in the nick of time, and were pleasantly surprised at will call to find that we got great seats: third row center stage. The performances were wonderful--full of toe tapping rhythms and performed on unusual instruments like shawms, dulcians, crumhorns, and sackbuts.