JAMAICA-Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival (PFCM) is returning to celebrate the 2025 summer season with an admission-free concert series. Concerts run Tuesday, Aug. 5, through Saturday, Aug. 9.
In the summer of 2012, Susanna Loewy founded a summer festival emphasizing music and visual art. In Jamaica, the foothills of the Green Mountains, Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival took root. Since then, PFCM has performed 67 concerts in southern Vermont, commissioned 14 World Premieres, and has shown 13 works of visual art, wrote organizers in a news release.
This year, PFCM will add four concerts and additional community events to celebrate this year in southern Vermont.
The Music Festival highlights musicians from the Inscape Chamber Orchestra in Washington, D.C., as well as musicians from in and around Vermont. As is PFCM's tradition, a piece by the festival's composer-in-residence will be performed at the concluding concert.
On Tuesday, Aug. 5, a children's program will be held in the morning at the Jamaica Library, and a garden concert and celebration will be at 3417 VT Route 30 in the evening. The festival's main performances will be held at the Jamaica Town Hall on Thursday and Sunday, Aug. 7 and 10, and at the Grafton Community Church on Friday, Aug. 8.
Throughout the week, PFCM will also perform private concerts for southern Vermont assisted living facilities in Manchester and Townshend.
For more information on the Pikes Falls Chamber Music Festival, visit pikesfallschambermusicfestival.com or email Executive Director Susanna Loewy at [email protected] or Managing Director Andy Sabol at [email protected].
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