About Salish Sea Players
Salish Sea Players is a Baroque chamber music group (two Baroque vioins, cello, and guests-Baroque oboe, recorder, and harpsichord) dedicated to bringing high quality performances to people in retirement homes and long term care facilities. We are a Professional Affiliate of the Early Music Guild of Seattle
We’ve got some exciting news: We’re teaming up with Groupon Grassroots, the philanthropic arm of Groupon, to fund a project impacts our community–coming April 4th! Grassroots is a community outreach initiative within Groupon that brings people together to do good, … Continue reading →
The Salish Sea Players performed a concert of violin duets last night as part of the Valentine’s Day celebrations at the University House in Wallingford. We were told that our audience would be smaller than normal because many residents were … Continue reading →
On January 17th Olga and I performed for the Merrill Gardens-Northgate crowd (the very first Merrill Gardens facility) as part of their 20th anniversary celebrations. All the Merrill Gardens facilities took part at the same time around the country and … Continue reading →
We put together a Holiday program that includes the Corelli Christmas Concerto, a few charming Nöels set by Charpentier, and ending with some Christmas Carols: O Tannenbaum, Deck the Halls, and Silent Night. We like the whole program—it’s all beautiful, … Continue reading →
On Halloween we performed at the University House, Wallingford and we had a ball!! I believe our audience did too. For this Halloween show, Olga arranged a couple of “scary” pieces to add to our program (the theme from Alfred … Continue reading →
I just received a Doodle of the Salish Sea Players drawn by Ward Vaughn. Mr. Vaughn is a resident of the Ida Culver House-Broadview and he is a young 97 years old. He was at our concert in July 2012 … Continue reading →
OCTOBER 11, 2012 (10-11-12!) It was lovely to return to the scene of our very first concert, which was March 8, 2012! (To date we have performed 16 concerts.) Ida Culver House, Ravenna is a very pleasant setting, the audience … Continue reading →
The other day I was making phone calls and sending emails to various senior facilities to book some shows. I had an interesting experience with one Activities Director in particular– She and I were exchanging emails about the Salish Sea … Continue reading →
At Ida Culver House-Ravenna: A small well-dressed woman waited until after the show and I was alone to approach me. She then shared that when she was a child she would play at the feet of her brother, a violinist, … Continue reading →
On Friday afternoon, September 7th the violin duo of The Salish Sea Players performed for a choice audience at Prestige Care in Edmonds. There were about 15 in the audience, mostly in wheelchairs. The concert was in a dining room, … Continue reading →
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