Added: 09/30/2005 |
Choose your favorite music art festivalA music art festival is a festival, dealing with a particular theme or genre of music. Generally, the tradition of the music art festival goes back to the ancient times. Today, a number of music festivals runs to hundreds all over the world. Commonly, any music art festival lasts annually for three-five days and includes the celebrations of centennials, a lot of music performances by big name artists and new performers, fairs, fireworks and many other attractions. A music art festival annually gathers thousands of people to honor the best-known musicians from all over the world.
Sometimes, a music art festival is a free-admission event (for instance, the Chicago blues festival), or an event with comparatively low prices. The aim of each particular festival is to make different genres of music accessible to a great number of people at low prices or even free of charge. Therefore, if you are a great music lover or you want to visit this or that music art festival, you will do it without large expenses. Let us have a look at several events of different genres as their basis, which are worth visiting.
If you like classical music, you will never be bored at the Ottawa International Chamber Music festival. The event usually takes place in the end of July and in the beginning of August and lasts for ten days. This is the largest in the world chamber music festivals and the most significant cultural event in Canada, attracting thousands of classical music lovers from across Canada as well as from all over the world. More than two hundred and fifty top chamber musicians make the audience happy during these days.
One more famous chamber music festival is the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, having the chamber musicians meet at the Yale Summer School of Music, the US. The Festival annually features more than thirty performances by many of the world's most recognized artists along with more than sixty new musicians, who are admitted to participate in the festival on a selective basis.
The Norfolk Chamber Music Festival is not only a number of concerts, but also a widely acclaimed center for a chamber music performance and professional study, innovative offerings and original programs. The spectacular action takes place on the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Estate's seventy acres of green lawns, magnificent gardens and historic buildings in the rural town of Norfolk in northwestern, Connecticut. Thus, you have a chance not only to listen to the world's "greatests", but also to enjoy peculiar and wonderful nature and surroundings. This is, probably, one of the oldest music festivals in the world, having celebrated its sixty third anniversary in 2005, though the tradition of music in Norfolk dates back more than a century.
The Austin city limits music festival is a music and art festival in Austin, Texas, annually held in September. It will be a great holiday for those, who like country, rock and mainstream music. The festival is programmed and organized by the Austin City Limits television show and Waterloo Music in Zilker Park with the performances on eight stages, with number of guests up to seventy five thousand people.
Tastes differ, and you, probably, do not like either chamber music or rock and country streams. Nevertheless, you can be assured that after having visited festivals of these genres, you will like them more than anything else in the world. Still, if you are a convinced fan of some other music genres, there is no problem. Choose the festival of your favorite one and enjoy the performance!
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