Second Annual New Hamburg Live Festival of the Arts, June 2-6, 2010

New Hamburg hosted an unprecedented, live, arts and culture event, May 20-24, 2009. The New Hamburg Live! Festival of the Arts included concert events ranging from roots music and blues to opera. The Festival provided a stage for more than 100 local visual artists, local authors and choral singers, while presenting performances by internationally known actors, singers and musicians.

It was estimated that over 1,200 people attended the events of the first New Hamburg Live! Festival of the Arts.

Plans are now underway for the second annual New Hamburg Live! Festival of the Arts, which will run from June 2-6, 2010. Again, the Festival will feature internationally known entertainers, as well as giving an opportunity for local artists, singers and authors to participate.

Initial plans include a Gilbert and Sullivan concert, a roots/folk concert, an art show, author events, big band concert, jazz and an encore of the hugely successful Sunday afternoon gospel and bluegrass concert featuring Ken Whiteley, Vicki St. Pierre, Charlene Nafziger, and a mass choir. Once again, the choir in the Sunday event will be made up of area choral singers who participate in the Saturday morning choral singing workshop led by St. Pierre and Whiteley, a superb opportunity for singers from the area to enjoy a great training and performance opportunity.

Tickets will go on sale in 2010. For updated information, visit www.newhamburglive.ca.

As well, New Hamburg Live! is also developing other arts events throughout the year. On October 17, 2009, New Hamburg Live! presents a free choral workshop for young people, from grades 7 through 12 (click here for more information), funded by the Lyle S. Hallman Foundation.

The key organizers of New Hamburg Live! will once again produce the CBC Radio Dickens Christmas Carol in New Hamburg (Sunday, Dec. 13), presented by St. George's Anglican and Zion United churches.

New Hamburg Live! is in process of becoming incorporated as a not-for-profit artistic organization.