Acronym has no upcoming Boston-area shows listed. They last played February 14, 2026 at First Church in Cambridge.
ACRONYM is an American baroque string band built around the wild, unruly instrumental music of the seventeenth century. Founded in 2012 by cellist and gambist Kivie Cahn-Lipman with a rotating cast of leading period-instrument players, the ensemble made its name reviving forgotten Austro-German composers such as Antonio Bertali, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer and Giovanni Valentini, much of it recorded for the first time. Their albums on Olde Focus treat the repertoire as strange and dramatic rather than decorative, and they often share the stage with early-music singers.