Free Community Family Day
Sunday, July 24 | 11am - 1pm
📍Classical Tahoe Pavilion
🕖 2 hours (11am – Music Maker Faire ; 12pm – Family Concert)
🎶 Free Family Event
Program
11:00am: Music Maker Faire with the Discovery Museum
Hands-On-Art Making Adventures in partnership with The Discovery Museum to include:
- Playable “tubeophone” made of PVC tubes
- Button design and creation station
- Spin drum making station, and more…!
Get up close to your favorite instruments at the Instrument Petting Zoo with Classical Tahoe Musicians!
12:00pm: Family Orchestra Concert with Beloved Lake Tahoe Music Teacher Rita Whitaker Hahn
The Community Family Day is made possible by the FS Foundation, The Spirit Burns Fund at the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation, and the Nell J. Redfield Foundation.
Featured Artists & Partners
Classical Tahoe Orchestra
The Classical Tahoe Orchestra is composed of 70 of the most prominent musicians from major orchestras around the world, including the MET Opera, SF Opera, Zurich Opera, Philadelphia Orchestra, LA Philharmonic, and symphonies of San Francisco, Seattle, Dallas, Toronto, Houston, and more.
Rita Whitaker Hahn
Rita Whitaker Haun is a professional cellist with 40 years experience teaching public and private school music for ages birth to seventy. She has appreciated teaching orchestra and general music for Washoe County School District in Reno and Incline, as well as Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. Rita continues to enjoy spending time with children Birth-5 years with their families during her music and movement program MUSIKGARTEN in Truckee, Incline, and Kings Beach. She and her husband enjoy bi-coastal residence in Truckee and Panama City Beach, Florida.
The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum
The Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (best known as The Discovery) is Nevada’s largest hands-on science center featuring 67,000 square feet of ever-changing exhibitions focused on science, technology, engineering, art, history and invention, all designed to inspire curiosity, creativity and the joy of lifelong learning in all who visit.
Nevada Hands and Voices
Nevada Hands and Voices is a parent-driven, non-profit organization that supports, encourages, and educates families of Deaf and Hard of Hearing (DHH) children so that they can be empowered to make choices that will enable their children to achieve their full potential.
