Strings Music Festival

Schedule of Events:

10am: Music on the Green: The Little Moon Travelers

Join us every Wednesday morning this summer for our weekly free concert series, co-presented by the Yampa River Botanic Park. With concerts lasting just 45 minutes, it's the perfect way to enjoy a summer morning.

Joining us this week are The Little Moon Travelers! The Little Moon Travelers blend folk, old time and roots Americana influences to produce a sound that harkens to times past. The band took shape in a local hideaway called Little Moon Trail in the hills of Steamboat Springs, Colorado. During the covid lockdown, these musicians gathered around the fire pit with their instruments. These unrehearsed get-togethers helped them and many others ward off the restlessness we all felt. The informal strumming sessions invited those listening to put aside their worries and connect more freely with each other in the present moment. They are thrilled to bring to the world their brand of live roots music.

7pm: Twilight Yoga

Bring your yoga mat and bug spray to sunset classes in our beautiful Festival Park. Teachers from Harmony Yoga lead all-levels classes to the sounds of Strings’ classical evening concert. Harmony classes focus on breath for grounding, movement for alignment of energy and extra long savasana for embodiment of our practice. Following the event, join your fellow yogis in a non-alcoholic drink reception as the sun sets on Mt. Werner. Come for the yoga, stay for community connection. Dress in layers for varying weather.

All ages welcome. $10 suggested donation benefits Strings.

Yoga will be canceled in bad weather. Call 970-89+5056x105 to confirm if class is running as scheduled.

Parking: please park in the Meadows Lot, across Pine Grove Rd. — enter at 1165 Bangtail Way. Classes take place in Strings Festival Park at the corner of Mt. Werner Road. and Pine Grove Road.

7pm: Baroque Masterworks with Soprano Joélle Harvey

Starts at $65

Baroque-era composers prized the trumpet’s majestic and valiant attributes and discovered its ideal match in the soprano voice. Discover magnificent music for this duo from some of the greatest composers of all time, including J. S. Bach and George Friedrich Handel. A more intimate approach for trumpet and voice is displayed in three arias by the Neapolitan opera composer Domenico Scarlatti, and Vivaldi’s concerto for two trumpets adds a brilliant virtuosic touch to the evening.

Program

Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata BWV No. 51 "Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"
(1685-1750)
Aria
Recitative
Aria
Chorale-Aria (“Alleluja”)

Antonio Vivaldi Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major, RV 537
(1678-1741) Allegro
Largo
Allegro

Alessandro Scarlatti Three Arie con Tromba Sola
(1660-1725) Con voce festiva
Mio tesoro
Rompe sprezza

Johann Sebastian Bach Duet for Violin and Cello No. 3 in G Major, BWV 804

George Frideric Handel "Let the Bright Seraphim" from "Samson"

No children under 6.