Outdoor Family Music Fest in the Lowell School Park

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Hours:	12:00-3:00pm
Ages:	Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Outdoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Music & Concerts

Enjoy food, games, an instrument petting zoo and tons of great music, including performances by jazz vocalist Patrice Williamson (with pianist Joe Reid), and by the visiting Kammerwerke Wind Sextet, the NSM Kids’ Cabaret Musical Theater Program, the New School Singers, the Fun 'n' Easy Piano groups, and scenes from Debussy’s long-forgotten children’s ballet La Boite a Joujoux (The Toybox), choreographed anew by Lisa Marie Leake for the Music Discoveries classes.

Cambridge Art will join NSM for this festival, with
demonstrations by local visual and ceramic artists!

(Rain or Shine -- we'll move indoors in if it rains!)

COST

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Suggested donation of $8 to benefit NSM's need-based scholarship fund

WEBSITE

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www.newschoolofmusic.org

LOCATION

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25 Lowell Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 map
Phone: 617-492-8105

By Public transportation:

>By Bus
Take the 71 Watertown or 73 Waverly bus to Mt. Auburn Hospital. Walk around the corner to Lowell St. The school will be on the left.
>By T/Foot
Take the Red Line to Harvard Square. When you exit the subway, follow the Church Street exit. On Church Street, walk to until it dead-ends at Brattle Street. Make a right on Brattle Street and walk several blocks until you reach Lowell Street on the left side of the street. Turn down Lowell Street and NSM is at 25 on the right-hand side.

By Car:

>From Harvard Square
Take Mt. Auburn St. out of the square, heading West (toward Watertown). Turn right onto Lowell St., just before the Mt. Auburn Hospital. Park in the lot on the left.

>From Rt. 2
Follow Rt. 2 East past the Alewife T station and around the Fresh Pond rotaries.(Rt. 2 becomes Fresh Pond Parkway.) Stay on Rt. 2/Fresh Pond Parkway, crossing Huron Ave. At the next stop light, turn left onto Brattle St. Take the third right onto Lowell St. Park in the lot on the right, just past the school entrance.

>From the Mass Turnpike (Rt. 90)
Take the Cambridge/Allston exit. Bear right off the exit ramp, toward Cambridge. Go straight through two sets of lights, and over the bridge. Get in the left lane. Immediately after the bridge, turn left onto Memorial Dr. Stay on Memorial Dr. for about one mile. Bear right onto Hawthorne St., then take the next left onto Mt. Auburn St. Turn right onto Lowell St., just before Mt. Auburn Hospital. Park in the lot on the left.

There is a free parking lot and a bicycle rack next to the school for your convenience.