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Riverfest: Culture Flows 
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Saturday, June 11, 2011
2 PM - 6 PM @ Middlesex Community College & the Concord River Greenway Park
FREE Parking Located @ 73 Davidson Street, Lowell


Join us this year for a festive exploration of the connections between Lowell’s rivers and canals and the ethnic communities that call our city home.

Celebrate the unveiling of community murals made by Lowell students with artist Lineu Zadereski as well as his on-site original sculpture. There will also be live music provided by 92.5 the River, ethnic food, kids’ activities, and more!

 

Performance Schedule:
2:15 Cornell Coley 
Cornell is a gifted, experienced drummer and dancer
in the traditions of West and Central Africa, Cuba, and Brazil.

2:50 Welcome and opening remarks

3:00 Lowell House of Prayer Brazilian band and dancers

3:20 Bliss This trio will play a variety of originals, blues, folk, country and bluegrass songs.

4:15 40 string students from Greenhalge Elementary will perform!

4:35 Farren Butcher Inc.
CHARLIE FARREN and JON BUTCHER Both master musicians, riveting performers, soulful and expressive singers. Both are hit songwriters, together having sold millions of copies of their songs around the world.

5:55 Closing remarks

*Also recycled art projects
*t-shirt painting
*Delicious food
*face painting
*Gatehouse tours with Lowell National Historic Park
*Wine Tasting at Tutto Bene. 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM
*and much, much more!

 

We are grateful to the following sponsors for their generous support:                                              

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lowell Festival Foundation

 

                  

If your organization is interested in sponsoring this event, please download our Sponsorship Form.       

Funded by a Fund for the Arts, a restricted fund of the New England Foundation for the Arts,
made possible by generous support from anonymous donors.


 

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