Sounds & Scenes Family Festival

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Hours:	10:00 AM until 1:00 PM
Ages:	Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Outdoor
Cost:	Free see below
Category:	Fairs & Festivals

Brookline Adult & Community Education will host this outdoor family festival, a celebration of music and landscape in Olmsted Park. Three concerts and a variety of participatory activates suitable for children ages three to ten will link music with nature and landscape in a variety of fun and fascinating ways.

Musical Performers: Maria Sangiolo is an award-winning folksinger and songwriter. Her recordings include The Way We Live, and Under The Mystic Sea.
Lorraine and Bennett Hammond are folk musicians and educators who have performed together at venues and festivals across the country for over twenty years. Their recordings include Peace on Earth, and Jingalo Gypsy.
Faculty and Students from Brookline Music School , a private, nonprofit community school for the arts that is the oldest and largest cultural institution in Brookline.

Additional Family Activities will be offered simultaneously by local organizations including the Brookline GreenSpace Alliance, The High Street Hill Association, Friends of Leverett Pond , Boston City Singers, La Pinta youth folkloric group, Sociedad Latina, PAL's Children's Choirs, Massachusetts College of Art, and the Emerald Necklace Bird Club. A beginners birding by ear walk will be offered in the early morning preceding the festival and a guided walk of Olmstead Park will be offered by the Friends of Leverett Pond at 1:00 pm. For a complete schedule of events please call 617-730-2700.

COST

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Free, but please pre-register

WEBSITE

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www.brooklineadulted.org/bin/catalog/bldCatalogPage.pl?Key=2&File=SpecialEvents.txt

LOCATION

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Warren & Dudley Streets, Brookline, MA, 02445 map
Phone: 617-730-2700

At Olmsted Park’s Allerton Overlook and vicinity (on the Brookline side of Leverett Pond):

From Boston and East: Follow Huntington Avenue SW from the area of Copley Square. As you cross from Boston into Brookline beneath the Jamaicaway overpass, Huntington Avenue becomes Rt. 9/Boylston Street. Continue on Rt. 9/Boylston. At the third major intersection, turn left onto Warren Street and follow 1/8 mile to intersection of Warren and Dudley Streets. Olmsted NHS is on right-hand corner with NPS sign and distinctive archway at house front.

From I-95/Rt.128 and points west: From I-95/Rt. 128, take Exit 20 (Rt. 9 East, Boston/Brookline). Follow Rt. 9/Boylston St. for approximately 5 miles. Pass through a major intersection with Lee Street and continue on Boylston, passing the Brookline Reservoir on right side. At next intersection, turn right from Boylston onto Warren Street and follow 1/8 mile to intersection of Warren and Dudley Streets. Olmsted NHS is on right-hand corner with NPS sign and distinctive archway at house front.

Public Transportation Bus: Use MBTA Bus #60 and exit at intersection of Boylston and Warren Streets in Brookline. Follow Warren Street 1/8 mile to Olmsted NHS. Subway: Use MBTA Riverside 'D' Green Line and exit at Brookline Hills station. Turn right out of station and follow sidewalk to Cypress Street. Continue on Cypress across Boylston Street intersection. Turn right on Walnut Street. Turn left on Warren Street and continue to intersection with Warren and Dudley Street where Olmsted NHS is located. (www.mbta.com)