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Summer Classes, Workshops and Camps
Get Inspired at Bagaduce Music
 
Music education and inspiration for all ages
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July 12, 5-6pm
Free and open to the general public; Come learn about our guided jam sessions.
 
 
Belt your heart out singing traditional shanties in St. Ayles skiffs in Blue Hill.
 
 
Ever wondered what there is beyond “Simple Gifts?” Learn simple, unadorned original Shaker Songs with professional New England song leaders as your guide. Share the songs in a concert at Burnt Cove Church on July 23rd at 7pm
 
 
August 6-12
Weeklong retreat for people who love to sing in harmony and in community; organized and run by Meg O’Dell with song leaders from around the Northeast.
Held on the Bagaduce Campus for the first time, with regional day trips.
 
 
Curious about these rare and unusual early instruments? Come learn, ask questions, and hear some of the world’s best players, members of the Baltimore Consort and Ensemble Galilei, explain and demonstrate how they work.
 
 
Listen and learn as one of America’s foremost blues musicians gives a rare and thrilling demonstration of his formidable ragtime chops.
 
Tickets are selling quickly for the
‘From Our Collection’ Concert Series!
Celebrating our 40th Anniversary
 
 
This is our flagship concert series highlighting music collected by our community over the last four decades, performed by world-class musicians. Staged in great outdoor and indoor venues around the region. 
 
Featuring:
 
July 8, 5-6pm, followed by Surry Contra Dance
High energy Street Brass of intense revelry
 
 
July 15 at 4pm
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of Bagaduce Music with the legend himself
 
 
July 22 & 23
Transcendent music simply rendered
 
 
July 29, 4pm Concert
Original World-Class Jazz plus Standards
 
 
August 12 & 13
Early Music featuring members of the Baltimore Consort and Ensemble Galilei
 
 
August 18-20 
Real acoustic Blues, Banjo and Ragtime
 
 
October 6 at 7pm
The wildly popular innovative String Quartet
 
 
October 28 at 8pm
Popular Blues/Rock band returns to rock the coast of Maine, as they have done for decades.
 
Thank you to our 2023 Season Sponsors

Dee & David Gautschi, Grace & Bill Gregor, Mary & Rich Howe, Judy & Ray McCaskey, Susan & Chris Pappas, Janet Schlesinger & Jerry Jaffee, Joann & Scott Thurston, Holly & George ‘Woody’ Wood 

Thank you to our 2023 Business Sponsors
Leaf&Anna, Blue Hill Coop, Seal Cove Boatyard, Mainescape, WERU Community Radio

 
Sponsor one of these great events! Contact bennett@bagaducemusic.org FMI
 
Partnership Concerts & Community Events
 
July 7, 4-6pm at Bagaduce Music Performance Hall
Highlighting our 2023 featured artist featuring a Bagaduce Music ensemble
 
July 17, 7 pm at Blue Hill Town Park
Split bill with Peninsula Pans and Bagaduce Northern New England Ensemble
 
July 26, 7-9pm at Bagaduce Music Performance Hall
Come witness remarkable partnerships and the truth they articulate as we learn and connect through the music that moves Reggie and Kim Harris, who inspired Robert Shetterly’s remarkable paintings.
 
 
July 28 at 7:30pm & July 30 at 4pm at Kneisel Hall, Blue Hill
Works by Mozart, Enescu, Fauré
Viola: Molly Carr
 
 
SECOND SATURDAY SURRY CONTRA DANCE
July 8, Aug 12, Sep 9, Oct 14, Nov 11, Dec 9 at Surry Elementary School
6pm Family Dance w/All-Comers Band
7pm Contra Dance
 
 
SCANDINAVIAN MUSIC AND DANCE WORKSHOP
September 9 &10 at Bagaduce Music and Belfast location TBD
Andrea Larson teaching in collaborative partnership with Belfast Flying Shoes
Painting Details by Kaitlyn Miller, our 2023 Featured Artist
 
Regular Volunteer Days Under Way
 
We’ve got a great gaggle of volunteers, new and old, coming together to help with projects outside and in. Join us 11-1:30, BYO bag lunch and shoot the breeze with us at 12:30pm.
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