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Hours:	1-5 PM
Ages:	Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults
In/Outdoor:	Indoor, Outdoor
Cost:	Free
Category:	Music & Concerts

The Winchester Community Music School is pleased to present its seventh annual Music MAYnia Festival on Sunday, May 1 from 1-5 PM. Music MAYnia is an annual marathon of musical performances to raise visibility and awareness for the School’s financial aid fund.

This is a free community event of continuous live music that also includes arts & crafts, a chance to record your own CD, drum circles, face painting, spin art, free demo music lessons, and refreshments.

The Festival will be held at WCMS, located at 407 Highland Avenue in Winchester. A Musical Trolley with live music will transport Festival attendees to the School. Park in the Jenks Parking Lot, located at 109 Skillings Road, to pick up the trolley and ride to and from Music MAYnia. The event is free and open to the public.

The Music MAYnia schedule of events can be found on the School’s website at www.winchestermusic.org. The performances include over 225 students and faculty in solo performances, bands, and ensembles. Come hear performances on piano, flute, guitar, violin, drum set, marimba, trombone, cello, melodica, recorder, saxophone, trumpet, electric bass, voice, and clarinet. Student performers range in age from five to ninety-nine years old!

Throughout the afternoon, there will also be performances by many WCMS rock, jazz, and blues bands, the Winchester Middle School Jubilation Singers, and Winchester High School Chamber Singers. Music MAYnia attendees can also participate in a traditional May Pole dance. The popular lollipop raffle is filled with awesome prizes to delight kids. Bring your camera to catch all the delights of the Festival, including a chance to be Maestro Luigi Pepperoni, the infamous conductor. Music MAYnia and the fun activities will last throughout the afternoon, both inside and outside, rain or shine.

Executive Director, Laurie Russell, explains, “Music MAYnia has become one of WCMS’s signature fundraising events. The theme is “Providing Music for All.” Each year, WCMS awards more than $50,000 in financial aid, discounts, and subsidies to over 150 students. I am very proud of every performer who has chosen to participate in the Music MAYnia as a way to share their talent in order to help others also take music lessons,” says Russell. “This will be the largest number of Music MAYnia participants in the School’s history. Many local businesses have generously stepped forward to support Music MAYnia. Individuals may also sponsor specific performers. Simply visit the www.winchestermusic.org and click “donate now” to make an online gift in honor of your favorite Music MAYnia performer.

Music MAYnia is sponsored in part by John Moriarty and Associates, Shanahan Real Estate Group, Winchester Co-Operative Bank, Litho-Craft, McPhail Associates, Whole Foods, Bonnell Ford, Carole Kitchen and Bath Designs, LogMeIn, Piantedosi Bread Shoppe, Salter Health Care, Winchester Hospital, and Winchester Savings Bank. In addition, the event has received financial support from numerous local businesses and professionals. The net proceeds raised from the May Day Festival go directly to the WCMS Financial Aid Fund. WCMS appreciates the tremendous generosity of the business community as well as the many members of the WCMS Encore Volunteer Group who help make Music MAYnia so successful.

Winchester Community Music School is a non-profit community school of music and is a full member of the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. With a faculty of more than 60 talented teaching artists, the School offers private lessons, group classes, ensembles, and workshops from beginning instruction to the pre-professional level to over 750 students each week. If you would like to make a donation to the WCMS financial aid program or for more information about upcoming summer programs, please call 781-721-2950 or visit the School’s website at www.winchestermusic.org.

WEBSITE

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winchestermusic.org/PDFs/Music%20MAYnia%20Announcement%202011.pdf

LOCATION

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407 Highland Avenue, Winchester, MA, 01890 map
Phone: 781-721-2950

http://winchestermusic.org/contact/directions.aspx

Traveling East on Mass. Pike (I-90) or (I-95)

* Take exit at Weston [I-95 North].
* Follow [I-95] and turn Right onto Route 3 South. (Hint: You will pass Route 3 North and the Burlington Mall on your left, before you get to Route 3 South.)
* Follow Route 3 South for 3.7 mi.
* Turn Left onto Church St. (2nd light after Mahoney's Rocky Ledge Nursery).
* Turn Right at first light onto Bacon St.
* Note small rotary to your left. Do not continue straight on Main St. (Rt.38)
* Enter the rotary and take the next street after Main Street (Everell Road) on your left.
* Go up the hill to Highland Ave (stop sign), turn Left.
* WCMS is the Tudor Revival house on the Left, with circular driveway.

Traveling South on Route 93 (points north)

* Take I-93 South
* Follow signs to the Fellsway - Exit 33. Take first RIGHT off of rotary onto South Border Road.
* Follow South Border Road until you come to the Five-Way intersection (first traffic light).
* Turn sharp LEFT onto Highland Avenue Extension.
* WCMS is the Tudor Revival house on Right, with circular driveway.

Traveling from Boston (points south & east)

* Take I-93 North
* Take the RT-16/Mystic Valley Parkway exit – Exit 31 – toward Arlington.
* Stay in the left lanes to go onto Mystic Valley Parkway/MA-16 West.
* Turn Right onto Winthrop Street/MA-38 (first cross-street light).
* Enter next roundabout and continue straight onto MA-38.
* Bear Right at fork onto Highland Ave. (blue hospital sign).
* WCMS is the Tudor Revival house on Left, with circular driveway.

TIPS

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Avoid the on-street parking hassle! Ride the free & fun musical trolley and from Music MAYnia. Park in the Jenks Parking Lot at 109 Skillings Road, Winchester to pick up the trolley.