Submitted by The Salish Sea Early Music Festival. Similar flutes are favored still today by the most well-known Irish traditional music players, notably Matt Malloy of the Chieftans. Lindsey Strand-Polyak plays a viola made in about 1720 in England with a bow like those played in the early 19th century. The Salish Sea Early Music Festival, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is proud to be an affiliate organization of Early Music America, which develops, strengthens, and celebrates early music and historically informed performance in North America. SSEMF has presented countless first performances in modern times of period instrument renditions of early works.
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