How to describe this colorful band of multi-instrumentalists? After hearing a few blazing Celtic and Slavic numbers, you might be tempted to peg The Wheat in the Barley as a fiddletune band. But listen again, as an achingly beautiful version of an ancient harp tune or an air on the flute floats you along in a reverie of chamber music stylings. Along the way, a few pit-stops in Spain, North Africa, the Middle East and South America will round out The Wheat in the Barley's world music tour. As a listening experience, their sound is detailed, sumptuous and more than a bit cheeky — a flying fiddle tune can easily take a detour into the land of the Beatles or an African percussion jam. Their creative arrangements are full of surprises, featuring trilling pennywhistles, rhythmic accordion, bluesy mouth-harp, passionate violin, searing saxophone and more, all against a backdrop of one of the finest rhythm sections in Southwestern B.C. Their storied songs feature up to 5-part vocal harmonies. The Wheat in the Barley are equally at home mesmerizing audiences from a concert stage or laying down irresistible grooves for the crowd on the dance-hall floor. Available for conventions, weddings, special events and festivals in four to six-piece configurations.