||| FROM JEFFREY COHAN for SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL |||
Between January and late June the 2024 Salish Sea Early Music Festival presents eight performances in Eastsound with outstanding specialists performing early music on period instruments coming from Germany, Switzerland, Montreal and all around the United States and the Northwest, all at the Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church.
2024 SALISH SEA EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL
~ early chamber music on period instruments on Orcas Island ~
WHAT: Three Centuries Guitar, Lute and Flute
WHEN: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 at 5:00 PM
WHERE: Orcas Adventist Fellowship Church at 107 Enchanted Forest Road in Eastsound
ADMISSION: suggested donation: $20 to $30 (a free will offering), 18 & under free.
MORE INFO: please see www.salishseafestival.org/orca
We begin on Wednesday, January 24 at 5 PM in the wonderful acoustic and setting which the Adventist Chapel provides with superb lutenist and guitarist Michael Freimuth from Kiel in Northern Germany, who will join me for a musical tour of three centuries and five distinct instruments: renaissance guitar, which is considerably smaller and more mellow-toned than its modern descendant, theorbo (an extremely long-necked lute), the one-piece cylindrical renaissance flute along with the bass renaissance flute, and the one-keyed baroque flute.
We’re moving to 5 PM, conflicting less with dinner time and allowing one to return home earlier on these cold and dark winter nights!
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