This video highlights a performance from the second season of Beethoven & Banjos - a festival featuring cross-genre collaboration between classical musicians and folk musicians. 2016 featured guest artists from the Finish-American duo Aallotar (Sara Pajunen and Teija Niku), members of the chamber collective Decoda (Meena Bhasin, Hamilton Berry, Evan Premo, and Anna Elashvili), and Laurel Premo. This piece, 'The Lonely Sparrow' is an arrangement of two traditional Finnish polskas. Videography by Zolton Cohen.

Find out more about the Beethoven & Banjos project at: www.beethovenandbanjos.org