MONMOUTH – Sites and Sounds, a concert highlighting thousands of years of artistic accomplishments, will be presented by the early music trio Calderwood Consort Friday, May 4, at Cumston Hall.

An evening of early and Renaissance music will accompany slides tracing the history of art and architecture, including cave paintings of southern France and Italian frescoes by Giotto. The visual program will be accompanied by live music performed by Calderwood Consort ranging from songs of classical Greece to a 14th century motet by Machaut.

Calderwood Consort has been performing medieval and Renaissance music for many years. Currently, the trio includes Margaret Edmondson, Linda Johnston, and Edwin Douglas. They play viol, vielle, harp, psaltery, recorders and crumhorns.

Edmondson, a native of England, studied at the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Durham. She has directed music for Calvary Methodist Church in Lewiston and Temple Shalom in Auburn, and is presently pastor at the Winthrop Center Friends Church.

Johnston, a graduate of Monmouth Academy and early employee of the Theater at Monmouth, went on to study musicology at Bates College and Oxford University. She owns The Monmouth Press and is a trustee of Cumston Hall.

Douglas is an artist who recently retired from teaching drawing and painting at the Maine College of Art. A resident of Portland, he spends his summers in Essex, N.Y., where he plays in a Baroque musical group.

The concert will begin at 7:30 p.m. Donations collected at the door will go to benefit historic Cumston Hall and its ongoing restoration. For more information, call 933-4922.