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POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19

The Maine Festival of American Music:

Its Roots and Traditions

If rescheduled, new dates will be given below

The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community in a close association with the Portland String Quartet has enjoyed annual concerts and shared personal events since the 1970s. Now, entering its fifteenth Festival season, their musical and educational collaboration continues as strong as ever. This Festival has become a high point in the Sabbathday Lake Shaker calendar and in the quartet's busy year-round schedule of concerts and workshops. No venue offers a more beautiful and acoustically welcoming setting for chamber music than the 1794 Meeting House. As the Portland Press Herald proclaimed: "Portland String Quartet at Shaker House Simply a Gift."

Event Schedule

Additional info from the Shakers

Wednesday

24th

Portland String Quartet Concert

7PM

26th

Friday

Developing the Gift of Talent

Workshop 9AM-3PM

Workshop Day at the Festival brings student and adult quartets to Shaker Village to study movements of major works from the literature with the Portland String Quartet. A Master Class, free and open to the public, will be held in the historic 1794 Meeting House from 3:00 - 5:00 pm.

Masterclass 3PM-5PM