Istanpitta Istanpitta is a United States based ensemble performing music of the 10th to 14th century Middle Ages including many traditional Middle Eastern dances. Istanpitta has performed at Jones Hall in Houston and festivals and concerts in Texas, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Maryland, Florida and Missouri, Minnesota, and North Carolina. The ensemble has also performed at the Texas Medieval Association Conference and has performed at the 2005 Indianapolis Early Music festival. The ensemble consists of 3-5 musicians playing a variety of period instruments including Oud, Lute, Saz, Early Percussion, Shawms, Renaissance Recorders, Transverse Flutes, Krummhorns, Vielles, Medieval Harp and Bagpipes.

L'Ensemble Cercamon In the manner of the troubadour whose name the Ensemble has borrowed, Cercamon makes their art known both on stage, and among throngs of music-lovers while incorporating new sounds in their quest for unique musical experiences. Their creations exploit exceptional tones, produced by instruments from other periods and other lands, oriental as well as occidental. Hurdy-gurdy, oud, rauschpfeife, saz and bouzouki...all working together to yield a truly novel blend of music. Cercamon's energetic interpretation of musical works and songs drawn from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Era attracts large crowds. To these works represented from the past, the Ensemble adds its own compositions, bringing fresh new life to the music, and bringing music-lovers to their feet, dancing at festivals and other public events throughout Quebec and elsewhere in the world.

The Bedlam Bards are a musical group with two-and-a-half members; that is to say, usually there's two of them, but sometimes there's three. They play "Renfolk Music," that unique blend of Celtic, English, Scandinavian, and American folk music mixed in with period tunes from the Renaissance and Middle Ages that rubs shoulders with the occasional incognito rock song at most Renaissance festivals. And they have a lot of fun playing it.Their instruments include guitar, fiddle, mandola, bones, bodhran, pocket fiddle, pennywhistle, guitarron, mandolin, strumstick, kazoo, and voice.

Patrick Brown His repertoire is Medieval European music,,trans European, including the Cantigas from Northern Spain and the Lanquedoc/Midi, i. e. 'The Land of the Troubadors,' music from the Auvergne area of Central France, some old English, French and Italian pieces and also some Mid Eastern sounding pieces too, of Moorish and/or Asian Minor origin. He uses a Hungarian style hurdy gurdy known as a Tekerolant. It is quite loud, and carries well outdoors. It indeed developed in the church, in its earliest forms.

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