An Italian, and likely Jewish, family of wind players moved to England during the reign of Henry VIII and extended the frontiers of instrumental music. The wind players of Piffaro look at one of the most potent examples of musical immigration in 16th century Europe - the story of the Bassano family.

“Widely regarded as North America's masters of music for Renaissance wind band” (St Paul Pioneer Press), Piffaro delights audiences throughout the world with highly polished recreations of the rustic music of the peasantry and the elegant sounds of the official wind bands of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods. Its musicians perform on shawms, dulcians, sackbuts, recorders, krumhorns, bagpipes, lutes, guitars, harps, and a variety of percussion — all careful reconstructions of instruments from the period.