BRUNSWICK – The Bowdoin International Music Festival has been awarded a grant of $6,375 from the Alfred M. Senter Fund to carry out a celebration of the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth, including an intensive European-style festival on the weekend of July 21.

The Bowdoin Festival will hold several free concerts in new venues in the Bath-Brunswick area on this weekend.

“The Alfred M. Senter Fund has become an important resource to cultural organizations in our area that are trying to expand their programs,” said Peter Simmons, executive director of the music festival. “We are grateful for their support of our efforts to make this great music accessible to everyone. “

The Senter Fund grant will support concert and outreach activities involving Mozart specialists of international stature during the festival season, June 24 to Aug. 5. Final plans for the Mozart weekend will be announced in the spring.

For more information, visit www.bowdoinfestival.org.

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