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Carlsbad Music Festival

The 8th annual Carlsbad Music Festival will take place in the charming seaside Village of Carlsbad from Friday-Sunday, September 23-25, 2011. The Festival has been praised by KPBS as “one of the area’s most innovative music showcases” and by the Los Angeles Times as "magnificently enlightening.”

Sunday, Sept 24

-12:00pm FREE picnic concert at Magee Park

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Carlsbad Village Theatre concerts:

-1:30pm Build

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-5:30pm Calder Quartet

plus free outdoor performances throughout
the day

 

BUILD

Described as a "rocking post-classical quintet which takes inspiration from minimalist chamber music, instrumental rock, modal jazz, and more" by New York Magazine, Build is the Brooklyn-based band led by the Festival’s Director, Matt McBane. Its two albums on New Amsterdam Records have received widespread critical acclaim and tracks from the albums are regularly played on NPR stations across the country.

Build website

 

CALDER QUARTET

The Festival’s Founding Ensemble-in-Residence the Calder Quartet has been called “one of America’s most satisfying and most enterprising quartets” by Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times. Their program will feature the premiere a new piece by the Festival Composers Competition winner, Jacob Cooper.

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