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Bard's Baroque is composed of Mardou Case and Art Whitfield, wind synthesizer and flute players capturing musical textures written long ago. With a timespan from the 1200's up to the mid 1700's, this Renaissance and Baroque music harkens back to the time of Shakespeare, Henry VIII, and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The music is largely written for wooden recorders, but has been adapted for the wind synthesizer by the performers. Some additional parts have been custom written by the performers to more suitably fit a duo arrangment. With no vocals and minimal sound reinforcement, this music softly fills the performance area, providing the ideal background music for many occasions.

Wind Synthesizers resemble electronic clarinets, but allow the music to be played with a greater range of musical sounds, including trumpets, violins, cellos, english horns, and clarinets. Originally the duets had been arranged for either acoustic flutes or flute/wind synthesizer combination, but now both performers play wind synthesizers.

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Bard's Baroque setlist includes: Sellengers Round, Summer Is A Cumen In, Phyllis On The New Made Hay, Dulcina, A Lover and His Lass, Lilliburlero, Walsingham, What If A Day, Ubi Caritas, Ode to Joy, and many more baroque and ancient pieces.

Composers/Arrangers include: Dr. William Crotch, Henry VIII, Bach, Handel, William Byrd, Thomas Campion, John Playford, Henry Purcell, John of Fornsete