CANTON — St. Lawrence University will host a traditional Japanese music group for two campus concerts on Sept. 19 and 20 as part of a four-day arts residency, titled “The Silk Road and Japanese Music: From Spain to Japan: How Ancient Trade Routes Continue to Connect Asia and the West.”

Sponsored by the Arts Collaborative, the Aeolian Duo will be led by Bruce Huebner, a renowned master of the Japanese bamboo flute known as the shakuhachi, Japanese guitarist Kôfû Suwa, and special guest Todd Isler on South Asian and Middle eastern percussion.

The first performance, titled “Japanese Traditional Music Lives Shakuhachi Bamboo Flute: The Zen Mendicant Tradition has a Voice in Jazz,” will take place from noon-1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 19, in the Skykes Zen Garden. The concert will move to Sykes Common Room in the event of rain.

The trio will also perform on from 7-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 20, at Sykes Commons Room. Both events will be free and open to the public.

Sykes Residence is located on Park Street across from the Brewer Bookstore in the Village of Canton.

The residency will offer hands-on workshops for students on Japanese instruments and non-Western instruments over the four days.

For more information, contact the Department of Religious Studies at 315-229-5128 or visit www.stlawu.edu/religious-studies.