July

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATIONS
Accident, Maryland
Saturday, July 3

One of the best small town Fourth of July celebrations ever: parade, arts & crafts, quilt show, historic tours, and food! All day long…

INDEPENDENCE AT THE STONEBOW INN!
Stonebow Inn, Grantsville, MD
Sunday, July 4
Spend a long weekend in the mountains, watch local fireworks displays in the evening, and enjoy a bonfire on the banks of the Casselman River.

ART IN THE PARK
Discovery Center, Deep Creek Lake State Park, McHenry, MD
Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11
Over 40 artists sell their pottery, jewelry, photography, woodworking, watercolor and oil painting, with Dixieland music, food, roving naturalist programs, and art demonstrations, in a beautiful, natural setting.

Mary Kathleen Ernst (Music at Penn Alps concert series)
Penn Alps Great Hall, Grantsville, MD
Saturday, July 10, 7:30PM
Internationally renowned piano recitalist Mary Kathleen Ernst has garnered top prizes in Spain’s Jose Iturbi International Piano Competition and the National Federation of Music Clubs Competition. She will play Fantasy in F Minor and Sonata in B flat minor by Chopin, and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes.

POTTERY workshop - LYNN LAIS
Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Grantsville, MD
Saturday & Sunday, July 10 & 11, 10AM-5PM each day
Learn surface decoration using slip trailing and brush techniques. Cost is $150.

45TH ANNUAL FRIENDSVILLE FIDDLE & BANJO CONTEST
Friendsville Community Park, Friendsville, MD
Saturday, July 17, 5:00PM.
Come and enjoy an afternoon of musical entertainment and an evening of talented competition. Bring a lawn chair and sunscreen. For more information contact Cheryl MacLane at 301-746-4246.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Grantsville, MD
Saturday & Sunday, July 17 & 18, 10AM-5PM each day
Precious Metal Clay Workshop - Doug Salmon
Students will make two rings, one with a bezel set stone, and one necklace. PMC techniques and basic silver soldering and stone setting will be covered. Cost is $150 plus $60 materials fee.

August
JOSÉ CUETO & NANCY ROLDÁN (Music at Penn Alps concert series)
Saturday, August 7, 7:30PM
Penn Alps Great Hall, Grantsville, MD
Argentine born Nancy Roldán has performed worldwide as recitalist, collaborative performer, and featured soloist. Violinist José Miguel Cueto is Chair of Strings at St. Mary’s College of Maryland and Concertmaster of Concert Artists of Baltimore. MPA is delighted to welcome them back for A Romantic Evening, featuring works by Turull, Brahms, Strauss, and Kreisler.

Garrett County Fair
Garrett County Fairgrounds, McHenry, MD
Saturday – Sunday, August 7-14
Visit the 54th annual county fair, complete with agricultural exhibits, animals, a 4-H sale, nightly entertainment, carnival rides, a midway, and special events at the race track.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Grantsville, MD
Saturday & Sunday, August 14 & 15, 10AM-5PM each day
Glass beads workshop - Mary Kammauff
Basic skills of heating glass, applying it to a mandrel and shaping it with tools. You will learn to make a round bead and how to alter its shape and add decorative color with dots, frits, trails. Cost is $150 plus $65 materials fee.

ETHAN SAGIN & HEATH NAYLOR (Music at Penn Alps concert series)
Penn Alps Great Hall, Grantsville, MD
Saturday, August 21, 7:30PM
Young baritones Ethan Sagin and Heath Lewis Naylor, accompanied by Dr. John Hawkins at the piano, will perform arias by Torelli, Durante, Fetis, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Britten and Vaughan Williams.

Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Grantsville, MD
Saturday & Sunday, August 21 & 22, 10AM-5PM each day
Jewelry Fabrication - Doug Salmon
Play with fire in this exciting weekend course. Learn elementary techniques for creating three-dimensional jewelry designs; cutting, forming and welding with a variety of jewelry metals. Cost is $150 plus $55 materials fee.

THE PIRASTI TRIO (Music at Penn Alps concert series
Penn Alps Great Hall, Grantsville, MD
Saturday, August 28, 7:30PM
BSO Concertmaster Jonathan Carney returns to Music at Penn Alps, this time with pianist Jeffrey Sharkey, Director of the Peabody Institute, and cellist Allison Wells, a founding member of the Trio. The Pirasti Piano Trio performed for twelve years throughout the United Kingdom and Europe.

FEATHER CARVING WORKSHOP - GARY YODER
Spruce Forest Artisan Village, Grantsville, MD
Saturday & Sunday, August 28 & 29
Using traditional hand carvingtools and wood burner, students will carve, texture, and tint a Blue Jay feather. Cost is $200.

September
Deep Creek Lake Art & Wine Festival
Garret County Fairgrounds, McHenry, MD
Friday-Sunday, September 10-12
This popular annual festival features fine wines from around MD and the world, with wine tasting, package sales, food vendors, wagon/carriage rides, arts and crafts, children’s activities, and music performances.


APPALACHIAN FESTIVAL
Frostburg State University and The Palace Theater, Frostburg, MD
Friday & Saturday, September 17 &18
The fourth annual festival features a Friday evening symposium and award-winning documentary film at The Palace Theater. On Saturday the FSU campus will be filled with free events: live music, crafts, workshops, storytelling, and demonstrations. Saturday evening caps the festival with concert by David Holt and Laura Boosinger.