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MISSIONChelsea Music Festival celebrates great music by convening world-leading musicians and artists in the performing, culinary, and visual arts for an international audience. The Festival invites artists, composers, and performers to collaborate in pursuit of a new perspectives in artistic expression.ABOUTInspired by its Chelsea roots, the Festival reflects the creativity of one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods. Programs span musical genres ranging from classical to contemporary to jazz with a special emphasis on Festival commissions by composers whose works are not in the traditional western canon. On the digital programming front, the Festival hosts an online library of recordings so music enthusiasts, artists, and students alike can explore unique interpretations of classical, jazz, and contemporary works via high-quality videos of world-class performances and dialogues available for years to come.Since 2010, the Chelsea Music Festival has established itself as a critically-acclaimed, accessible and interactive gateway to chamber music in non-traditional concert spaces such as art galleries, public squares, schools, and churches. Artists hail from around the world to partake in nearly two weeks of programming complete with concerts, lectures, exhibitions, family events, and free outreach performances. In 2020, the Chelsea Music Festival inaugurated its Online Encores and Online Originals digital video series on YouTube; Online Encores presents highlights from Festival archives and past concerts while Online Originals presents new and never-before-seen performances and recordings.We are proud to give emerging voices, particularly those of women and people of color, a stage and are working to build an audience and intimate community to support a new generation of musicians, composers, and artists.

Chelsea Music Festival

Percussionists Rogerio Boccato & Keita Ogawa on instruments of natural materials, Kaoru Watanabe on Japanese bamboo flutes, & gamin on piri.

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2023 Songs for the Earth

Chelsea Music Festival launches its annual June Festival with five dynamic days of concerts, conversation, and tastings with musicians, visual artists, chefs.

2024 Chelsea Music Festival | 15th Season

Chelsea Music Festival celebrates its 15th season, Connecting the Dots,  with nine day of concerts & conversations with musicians, visual artists, and chefs from June 21-29, 2024 — festival tickets are on sale now!

<h3>PROGRAM</h3>Come hear this tour de force quartet of the most sought-after percussionists including Rogério Boccato and Keito Ogawa, and listen as they collectively compose live on stage a four-part suite based on nature’s four elements (earth, water, fire, air). Their music will be interspersed with readings from poems from around the world about each of the elements. <h3>FEATURING </h3><a href="https://rogerioboccato.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Rogério Boccato</a> | Percussion<a href="https://keitaogawa.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Keita Ogawa</a> | Percussion<a href="https://www.watanabekaoru.com/profile-en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Kaoru Watanabe</a> | Percussion, Japanese bamboo flutes <a href="https://www.gaminmusic.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">gamin</a> | PiriArtwork by the <a href="https://www.gleaningproject.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Gleaning Project</a>and artist Noemia MarinhoTonight’s concert features instruments made exclusively of natural materials (e.g. wood, bamboo, animal skin, plant fibers, seeds, etc.). There are still a limited number of tickets left for our <a href="https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2023-events/chelsea-farms-to-table" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Outdoor Family-Style Dinner </a>before this concert! See ticketing options for a package deal!<a href="https://www.chelseamusicfestival.org/2023-sponsors-partners" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Click to see full list of Festival Sponsors</a>

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