Erie's Heritage Festival

Liberty Park, Main Stage
Noon - 2:30 p.m.	The Erie Philharmonic's Open Rehearsal Take a sneak peak at how Daniel Meyer and the Erie Philharmonic prepare for a concert.
3:00 p.m.	Erie's Heritage Festival officially begins The Spirituals: Then & Then & Then and Now Charles Kennedy, Jr. and friends will present a musical history of the Spirituals. He'll start with African drumming featuring students from Pfeiffer-Burleigh School. He'll then follow the Spirituals as they moved from the fields to church to the concert hall and end the program with explorations of Spirituals in Hip-Hop and Jazz! He'll be joined by an ensemble of musicians and singers featuring Stan Bialomizy on woodwinds.
4:00 p.m.	Celtic Creek A performance of traditional Celtic stories set to music and Great Lakes folk songs. www.celticcreek.com
5:00 p.m.	Shape Note Singers Shape Note Singing (sometimes called Sacred Harp) is unique American tradition that goes back to Colonial times. It isn't a performance tradition, it is a social gathering of people who all sing hymns from a set of hymnals (called the Sacred Harp) and the notation uses shapes so it is easy for people to learn. It is a participatory event, not a performance, although visitors are welcome to come and listen. The singers sit in a hollow square facing each other and take turns leading songs. The songs are sung in three or four parts without instrumental accompaniment. The music has a distinctive open and modal sound, and the singing is usually exuberant, rhythmic and full of feeling. Erie's Shape Note singers consists of 40 - 100 singers (from Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Cleveland and beyond).
6:00 p.m.	Mambo Mambo is a fiery combination of talented, diverse urban musicians with multiple musical backgrounds. The band features Doug on an upright bass, Joel Polacci on congas and drums, Diego on bongos and guiro, Rey on timbales, Charlie on piano and keyboards, Julian "El Cantante" Camacho on vocals, and Julio Quezada on Latin and electric guitar. Whether it is salsa, rumba, bolero, or jazz infused with the bands high-energy Latin beat, Mambo always makes it happen musically. www.mambojazzband.com
6:45 p.m.	The Zem Zem Drum and Bugle Corp An Erie's Heritage Festival tradition is to open with the 'Kilties' – a Drum and Bugle Corp that entertains and raises awareness of Erie's Shriners Hospital for Children. The Zem Zem's formed as a service organization here on the shores of lake Erie in 1890. The unit's kilts (everyone asks about the kilts) were originally a simple red flannel, but today the uniform best emulates the Scottish Highlanders Royal Stewart Tartan
7:00 p.m.	The Erie Philharmonic's 2008 Pops Concert on the Bay Daniel Meyer "will strike up the band" as the new music director of the Erie Philharmonic.
9:00 p.m	Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture (and just in case you find yourself playing Jeopardy and Alex Trebek asks for the full title of the '1812' – it's "The Year 1812" in E flat major, Op. 49; French: Ouverture solennelle 1812) The overture commemorates the unsuccessful French invasion into Russia, and the subsequent withdrawal that devastated Napoleon's Grande Armée, an event that marked 1812 as the major turning point of the Napoleonic Wars. Here in Erie we do it right with cannons, howitzers and fireworks. The '1812' is followed by Stars and Stripes Forever.

Liberty Park, Living Heritage
3:00-6:00 p.m.	Meet local heroes of the Underground Railroad and "experience" their stories of triumph. Presented by the *Harry T. Burleigh Society. The expERIEnce Children's Museum's* tent offers crafts and activities for Kids of all ages. Sail making, knot-tying, boat-building demonstrations. Presented by *Erie Maritime Museum* & Bayfront Center for Maritime Studies.

Liberty Park, Ethnic Marketplace
3:00-6:00 p.m.	Celebrate our community's diversity through food, dance, music and crafts. The Marketplace features several large tents filled with artisans and traditional foods, while the World Stage offers local cultural groups the opportunity to demonstrate dance, music, traditional costume and more. Be sure to bring an appetite and a world traveler's sense of adventure! Ethnic Marketplace World Stage Schedule

Liberty Park, Eat, Drink & Be Maritime
Noon - 9:30 p.m.	Local food vendors: