New Milwaukee Consort presents “Draw neare to me and love me” The Sounds of Home in the 17th Century at United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay on Thursday, January 18 at 7:00 PM. This concert is part of the inaugural “Milwaukee Early Music” series hosted by Early Music Now featuring professional local musicians. “Draw neare to me and love me” explores the ways that music was part of home life in the 1600s, serving both as a pastime and as a way of measuring, marking, and celebrating the experience of time itself. You will hear music from published collections of songs for voice, lute, and continuo, along with music from handwritten manuscripts documenting the musical learning and collecting of amateur and professional singers and players. Featured pieces will include English lute music and songs compiled for or by musicians Jane Pickeringe and Elizabeth Davenant, and devotional songs composed by German noblewoman Amalia Catharina von Erbach.