Join OCMF for the final two weekends of Season 45! Visit www.OtterCreekMusicFestival.com for more information and to snag your tickets!
July 26 | 7:30 PM | Salisbury Congregational Church: Point CounterPoint continues its summer-long series featuring its illustrious faculty. This program includes music by Piazolla, Price, and Brahms.
July 27 | 7:00 PM | Clemmons Family Farm: Castle of our Skins presents "At Home," marking their OCMF debut, honoring Clemmons Family Farm's legacy as one of the rare African-American owned farms from the civil rights era. COOS will perform string quartets by Black composers, including Daniel Bernard Roumain, Shelley Washington, William Grant Still, Fred Onovwerosuoke, and Adolphus Hailstork.
July 28 | 3:00 PM | Middlebury Community Music Center: A pianist with "an exquisite sense of touch, color, and musical imagination" (Washington Post), Michael Arnowitt makes his Festival debut performing the works of Chopin, Ravel, and contemporary works by Canadian composer John Kameel Farah and Ukrainian composer Victoria Poleva. The afternoon ends with Beethoven's sublime 32nd piano sonata, Op. 111. Free admission provided for MCMC students.
August 2 | 7:30 PM | Salisbury Meetinghouse: A finalist in several national songwriting competitions, including Just Plain Folks, Solarfest, and Ploughshares, local Vermonter Patrick Fitzsimmons has opened for the likes of Bob Dylan, David Crosby, and Dave Matthews Band. He makes his OCMF debut performing covers and originals of great Americana.
August 3 | 7:30 PM | Salisbury Meetinghouse: Formidable local Vermont artists Helen Lyons (soprano) and Elaine Greenfield (piano) remount their January 2024 song recital program of all women composers at the Salisbury Meetinghouse, including Florence Price, Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann, Fanny Mendelssohn, Margaret Bonds, and the lesser known 19th century French composer Pauline Viardot-Garcia.