Picture, if you will, seven musicians crowded onto the Freight stage, each of them surrounded by half a dozen or more exotic instruments: fingers fly and feet tap as they embark on a journey through a millennium's worth of musics from Europe, Asia, the Middle-East, Africa, and America, with songs and storytelling thrown in. And you're invited along for the ride! With music from Sweden, Scotland, north Georgia, Auvergne, Madagascar, the 18th century, Gaspesie, Bulgaria, Mississippi, the 11th century, Cuba, Xinjiang, Oklahoma, Galicia, central Africa, and the 21st century, Party of Seven offers dizzying time signatures, startling geographical segues, and one of the liveliest shows around. This septet of multi-instrumental masters features Robin Petrie on hammered dulcimer, Shira Kammen on violine d'amore, vielle, rebec, and harp, Kevin Carr on fiddle, violine d'amore, and pipes, Paul Hostetter on guitar and mandolin, Barry Phillips on cellos, tabla, and percussion, Shelley Phillips on double-reeds, harp, harmonium, and flutes, and Peter Maund on percussion. Also, they all sing as well as play plenty of other instruments which there is not enough room to list here. And there's one more thing: they have a whole lot of fun doing it (it's called Party of Seven for good reason). Seat belts suggested.