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What is the Rites of Spring Music Festival?
Rites of Spring has quickly become the premier classical and contemporary music festival on the North Fork and East End of Long Island. In this tenth edition the festival is devoted to contemporary sounds in a setting that engages the community and invites the listener to participate on many levels. We believe great music works best in a unique environment. We invite you to join us. |
We combine classical and contemporary music with great local food & wine, in historical and natural setting and inspiring talks by artists.
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Letter from the Founder & Artistic Director
2025 Rites of Spring Music Festival – Tenth Anniversary
RHYTHMS OF THE TERROIR:
music, stories, practices
Given North Fork’s rich maritime and agricultural traditions with its multiple cultures and practices, the Rites of Spring Music Festival is proud to highlight this distinctive terroir through the music and rhythms of this unique community.
In 2025, Rites of Spring Music Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary and pays homage to the North Fork by showcasing its artistic expressions and working practices in its many extraordinary venues.
There are similarities between music practitioners and land and maritime workers.
Body rhythms in these two practices are highly dependent upon the human senses of tasting, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing, talking, and doing. The body is fully involved in sensory practices as well as in effective, aesthetic, cultural and social ways to generate an enterprise.
Practices of the land and maritime workers must synchronize to daily life rhythms of seasonality and climate that cannot be hurried or controlled, as well as the music practitioners need to regulate their body rhythm with the flow of the music making.
The terroir of the North Fork not only describes the geography, soil and climate of this place, but expresses the meaningful cohesion of expressions, stories and practices of this community that is distributed across various practitioners.
In working together, artists and land and maritime workers search for ways to orchestrate their own available resources in a harmonized collective celebration of life on the North Fork.
In this relational sense, the rhythmic patterns that govern ways of working remind us how interdependent, creative, and emergent our actions become when we set the rhythms of the body in space-time to music and the multiple artistic representation.
A NEW SEASON OF LIVE CONCERTS IN UNCONVENTIONAL AND EXTRAORDINARY PLACES. A NORTH FORK BLEND OF MUSIC, NATURE, AND CULTURE.
ENJOY THE MUSIC!
Paolo Bartolani
Founder, Artistic & Executive Director
2025 Rites of Spring Music Festival – Tenth Anniversary
RHYTHMS OF THE TERROIR:
music, stories, practices
Given North Fork’s rich maritime and agricultural traditions with its multiple cultures and practices, the Rites of Spring Music Festival is proud to highlight this distinctive terroir through the music and rhythms of this unique community.
In 2025, Rites of Spring Music Festival celebrates its tenth anniversary and pays homage to the North Fork by showcasing its artistic expressions and working practices in its many extraordinary venues.
There are similarities between music practitioners and land and maritime workers.
Body rhythms in these two practices are highly dependent upon the human senses of tasting, smelling, seeing, touching, hearing, talking, and doing. The body is fully involved in sensory practices as well as in effective, aesthetic, cultural and social ways to generate an enterprise.
Practices of the land and maritime workers must synchronize to daily life rhythms of seasonality and climate that cannot be hurried or controlled, as well as the music practitioners need to regulate their body rhythm with the flow of the music making.
The terroir of the North Fork not only describes the geography, soil and climate of this place, but expresses the meaningful cohesion of expressions, stories and practices of this community that is distributed across various practitioners.
In working together, artists and land and maritime workers search for ways to orchestrate their own available resources in a harmonized collective celebration of life on the North Fork.
In this relational sense, the rhythmic patterns that govern ways of working remind us how interdependent, creative, and emergent our actions become when we set the rhythms of the body in space-time to music and the multiple artistic representation.
A NEW SEASON OF LIVE CONCERTS IN UNCONVENTIONAL AND EXTRAORDINARY PLACES. A NORTH FORK BLEND OF MUSIC, NATURE, AND CULTURE.
ENJOY THE MUSIC!
Paolo Bartolani
Founder, Artistic & Executive Director
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Concerts
19 |
Attendees
5700 |
Locations
18 |
Year 2024
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Rites of Spring Music Festival, Inc. is a 501(c)3 non-profit.
Tax identification number 82-3695345 . Donations may be mailed to the Festival’s address or made online through PayPal and are fully tax deductible. |
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