Destination World
On the first Thursday of each month through April
2007, in parnership with the Cultural Organizations
of Lowell (COOL), Destination World transforms
Downtown Lowell into a distant land featuring
movies, art, dance, music, creative workshops, special
dining experiences, and family fun! Start your
adventure at Lowell National Historical Park Visitor
Center, 246 Market Street.
June 1 - Portugal
July 6 - Zimbabwe
Aug. 3 - New England Roots
Sept. 7 - Latin America
October 5 - Italy
For more details visit www.destinationworld.org or
www.cultureiscool.org. Free.
Lowell Folk Festival®
July 28-30
Three days of traditional music, dance,
craft demonstrations, street parades, dance
parties, and ethnic foods presented by Lowell
National Historical Park, Lowell Festival Foundation,
National Council for the Traditional Arts and
the City of Lowell. Celebrating its 20th year, the
Lowell Folk Festival®, is held on six outdoor stages
throughout downtown Lowell: Friday, July 28, 7:00 -
10:00 p.m.; Saturday, July 29, noon-10:00 p.m.; and
Sunday, July 30, noon-7:00 p.m.
Performing at the 2006 Lowell Folk Festival® will
be the traditional yet progressive cajun band Steve
Riley & the Mamou Playboys; hard-driving,
bluegrass band Dan Paisley & the Southern Grass;
Andean musicians Inca Son; traditional Irish duo
Liz Carroll & John Doyle; Texas Swing fiddlers
The Quebe Sisters; New Orleans brass band The
Hot 8 Brass Band; Quebecois ensemble Le Vent du
Nord; the astonishing acrobatic feats of the Alberti
Flea Circus, and much more. For more information,
contact Lowell National Historical Park, 67 Kirk
Street, Lowell, MA 01852, telephone 978-970-
5000(V); 978-970-5002 (TDD) or visit us at www.
lowellfolkfestival.org.
Don’t miss the exhibit in the Boott Gallery at the
Boott Cotton Mills Museum commemorating 20
years of the Lowell Folk Festival®.
Greater
Lowell Indian Cultural Association Children's Day
June 24, 10:00 a.m.
Join the Greater Lowell Indian Cultural Association
for their annual Children’s Day at the Indian Land
in the Lowell-Dracut-Tyngsboro State Forest. Bring
your families to take a guided tour of the forest, learn
how to make indigenous crafts, and play with other
children. For more information, please visit www.
glica.net or contact Tom Libby at (978) 458-3665.
The African Festival
June 24, 10:00 a.m.
Sampas Pavillion, Pawtucket Blvd., Lowell.
Lowell Quilt Festival
August 3-6
A citywide celebration of quilts in historic Downtown
Lowell with events at Tsongas Arena, New
England Quilt Museum, American Textile History
Museum, Brush Art Gallery, Whistler House Museum
of Art, Revolving Museum, Merrimack Repertory
Theater, Lowell Memorial Auditorium, and
galleries of Lowell. For more information visit www.
lowellquiltfestival.org.
Canal Heritage Day
August 12
Join Lowell National Historical Park and Middlesex
Canal Museum in exploring our canal heritage.
Through music, museums, and guided tours,
experience the contribution canals made to
transportation in our expanding country during the
18th and 19th centuries. Appreciate the continuing
relevance canals have today with such uses as
flood control, hydroelectric power generation, and
recreation.
Southeast Asian Water Festival
The 10th annual Lowell Southeast Asian Water Festival, along
the Merrimack River in the city's Pawtucketville neighborhood,
celebrates the cultural and environmental importance of water
to the lives of Cambodians, Laotians, Vietnamese, Thai, and
other nationalities who have made a new home in Lowell. Many
of the events, including the exciting dragon boat races, music,
traditional dancing, and food, mirror festival events that
take place in their homeland. Lowell National Historical Park
will provide environmental education and interpretation programs,
including free boat tours on the river. For more information,
visit the National Park Service booth while you are at the
Festival, or call 978-970-5000.
Banjo & Fiddle Contests
Spetember 9
The sounds of Bluegrass, Dixieland, old time mountain picking,
and the strains of ethnic dance tunes from all over the world
will flow from Boarding House Park in Lowell, Massachusetts,
on Saturday, September 10, 2005, during the Banjo and Fiddle
Contests. The public is invited to a full day of music, food
and family fun. The event is free, but donations will be accepted.
Workshops on Mountain Dulcimer, Oldtime Fiddle, Oldtime Banjo,
Twin and Bluegrass Fiddle, and Bluegrass Banjo begin at 10:00
a.m.
Federal Public Lands Day
September 30
Join Lowell National Historical Park in celebrating
Federal Public Lands Day. All park exhibit sites will
be fee -free to celebrate our national parks and public
lands.
Lowell Celebrates Kerouac!
Festival
October 5-8
Join Lowell National Historical Park and Lowell
Celebrates Kerouac! in celebrating the life and works
of Jack Kerouac. Special tours and events will include
walking tours to the places Kerouac wrote about
while growing up in Lowell in the 1930s.
LOWELL
SUMMER MUSIC SERIES Press Release
The Lowell National Historical Park, the University of Massachusetts
Lowell and the
Lowell Festival Foundation present the 17th Season of the Lowell
Summer Music Series at
Boarding House Park.
Grammy Winners headline the 2006 Lowell Summer Music Series:
Pianist Bruce
Hornsby (1986, 1989, 1993), folk-rock goddesses Indigo Girls
(1989. 1990), Latin rock
group Los Lobos (1983, 1989, 1995), salsa stars The Spanish Harlem
Orchestra (2005)
and N’Orleans blues pianist Dr. John (1989, 1992, 1996,
2000).
In addition, the Series will present folk legend Judy Collins;
contemporary
folksinger/songwriters Dar Williams, Ben Taylor and Eddie From
Ohio; Oldies shows by
Davy Jones of the Monkees, Orleans (Still the One, Dance With
Me), and Eric Burdon &
the Animals; Blues shows by Hot Tuna, Marcia Ball, Mighty Sam
McClain and the
Chicago Blues Reunion; Celtic music and dance by Canada’s
Leahy and French-Canadian
La Bottine Souriante, stars of the 2005 Lowell Folk Festival;
Shakespeare’s A
Midsummer Night’s Dream; performances of American pop tunes
by Lowell’s SRO
Players, and our annual finale, the 27th Annual Banjo & Fiddle
Contests.
Continuing Series Sponsors are Moosewood, Organic Classics, and
the Apartments at
the Boott Mills. We are pleased to welcome Kashi Co. as a new
Series Sponsor. Series Media
Sponsors are The Sun, The Boston Phoenix, 92.5 The River, Oldies
103.3, Frank 106.3, WCAP
980-AM, WUML-91.5FM and My TV (Channel 50).
The Lowell Summer Music Series includes ten free children’s
shows and 22 low-cost
concert events, plus this year’s Lowell Folk Festival fundraiser
with Marcia Ball.
All show times are 7:30PM except the Banjo & Fiddle Contests,
a free event that starts
at noon. Affordable for the whole family, children 12 and under
always admitted free to the
Lowell Summer Music Series (except the 7/3/06 Folk Festival fundraiser).
Advance tickets
may be purchased at our website, www.lowellsummermusic.org or
at any Strawberries
Music & Video store. This year, tickets will also be available
at the Lowell National Historical
Park Visitor Center at 246 Market Street and the Boott Cotton
Mills Museum at 115 John
Street. Season Passes are also on sale for 50% off the full box
office price! Just $150 gets
2 of 3
you in to all 21 paid admission shows – a $305 value – until
June 1. 2006. After that, the
Season Pass price increases to $160, so get your Season Passes
early!
This year's schedule includes:
6/30 Hot Tuna (Acoustic & Electric)
7/1 Eric Burdon & the Animals
7/7 Chicago Blues Reunion
7/8 Judy Collins
7/14 SRO Players “American Pop!”
7/15 Orleans
7/20 Indigo Girls
7/21 Eddie From Ohio
7/22 Davy Jones of the Monkees
8/4 Leon Russell
8/5 Grace Potter & the Nocturnals
8/11 Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
8/12 La Bottine Souriante
8/18 Dar Williams
8/19 Leahy
8/25 Mighty Sam McClain
8/26 Bruce Hornsby
8/31 Dr. John
9/1 Los Lobos
9/2 Spanish Harlem Orchestra
9/8 Ben Taylor Band
9/9 Banjo & Fiddle Contests - Free
Call 978-970-5200 for more information.
Bring your lawn chair or blanket, pack a picnic supper or get
refreshments at our Food Tent, and enjoy country, folk, blues,
oldies, Irish, pops concert favorites, and lots more.
All show times are 7:30 p.m. except the Banjo & Fiddle
Contests,
a free event that starts at noon.
Advance tickets may be purchased at www.lowellsummermusic.org or
at any Strawberries Music & Video store. Season Passes are
also on sale.
Lowell Folk Festival®
July 29-31 The Lowell Folk Festival®, three days of traditional
music, dance, craft demonstrations, street parades, dance parties,
and ethnic foods, is presented on six outdoor stages throughout
downtown Lowell. Friday, 7:00-10:00 p.m.; Saturday, noon-10:00
p.m.; and Sunday, noon-7:00 p.m. Presented by Lowell National Historical
Park, Lowell Festival Foundation, National Council for the Traditional
Arts and the City of Lowell. Among those performing at the 2005
Lowell Folk Festival® will be Solas, La Bottine Souriante,
Ricardo Lemvo, the Hellenic & Near East Ensemble, and much
more. For more information, contact Lowell National Historical
Park, 67 Kirk Street, Lowell, MA 01852, telephone 978-970-5000(V);
978-970-5002 (TDD) or visit us at www.lowellfolkfestival.org.
KIDS' WEEK
2006 Information TBA
Other Cultural Events (List from 2005):
Dia de Portugal
Information: (978) 454-1725
Acre Festival
Information (978) 452-7523
Two Sisters Pow Wow
Information: (978) 459-7214
Franco-American Week
Information: (978) 459-0702
African Festival
Information: (978) 453-6677
Puerto Rican/Latino Festival
Information: (978) 943-6181
Colombian Independence Day Information: (978) 444-0529
Art Walk
Information: (978) 970-2100
Liberian Flag Day
Information: (978) 452-4524
Walk for Education in Liberia
Information: (978) 452-4524
