SUNDAY, JULY 3
Downtown Turners Falls
Join us for the first-ever Antenna Cloud Farm Music Walk, a village-wide festival showcasing the multi-faceted world of virtuoso percussion and celebrating businesses and public spaces throughout town.
This event takes place in Turners Falls / Great Falls, and will feature free live performances by world-renowned artists, a hands-on workshop, and several Artist Discovery Listening Stations throughout town, where wanderers can connect to a lovingly curated musical journey featuring uniquely talented artists, all while enjoying the shops, restaurants, and public spaces in town.
All concerts are FREE with suggested donation to our partner organization, Nolumbeka Project, in support of the 9th Annual Pocumtuck Homelands Festival.
The Antenna Cloud Farm Music Walk is in partnership with RiverCulture and Greenfield Cooperative Bank.
SCHEDULE:
1pm | TAIKO DEMONSTRATION WITH KAORU WATANABE @ Unity Skate Park
2pm|: I-SHEA & KARIM SUMUN@ Unity Skate Park
Third culture musicians blend the best of the Caribbean & South East Asia and the Top Ten on daytime soulful world radio.
3pm FAMILY EVENT WITH MARCIE GREGOIRE @Unity Skate Park
Children’s Costume Parade to the Discovery Center
4pm| MATAN RUBINSTEIN @ Spinner Park.
Improvised set with a Mbira, Toy Piano, computer and, quite possibly, anything within arm’s reach by this talented composer and Associate Professor of Music & Sound Studies at Emerson College
5pm| XY MARIMBA DUO @ Peskeompskut Park.
Twin sister virtuosi Xingyue and Xingyao play duets and solos on the marimba.
6pm| LILY-RAKIA CHANDLER @ Peskeompskut Park. Intro by David Brule.
From Hip hop to Mohawk Chant, Lily-Rakia Chandler performs original and traditional songs.
7pm | KAORU WATANABE @ Peskeompskut Park.
Innovative original compositions by one of the world’s leading performers of taiko drums and fue (Japanese flute)
