Imagine Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms walking one way as they pass the Beatles walking in the other direction.
That’s the mental image you might have if you attend Oak Ridge’s third Rock to Bach Music Festival on Saturday, Jan. 26, at Pollard Auditorium.
“Rock to Bach” is an all-day music festival presented by the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association as a benefit for ORCMA music organizations, such as the Oak Ridge Symphony Orchestra and Chorus.
More than a dozen groups will perform rock, pop, blues, bluegrass, folk, jazz, gospel, Big Band, swing, klezmer, and classical music.
Among the performing groups are Greg Tardy and Boling, Brown and Holloway Band (blues, jazz); Early Bird Special Band (rock ‘n roll, gospel, folk); Dor L’Dor Klezmer Band; Ridge City Ramblers (bluegrass, folk, gospel); Little Big Band (swing); Oak Ridge Suzuki Strings (pop, bluegrass, classical); University of Tennessee Trombone Choir (classical, pop); and the Tanasi Winds, a woodwind quintet that performs popular and classical music.
Other performing groups will feature Dan Allcott, ORSO conductor; and students of Karen Kartal, ORSO concertmaster, and her husband Ihsan Kartal, principal cellist with ORSO.
The performances will be in two venues: the auditorium and in the lobby. Each presentation will be approximately 25 minutes long. This event will be staffed entirely by volunteer workers, and all performers are volunteering their talents.
The festival will include a silent auction. Coffee, tea, water, and soda, along with homemade baked goods and snack foods in packages, will be sold by ORCMA volunteers. Lunch and dinner will be catered.
The cost of the festival is $12 per person and $30 for a family of three or more people. Children 12 years old and under will be admitted for free.
Attendees receiving a hand stamp may leave and return as they please during the daylong festival. For more information, call the ORCMA office at (865) 483-5569. To see photos and descriptions of the groups, visit the www.orcma.org home page and click on the “Rock to Bach Music Festival” link.
Pollard Auditorium is at 215 Badger Ave. in Oak Ridge.
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