2021 Salish Sea Early Music Festival Musical Fairy Tales ~ Sharing and Caring from Home in 2021 ~   -  -  -  -  - We express our deepest respect and gratitude to our indigenous neighbors. We're deeply moved and draw inspiration from the fact that we can make music surrounded by the ancestral homelands of the Swinomish, Coast Salish, Samish, Lummi, Nooksack, Chimacum, Duwamish, Snohomish, Stillaguamish and Skagit and other Peoples, who have cared for these lands and waterways for so long.   -  -  -  -  - Black Lives Matter.   -  -  -  -  - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBQOQVsdzbE <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBQOQVsdzbE> The President Sang Amazing Grace: Meklit and the Kronos Quartet (Oct 22, 2020) The President broke out in song! In their moving tribute Meklit and the Kronos Quartet make evident that his and all music is a language of the spirit that illuminates the empathy and compassion and love that permeate our endeavors, in the work place and at home. Music is caring and sharing. (The President sang Amazing Grace here <https://youtu.be/IN05jVNBs64>.) Thanks to the generosity of our donors we were able to provide the performers we heard earlier this year and all of those whose concerts with us were cancelled with a Covid-19 bonus, as professional free-lance musicians lost the majority of their work. We have no administrative expenses, and the remainder of our 2020 funds are earmarked for a very special set of musical celebrations when we are finally able to safely meet in person, particularly with those of our music-loving community who have no computer and no email. We're looking forward to a year of musical adventure! ...beginning with this third Fantasia by Giovanni Bassano for three instruments. Without subjecting musicians to travel and rehearsals together, we have plans for a colorful and unusual series of online programs, available at home and at every hour. There is much more to come and we'll appreciate having you along!   - Jeffrey https://youtu.be/eDpkfZICveU <https://youtu.be/eDpkfZICveU> Giovanni Bassano: Solos, Diminutions and Trios Fantasia 3 (1585) December 29, 2020 https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/salish-sea-early-music-festival-winging-it-at-a-high-level/ <https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/salish-sea-early-music-festival-winging-it-at-a-high-level/> Coinciding with our final concert of the 2020 season we were featured in an online Early Music America article by Philippa Kiraly <https://www.earlymusicamerica.org/web-articles/salish-sea-early-music-festival-winging-it-at-a-high-level/>. EMA /The Salish Sea Early Music Festival 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. /