The elusive dulcian, the rarely heard renaissance transverse flute and the lute will be showcased in an evening of 16th and early 17th-century chamber music entitled “Winds of the Renaissance” on Wednesday, May 13 at 7 p.m. at Grace Episcopal Church on Lopez Island.

Anna Marsh, who grew up in Tacoma, is one of the premier players of the dulcian, which evolved into today’s bassoon but was softer, much sweeter and more supple. Jeffrey Cohan is one of very few flutists who regularly perform solo music for the renaissance transverse flute. The two wind players team up with renaissance lutenist John Lenti, who is constantly in motion all around the country playing lutes and guitars of all sorts, in this first program in the Salish Sea Early Music Festival’s Spring Festival of three contrasting performances of renaissance, baroque and Beethoven-era chamber music.

This and all three programs are to be repeated on Orcas and San Juan Islands as well. See www.salishseafestival.org for the complete schedule. The 2015 Salish Sea Early Music Festival includes six programs of 16th to 19th-century chamber music on period instruments on Lopez Island, with special guests from Berlin and Lübeck, Germany, and from around the Northwest and the United States and Canada.