Sarah Mead discovered her sound at a young age through a unique instrument — the viola da gamba. Familiarly known as the ‘viol’ with a similar appearance to a cello, this instrument has six strings, ...

The instrument in Barrett Sills' hand might look like a cello, but it has seven strings rather than the cello's four, and its body is slimmer. Sills is holding a viola da gamba, a favorite of France's ...

Indie-singer-songwriter Lindsay Mac straps a cello to her body and plucks it like a guitar, while singing intimate songs of bewilderment and love. The multi-talented Mac returns to A’roma Roasters in ...

The San Francisco Early Music Society presents the Yukimi Kambe Viol Consort, a quartet of Japanese women who play the viola da gamba, a 16th and 17th century European stringed instrument. There will ...

Viola da gamba players are a special breed — a tiny subset in the already small world of early classical music. They rarely meet their own kind, but once a year they come together for a week in July ...

The 88th annual Bach Festival comes to a close this weekend with the chance for Central Florida music fans to experience two instruments rarely heard these days. The harpsichord had its heyday in ...