To celebrate the International Day of Peace on Saturday, Hartford’s Elizabeth Park will play host to the first Peace, Love, & Music Together festival.
Bells will be rung and drums will be drummed. West Hartford Yoga will lead a community meditation and yoga class. Then, there will be more drumming as part of a rally for peace.
Governor Malloy, West Hartford Mayor Scott Slifka, and Connecticut State Senator Beth Bye are all scheduled to speak, along with Kenneth K. Guilmartin, the Founder and Director of Music Together.
Music Together, the sponsor, is a decades’ old music program for “babies, toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarteners, first and second graders, and the adults who love them.” In this area, Music Together classes are offered in West Hartford, Newington, Glastonbury, Bloomfield, Simsbury, and Bristol.
Festival partners include: Artists for World Peace, The Conduit Center, Deep River Fife and Drum Corps, Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, National Theatre of the Deaf, Sandy Hook Promise, University of St. Joseph, and Wolf’s Moon Medicine Drum.
The free festival goes from 10am-1pm. Participants are encouraged to bring drums and other instruments. You can check out the full schedule of events online.
