The Mozart Festival is back!! This Halloween season we are going to bring the music of Mozart back to life all over Church Hill! This is a day long free music festival where many of Richmond’s finest classical musicians will provide a beautiful soundtrack to this historic Richmond neighborhood. Do we have lots of live music? Yes. Do we have informative events put on by experts? Yes. Do we have a family fun filled afternoon? Yes, we do! Folks, we got it all! A full day of Mozart from 10am to 7pm in the lovely Church Hill neighborhood. Save the date, get hyped, and make a donation toward the festival here!
10 am: Yoga with Mozart
Location: Align (2509 East Broad Street)
Music by Rosette String Quartet
10 am to 11:45 am: Wolfie Time
Location: Chimborazo Elementary School (3000 E Marshall St)
10 am - 10:45 am - Instrument Petting Zoo, Crafts, Wolfie Selfies
10:45 - 11:10 - Story Time by Anne Regan
11:15 - 11:40 - Student Recital
11:45 am: TJVikings Marching Band
Location: Chimborazo Elementary School (3000 E Marshall St) to Pritchard Brothers Inc. (2720 E Marshall St, Richmond, VA 23223)
12 pm: The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Mozart
Location: Bellevue Elementary School's Harvest Festival (2301 E Grace St)
Music by Sweet Potatoes Music
1:30 pm: Austrian Wine Tasting
Location: Second Bottle Wine (324 N 27th St)
Music by Ninja Strings
2:30 pm: Caffeine, Conniving and Cosi
Location: Riverbend Roastery (2623 E Broad St)
A cast will perform a scene from Mozart's opera Cosi Fan Tutte
3:00 pm: Mozart 101: Mozart’s Starling
Location: Sub Rosa Bakery (620 N 25th St)
Hosts: Timshel Purdum (Virginia C. Ellett Director of Education, Science Museum of Virginia) and Joshua Borths (Virginia Opera Resident Scholar & Development Assistant)
4 pm: Happy Hour with RVA Ensembles
Location: Historic Graveyard at St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)
Rain Location: Parish Hall
Wine, beer, and food by Brekkie will be available
5:30 pm: Costume Contest
Location: Historic Graveyard at St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)
Host: Harry Kollatz, Jr.
Prizes: Grand Prize ($100); Most Creative (Reserved table and a bottle of wine at December 20, 2022 Classical Incarnations at Gallery5); Most Musical (Two tickets to performance at Shockoe Sessions Live at In Your Ear Studio on November 15, 2022)
6 pm: Concertos
Location: Historic St. John's Church (2401 E Broad St)
Conductor: Naima Burrs
Presenting Sponsor: RiverFront Investment Group
Festival Sponsors: Linchpin Real Estate and Monument Family Dentistry
Community Sponsors: Greater Richmond School of Music, Four Strings, Fanfare Studio, and The Great Big Everything
Sponsors: Trapezium Brewing Company and Virginia Opera