Piffaro, the Renaissance Band has delighted audiences around the world for over four decades with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. They bring the sounds of the Renaissance to life with their ever-expanding instrumentarium of shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion - all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period and the only professional collection of its kind in North America. Piffaro Its musicians appear as performers and instructors at major Early Music festivals and has released 19 commercial recordings, available at for purchase at piffaro.org. Priscilla Herreid, artistic director Grant Herreid Greg Ingles Erik Schmalz