Gut, Wind, and Wire is an instrumental trio formed by founding members of the Baltimore Consort, one of the most well-known and beloved early music ensembles in the US. Featuring Ronn McFarlane on lute (Gut); Mindy Rosenfeld on wooden flutes, fifes, and pipes (Wind); and Mark Cudek on cittern (Wire), bass viol, and percussion; the trio performs popular music of the Renaissance from England, Scotland, Italy, and France, as well as traditional Celtic music. In addition to early music from the time of Shakespeare and Queen Elizabeth, performed on period instruments, they also play Grammy-nominated original music by Ronn McFarlane.
- Mark Cudek (cittern, viol, crumhorn, recorder, whistle, renaissance guitar, and percussion) is Chair of the Historical Performance Department at the Peabody Conservatory of Johns Hopkins University and Artistic Director of the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. In recognition of his work as Founder/Director of the Peabody Renaissance Ensemble and the High School Early Music Program at the Interlochen Arts Camp, Mark received from Early Music America the 2001 Thomas Binkley Award and the 2005 Award for Outstanding Contribution to Early Music Education.
- Ronn McFarlane (lute) has released over 40 CDs on Dorian and Sono Luminus, including solo collections, lute songs, lute duets, music for flute & lute, Elizabethan lute music and poetry, the complete lute music of Vivaldi, and Baltimore Consort albums. In the tradition of the lutenist/composer of past centuries, Ronn has composed new music for the lute. Ronn's newest solo album, The Celtic Lute, features his arrangements of traditional Scottish and Irish music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
- Mindy Rosenfeld (flute, fife, and bagpipes) is a founding member of the Baltimore Consort. She plays historic and modern flutes; recorders, whistles, crumhorns, bagpipe and early harp. A member of San Francisco's Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, she has performed under director Nicholas McGegan and guest conductors William Christie, Jordi Savall, Gustav Leonhardt, Andrew Parrott, Andrew Manze, Bernard Labadie and Trevor Pinnock; recorded extensively; and appeared in Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, the Berkeley Early Music Festival, BBC Proms (Royal Albert Hall), Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) and both Carnegie and Disney Halls.
The Baltimore Consort (of which this trio is a subset) was founded in 1980 to perform the instrumental music of Shakespeare’s time. They have gone on to explore the popular music of England, Scotland, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain, as well as into the traditional music of today that is rooted in earlier times.