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Enchanting Music for your 
Northern California 
Wedding or Special Event

Now Booking 2010 Weddings

Serving the San Francisco Bay, 
Wine Country, Sacramento, 
and San Jose areas

Our first public performance for the New Year was Friday, February 5, 2010. We performed reception music at the opening of the San Francisco Bay Flyway Festival. Guests enjoyed a  preview of Dorothy Barth's forthcoming anthology of Celtic duo arrangements, Green, Songs that Celebrate Our Natural World. 

Please contact us if you would like us to perform Green at your Earth Day event in April!

But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world was the wind-musique when the angel comes down, which is so sweet that it ravished me, ....I remained all night transported, so as I could not believe that ever any music hath that real command over the soul of man as did this upon me...." 
from the Diary of Samuel Pepys (1668)

New: From Bel Air to Belvedere...From San Francisco to San Diego.... By special arrangement, flutes of fancy is now available for Southern California Weddings

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Classical  *  Baroque  *  Renaissance *  Celtic *  Folkloric

Let flutes of fancy create a magical mood for your Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Marin, San Francisco, San Jose, or Sacramento wedding or special event. A classically trained duo based in Northern California, flutes of fancy provides music for traditional weddings, theme weddings, and other special events.  flutes of fancy can perform on violin and recorder as well as two recorders.

Having a wedding soon but haven't yet decided on your music? flutes of fancy is superbly organized to accommodate late requests with no loss in magic!

Music for your California Destination Wedding. For those traveling to the Northern California Wine Country from out of state for your wedding, flutes of fancy's
large selection of online sound samples will make it easy and enjoyable to select your ceremony music.

Photo by Jose Garza

By request, flutes of fancy can perform in Renaissance or Medieval costume for theme weddings and events.

Photo by Avalon Arts Studio

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For your planning convenience, we've moved all duo sound samples to the following pages:

  • Wedding Page - Listen to traditional processionals and recessionals as well as some "less traveled by" that we enjoy playing.

  • Renaissance Page Includes sound samples for those planning a Renaissance, Medieval, or English Country Garden event. This page includes selections from Playford Promenade, our special Playford wedding duo arrangements. 

  • Celtic Page - Enjoy samples of Celtic music for your theme wedding or event. 

  • Music ideas for a  wedding reception or cocktail hour

 

flutes of fancy's previous venues

In Northern California: 
Benicia in Bloom, Daffodil  High Tea at Mare Island, Dunsmuir Estate, Elliston Vineyards (Sunol), Embassy Suites Milpitas, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Francisco, Four Points Sheraton (Pleasanton), Green Valley Country Club, Healdsburg Green Show for As You Like It,  Healdsburg Historic Homes Tour, Inn at the Tides (Bodega Bay), Kenwood Community Church, Lodi Woodbridge Winegrape Commission, Magnolia Terrace, Montmartre Art Supplies, Mountain Terrace (Woodside), Music in the Mansion (Mare Island), Napa Holiday Candlelight Tour,  Sand Rock Farm (Aptos), Sebastiani Vineyards and Winery, Shinn Historical Park and Arboretum (Fremont), Solano Symphony Home Tour, St. Basil the Great Catholic Church (Vallejo), St. Peter's Chapel (Mare Island), Summerville at Villa Del Rey, Sunrise Assisted Living, Tannery Building (Benicia), The Springs of Napa, Testarossa Vineyards (Los Gatos), USA World Classics Event Center, Vallejo  (Titanic Gala), Villa Amorosa, Wente Vineyards (Livermore), Westlake House Springs Retirement Living, Westlake Leisure Gardens 
In Central California:
Chaffee Zoological Gardens, Clovis Arts in the Garden, Clos La Chance, Copper River Country Club, Fairwinds Woodward Park, Love & Garlic Banquet Hall, Fresno Art Museum, Fresno City College Renaissance Festival, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Gottschalks, McHenry Mansion, Meux Home Museum, River Park, People's Church, San Joaquin Gardens, Shinzen Friendship Garden, St. Paul Newman Center Renaissance Festival, Cambria Historical Society Heritage Day, Ducey's at the Pines Resort (Bass Lake), Hanford Renaissance of Kings Cultural Arts Faire, Monterey Plaza Hotel, People's Church,  Shaver Lake Chapel, The Old Schoolhouse (Madera), The Remington (Hanford), Wine and Roses (Lodi), Wolf Lakes Park (Sanger)
In Southern California:
In San Diego County: Heritage Park, Hotel Del Coronado, La Jolla Historical Society, La Jolla Wedding Bowl, Quail Botanical Gardens, Rancho Buena Vista Adobe, Rancho Guajome Adobe,  Bahia Hotel,  Darlington House, The Old Globe Theatre
In Ojai: Rains Department Store, The Gables 

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Sheet Music Arrangements and Compositions by Dorothy Barth

Enchanting music will inspire
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Travels with flutes of fancy

Along the Cliff Walk in Newport, RI, 
April 2009

Dunsmuir Historic Estate

Water Music in Astoria

Rainforest Recorders

Our Trip to the Big Island

A Tenor on the Titanic

Safari Night, Fresno, CA

Back to school is back to song
Bring SheetMusicPlus along!

 Classical Duo in Vallejo

Key words: flutes of fancy, Northern California wedding musicians, Bay Area wedding duo, San Francisco Bay area ceremony musicians, Sacramento wedding musicians, recorder and violin, costumed Renaissance musicians, Celtic sheet music by Dorothy van Joolen Barth, Northern California's  wedding minstrels