"Living Roots of Music"
Lauren Pelon traces the story of music and instruments throughout history and performs music from the 1st to the 21st centuries on archlute, guitar, lute-guitar, lyre, recorders, gemshorns, cornamuse, krummhorn, schreierpfeife, shawm, rackett, pennywhistles, concertina, ocarina, hurdy-gurdy, psaltery, eagle bone flute, Kiowa courting flute, electric wind instrument, pedalboard, and voice. Pelon's compositions are featured, along with music from ancient Greece, medieval and renaissance Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
Pelon's educational & entertaining programs have been presented in venues throughout the world -- from the Russian Institute for the History of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia to the Siamsa Tire National Folk Theatre in Ireland; from the Conservatory of Music in Almaty, Kazakhstan to The Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston, Texas; from the Ramshorn Theatre in Glasgow, Scotland to the Glenstal Abbey in Ireland; and from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor to Southern Cross University in New South Wales.
