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The Grand Canyon Music Festival will present its 26th annual season from Sept. 11 to Sept. 26, 2009, with weekend and mid-week concerts in Grand Canyon National Park.
The festival will also conduct its annual outreach tour at Grand Canyon School and to Native American reservation schools in Arizona.
Founded in 1983, the Grand Canyon Music Festival (www.grandcanyonmusicfest.org) brings world-renowned artists to Arizona for performances, outreach, and educational programs in rural and underserved communities at affordable admission prices.
This annual three-week series of concerts emphasizes the broad diversity of chamber music and celebrates the environment of the Grand Canyon's majestic setting.
For 2009, the program will include "Founders and Friends" with Grand Canyon Music Festival founders Clare Hoffman, flute, and Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica, and friends Dorothy Lawson, cello, Ralph Farris, viola, and Cornelius Dufallo, violin.
Also performing will be the Enso Quartet, the Bonfiglio Group, and ETHEL'S TruckStop, in collaboration with Navajo artist James Bilagody, and Bluegrass legend Dean Osborne.
There also will be three free community events during the festival. They include the Native American Composer Apprentice Project with the stringband ETHEL, the School of Rock with the Bonfiglio Group, and ‘A Tusayan Shindig' with the Bonfiglio Group.
This year's festival schedule includes:
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12: ETHEL Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Mary Rowell, violin ETHEL's TruckStop with James Bilagody and Bluegrass great Dean Osborne.
The rock-driven, post-classical band ETHEL opens the Grand Canyon Music Festival's 26th season. Musically omnivorous, prolific, and passionate, "America's favorite string band" incorporates rock, blues, classical, jazz and other popular genres to create a sound that defies categorization.
Friday Sept. 18: The Bonfiglio Group and "Bach Porch" Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; Joe Deninzon, violin, guitar, mandolin; Chris Milletari, guitar.
Heralded by the Boston Globe as the "Master of the Harmonica, (whose) playing is something you have to hear to believe", Grand Canyon Music Festival founder Robert Bonfiglio returns with his group "Bach Porch" featuring Joe Deninzon - called by critics the "Jimi Hendrix of the violin" - and composer/vocalist/guitarist Chris Milletari performing new works in their signature "contemporary and sophisticated" style drawing on jazz, rock, blues, folk and classical music.
Saturday, Sept. 19: "Founders and Friends" Grand Canyon Music Festival founders Clare Hoffman, flute, and Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica, perform with friends Dorothy Lawson, cello, Ralph Farris, viola, and Cornelius Dufallo, violin.
The Grand Canyon Music Festival's founders return to center stage and are joined by long-time friends (and ETHEL members) to perform Peter Schikele's "A Little Welcome Serenade", Mozart's Flute Quartet in D Major, and Stephen Foster Medley for Harmonica, Flute and Strings, arranged by Boston Pops arranger Eric Knight.
Free Community Events and Locations
Friday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m., Shrine of the Ages: The Grand Canyon Music Festival's School of Rock celebrates its third season with Bonfiglio Group members Chris Milletari and Joe Deninzon and Grand Canton School's own band of talented rockers. This free community pre-concert student recital at Shrine of the Ages begins at 6 p.m.
Saturday, Sept.19 at 2 p.m., Canyon Plaza Resort Grand Canyon outside the park entrance in Tusayan: "A Tusayan Shindig," a free, informal family-friendly event with the Bonfiglio Group
Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 at 5 p.m., Grand Canyon Community Building Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP): The GCMF's seminal education outreach project, NACAP, culminates in a day long fair for students, families and the community with the new music ensemble ETHEL and composer-in-residence Raven Chacon. Concert at 5 p.m. of works by the Grand Canyon Music Festival's NACAP students at Grand Canyon Community Building.
Regular performances will be held at the Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, starting at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $15 for adults, and $8 for children (age six and up) and students. For more information, call (800) 997-8285 or visit the Web site at www.grandcanyonmusicfest.org
The festival began when founders Robert Bonfiglio (director) and Clare Hoffman (artistic director) were hiking through the canyon and the head ranger asked if they would play a concert for a retiring ranger.
They agreed and performed an impromptu concert at the Cottonwood Campground below the North Rim. Encouraged by the local community and businesses, the inaugural season took place in September 1984 and has grown from three concerts to nine concerts that span a three-week period.
The Grand Canyon Music Festival is sponsored by Grand Canyon National Park and is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts, and partial funding from a variety of source.
Since 1984, the Festival has served Native American communities within the state, including the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, and Pima Indian Reservations, the Heard Museum, and Scottsdale Community College.
The festival will also conduct its annual outreach tour at Grand Canyon School and to Native American reservation schools in Arizona.
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Founded in 1983, the Grand Canyon Music Festival (www.grandcanyonmusicfest.org) brings world-renowned artists to Arizona for performances, outreach, and educational programs in rural and underserved communities at affordable admission prices.
This annual three-week series of concerts emphasizes the broad diversity of chamber music and celebrates the environment of the Grand Canyon's majestic setting.
For 2009, the program will include "Founders and Friends" with Grand Canyon Music Festival founders Clare Hoffman, flute, and Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica, and friends Dorothy Lawson, cello, Ralph Farris, viola, and Cornelius Dufallo, violin.
Also performing will be the Enso Quartet, the Bonfiglio Group, and ETHEL'S TruckStop, in collaboration with Navajo artist James Bilagody, and Bluegrass legend Dean Osborne.
There also will be three free community events during the festival. They include the Native American Composer Apprentice Project with the stringband ETHEL, the School of Rock with the Bonfiglio Group, and ‘A Tusayan Shindig' with the Bonfiglio Group.
This year's festival schedule includes:
Friday and Saturday, Sept. 11-12: ETHEL Cornelius Dufallo, violin; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Mary Rowell, violin ETHEL's TruckStop with James Bilagody and Bluegrass great Dean Osborne.
The rock-driven, post-classical band ETHEL opens the Grand Canyon Music Festival's 26th season. Musically omnivorous, prolific, and passionate, "America's favorite string band" incorporates rock, blues, classical, jazz and other popular genres to create a sound that defies categorization.
Friday Sept. 18: The Bonfiglio Group and "Bach Porch" Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica; Joe Deninzon, violin, guitar, mandolin; Chris Milletari, guitar.
Heralded by the Boston Globe as the "Master of the Harmonica, (whose) playing is something you have to hear to believe", Grand Canyon Music Festival founder Robert Bonfiglio returns with his group "Bach Porch" featuring Joe Deninzon - called by critics the "Jimi Hendrix of the violin" - and composer/vocalist/guitarist Chris Milletari performing new works in their signature "contemporary and sophisticated" style drawing on jazz, rock, blues, folk and classical music.
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Saturday, Sept. 19: "Founders and Friends" Grand Canyon Music Festival founders Clare Hoffman, flute, and Robert Bonfiglio, harmonica, perform with friends Dorothy Lawson, cello, Ralph Farris, viola, and Cornelius Dufallo, violin.
The Grand Canyon Music Festival's founders return to center stage and are joined by long-time friends (and ETHEL members) to perform Peter Schikele's "A Little Welcome Serenade", Mozart's Flute Quartet in D Major, and Stephen Foster Medley for Harmonica, Flute and Strings, arranged by Boston Pops arranger Eric Knight.
Free Community Events and Locations
Friday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m., Shrine of the Ages: The Grand Canyon Music Festival's School of Rock celebrates its third season with Bonfiglio Group members Chris Milletari and Joe Deninzon and Grand Canton School's own band of talented rockers. This free community pre-concert student recital at Shrine of the Ages begins at 6 p.m.
Saturday, Sept.19 at 2 p.m., Canyon Plaza Resort Grand Canyon outside the park entrance in Tusayan: "A Tusayan Shindig," a free, informal family-friendly event with the Bonfiglio Group
Sunday, Sept. 20, 2009 at 5 p.m., Grand Canyon Community Building Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP): The GCMF's seminal education outreach project, NACAP, culminates in a day long fair for students, families and the community with the new music ensemble ETHEL and composer-in-residence Raven Chacon. Concert at 5 p.m. of works by the Grand Canyon Music Festival's NACAP students at Grand Canyon Community Building.
Regular performances will be held at the Shrine of the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, starting at 7:30 p.m. Ticket prices are $15 for adults, and $8 for children (age six and up) and students. For more information, call (800) 997-8285 or visit the Web site at www.grandcanyonmusicfest.org
The festival began when founders Robert Bonfiglio (director) and Clare Hoffman (artistic director) were hiking through the canyon and the head ranger asked if they would play a concert for a retiring ranger.
They agreed and performed an impromptu concert at the Cottonwood Campground below the North Rim. Encouraged by the local community and businesses, the inaugural season took place in September 1984 and has grown from three concerts to nine concerts that span a three-week period.
The Grand Canyon Music Festival is sponsored by Grand Canyon National Park and is supported by the Arizona Commission on the Arts with funding from the State of Arizona and the National Endowment for the Arts, and partial funding from a variety of source.
Since 1984, the Festival has served Native American communities within the state, including the Navajo, Hopi, Havasupai, and Pima Indian Reservations, the Heard Museum, and Scottsdale Community College.
