Schedule of Events:

11:00 AM: BAROQUE ACADEMY WORKSHOP CONCERT

Join the students of the Virginia Baroque Academy for their final performance of a very special project to be announced soon!

Location: Martin Chapel, EMU Campus

Cost: Free

1:00 PM: BOOK NOTES! KIDS CONCERT

NoNieqa Ramos, author and storyteller
SVBF Musicians

Families, gather around for live music and storytelling featuring local children’s book author NoNieqa Ramos and Bach Festival orchestra musicians! We’ll read stories, play music, and have a fun instrument show and tell. Kids can dance and sing and move around, whatever feels good to you!

Location: Central Library, Downtown Harrisonburg

Cost: Free

6:00 PM: TALKING MUSIC

Pre-concert "Talking Music" discussion panel with David Berry (SVBF Artistic Director) and SVBF artists.

Talks are free with Festival Concert ticket purchase!

Location: Lehman Auditorium, EMU Campus

7:30 PM: FESTIVAL CONCERT III

Kalena Bovell, conductor
Sara Duchovnay, soprano

Unity will be explored in this concert through a wonderful and vibrant overture entitled Umoja (which means unity in Swahili) by Valerie Coleman, Strauss's transcendent Last four Songs, and Tippett's great World War II choral masterwork A Child of Our Time, that focuses on the tragic struggle that division brings.

Location: Lehman Auditorium, EMU Campus

Cost: $10-$40

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