Music in the Mountains Festival
Celtic and Traditional American
 Join us in beautiful Green Valley Lake, located at 7000 ft in the San Bernardino Mountain range. Bring your instrument or just come to listen, for a full day
of making music and breathing clean mountain air. Green Valley Lake offers many amenities that you are sure to enjoy. Explore the rest if this website for more information about Green Valley Lake.
If you want to spend the weekend, you can rent a cabin or stay at the campground
Evening concert from 6pm to 8:30
WORKSHOPS- There will be workshops in the morning and afternoon in which professional music instructors will teach a few Irish and traditional American tunes---both how to play the melody and how to play back-up. The workshops are open to everyone: beginners, intermediate, and advanced players.
- fiddle classes
- hammered dulcimer
- fretted dulcimer
- pennywhistle
- guitar
- mandolin
- gourd drum making
 DEMONSTRATIONS- On our demonstration stage you can learn the difference between the various reed instruments---from concertinas to harmoniums. There will be a foot percussion demonstration where people can learn about the French Canadian style of accompanying tunes using special rhythmic patterns with the feet. There will be an area where both adults and children can learn how to play the spoons.
CONCERT STAGE- There will be a concert stage going most of the day where people can enjoy hearing various Celtic bands and solo artists perform.
JAMS- There will be small jams going on most of the day, plus a large jam in the mid-afternoon. This will give people a chance to play the tunes they learned at the workshops earlier in the day, plus take turns playing their own favorite jigs, reels, hornpipes, polkas and airs.
Most of these things will take place in our beautiful mountain meadow that is next door to the Community Center/Lilleberg Museum, 32659 Green Valley Lake Road here in Green Valley Lake.
We have a wonderful campground here, plus plenty of cabin rentals for those who wish to spend the night. We have swimming, fishing and boating in the lake for the other family members.
The cost for the festival is $35.00 for the whole day,
click here to read
about the teachers
including all 3 workshops and jams
and performers at the festival
$10.00 for the evening concert.
Spectators are welcome too -- $5.
for walk-ins*
Children under 12 get in free
*Walk-ins who wish to take a
workshop must pay a $10 fee
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