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FESTIVAL FILM SCREENING

04 Sara’s Harmony Way
Wednesday July 8 at 6:30pm FREE

Film: Crescendo! The Power of Music
Screening Hosts: Christopher Layer and Filmaker Jamie Bernstein

Hosted by Christopher Layer with special guest Jamie Bernstein, director

This year we have chosen “Crescendo! The Power Of Music”* by director Jamie Bernstein and producer Elizabeth Kling
as our offical 2015 New Harmony Music Festival Selection. This joyous celebration of music, education, and the
young people who play music today because of “El Sistema”, is a festival must-see. Ms. Bernstein will join us to introduce
this evening’s film through a collaborative effort between the New Harmony Music Festival Summer School and the
Leonard Bernstein Family Foundation. Additionally, she will be working with our festival students on Thursday afternoon.
(Time and location TBA.)

*Indiana premier.

05 TRAD JAM SESSION # 2

Sara’s Harmony Way
Wednesday July 8 at 8:00pm until ? FREE

Featuring music festival students, locals, and festival artists

In New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Montreal, and of course Ireland and Scotland, Sunday afternoons are
often reserved for a “session” of traditional music at the local pub. Fiddlers, pipers, singers, bards, listeners, talkers,
gawkers, German tourists, drinkers, thinkers, smilers, frowners, ladies and gentlemen and most of the kids all pile in,
while the musicians tune up, sip the foam off the top of their new pint of black beer, catch up on the week’s news,
and begin leading each other through old tunes and new, each player recalling a jig or a rake of reels, while the other
players chime in, and the crafty tunes come to life, never having been written down.

In this way, the little group of players forms a sort of living library of traditional music during the scant three hours
that the session lasts. As the day expires and the sun sets, the evening crowd wins out: the band gives the pub over
to the night-time dart leagues, the satellite soccer fans, and the singles with high hopes. The session players retire,
stash their instruments, slug down the last of their foamy beers and head off to a “curry” or the “chippie” or just home
to their beds, still humming the odd tune, as one might say, or the remembered lines of a song.

In the spirit of olden days before gigantic speakers and roaring televisions ruled the pub, and out of courtesy to your fellow listeners,
guests are asked to please keep conversations low when music is in progress, particularly if a singer is singing.

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