This concert will take you back in time with music and instruments from Ireland, Scotland and Russia that are steeped in history, folklore and romance.
Oleg Timofeyev will play the lute and Russian seven-string guitar, and Jeffrey Cohan will play the baroque one-keyed and romantic period eight-keyed flutes.
The first part of their program will include early 18th-century Scottish and Irish works, including “Bridgit Cruise,” a piece written by the blind Irish harper Turlough Carolan, born in 1670, for his girlfriend, and still widely played by Irish folk musicians, according to press material about this concert.
Another set of music will include pieces from 18th-century Scotland and Ireland including “The Yellow Hair’d Laddie” and “The Irish Cry.”
On solo lute, Timofeyev will perform arrangements of “I Love My Love, In Secret,” and “Down the Burne Davie.”
Russian and European compositions from Beethoven’s time will be heard during the second half of the program on an eight-keyed flute made in London in 1820, and the Russian seven-string guitar, the only guitar used in Russia through the early 20th century, the press material said.
The Stanwood Area Historical Society and the Salish Sea Early Music Festival are presenting this concert, which will start at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Floyd Norgaard Cultural Center, 27130 102nd Ave. NW, Stanwood.
Refreshments will be served following the concert. Suggested donation is $15. Youth 18 and under are free.
For further information call the Stanwood Area Historical Society at 360-629-6110 or go to www.concertspirituel.org.
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