Family Music Festival & Sol y Canto Performance

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Hours:	12:00-3:00pm
Ages:	Infants, Toddlers, Kids
In/Outdoor:	Indoor, Outdoor
Cost:	$ see below
Category:	Special Events

Family Music Festival, an Annual Cambridge Tradition

Once again this June, NSM musicians and volunteers will fill the Lowell School Park with musical fun and activities for children of all ages.

Come join us on Saturday, June 20th from 12:00-3:00pm for outdoor games, crafts, face painting and a musical instrument 'petting zoo.' Family concerts throughout the afternoon including the nationally-celebrated Latin music ensemble Sol y Canto* at 1pm.

Sol y Canto's family show at the New School of Music will feature selections from their Parents' Choice Award-winning CD 'El Doble De Amigos/Twice As Many Friends' -A Bilingual Musical Family FIESTA Una Fiesta Musical Bilinge Featuring Rosi & Brian Amador.

Sol y Canto’s songs feature toe-tapping plena, son, calypso, reggae and more from their Parents' Choice Award-winning CD, Twice as Many Friends/El Doble de Amigos! With their irresistibly singable and danceable high-energy sound, Sol y Canto immerses children and their parents in the joys of a bilingual musical fiesta. This concert will feature Sol y Canto founders Rosi (Puerto Rico/Argentina) Amador on lead vocals and bongo/small percussion & Composer Brian Amador (New Mexico, U.S.) on Spanish guitar. www.solycanto.com

'After a full hour, when kids would usually be ready for other activities, Sol y Canto literally had them dancing in the aisles and on to of their seats' -The Boston Globe

The New School of Music is a non-profit community music school for children and adults. NSM been in Cambridge since 1976 when it was founded by the celebrated pianist, composer and educator, Nicholas Van Slyck. Our home at 25 Lowell Street was built in 1883 as the Lowell Street School, and is the only remaining wooden schoolhouse in Cambridge.

Date: Saturday, June 20th
Time: 12:00-3:00pm
Admission: Free, * Tickets are required for the Sol y Canto performance, advanced purchase recommended. $5 kids/$10 adults and can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69360

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Free, * Tickets are required for the Sol y Canto performance, advanced purchase recommended. $5 kids/$10 adults and can be purchased at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/69360

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 Street. The school will be on the left, number 25.
>By T/Foot
From Harvard Square, take either Mt. Auburn Street (1/2 mile) or Brattle Street (3/4 mile) and walk several blocks until you reach Lowell Street. From Mt. Auburn St., turn right on Lowell St. We are number 25, immediately on the left hand side. From Brattle St., turn left onto Lowell. Number 25 will be at the end of the block on the right hand side.

By Car:

>From Harvard Square
Take Mt. Auburn Street out of the square, heading a half mile 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.