The 26^th season of the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival is just over a month away! Once more, Artistic Director Aloysia Friedmann has put together a magical 16 days of works old and new with a glorious mix of first-time-to-Orcas and returning favorite performers.

Don't forget, we will be livestreaming a performance of each of our mainstage concerts! The shows, which start at 5:30om PDT on August 5. 9, 12, 16, and 19 will be available live and for 3 days after the performance. Enjoy the intimate multi-camera, top quality sound production anywhere you may be this August. Register here.

In-person tickets are also available for all programs, on Orcas Island (here) and Lopez Island (here). For details on all the concerts and happenings, visit our web site.

London, Sao Paulo, Toronto, Sydney, New York, these are all cities that have public street pianos. Now Eastsound can be added to that list! On Tuesday, June 26^th, OICMF planted Orcas Island’s first street piano! If you hear live piano music wafting through the air on your next visit to Eastsound, thank the Deer Harbor Community Club for the piano, Mimi and Slim Sommerville for piano storage and moving, Rick and Marlace Hughes for providing its new home, and Sallie Bell and Martin Lund for the bench. We are grateful to them all for their help in making OICMF's piano dream into a reality. Maybe you’ll want to offer a tune yourself…let the music play!

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