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About the Chamber Arts Festival
Welcome to the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown, an annual series of classical chamber music concerts and recital by distinguished artists and ensembles, in New York's exquisite Hudson Valley. The Festival is dedicated to preserving the vitality of the art of chamber music in American culture, and to playing an active role in chamber music's continuing evolution.
Our 2005 debut season celebrates the coming-together of musical cultures in six imaginative programs suitable for the chamber music aficionado and novice alike. Concert stake place at the 300-seat Marbletown Reformed Church at 3750 Main Street (Route 209), in Stone Ridge, one of a core of historic buildings that gives the hamlet its distinctive character and charm .Gracious, intimate, and acoustically superb, the church is a perfect venue for a world-class chamber music experience.
Offstage, the Chamber Arts Festival of Marbletown offers community and educational outreach programs, including classroom encounters with Festival artists in the local schools, a scholarship program for graduating seniors pursuing music studies in college, and a free pre-season discussion series led by Artistic Director David Alpher.
A popular weekend tourist destination, historic Marbletown, New York, lies just 20 minutes from NYS Thruway Exits 18 (New Paltz) and 19 (Kingston), and 25 minutes from Woodstock. Marbletown, comprising the hamlets of Stone Ridge and High Falls, offers dramatic mountain views, sylvan waterfalls, 18th-century stone houses, artists' studios, welcoming B&Bs, creative restaurants, and one-of-a-kind boutiques. The Festival is a natural fit with Marbletown's community of painters, potters, jewelers, photographers, writers, musicians, filmmakers, actors, and chefs.This arts-rich environment offers a variety of activities between concerts: gallery-hopping, museum-going, spectacular hiking, flea-marketing, antiquing, fine dining, or just strolling the beautifully-preserved streets of Marbletown's charming old hamlets.
Chamber Arts of Festival of Marbletown
P.O. Box 663, Stone Ridge, NY 12484
(845) 687-2687 info@chamberartsfestival.org
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