Worcester Music Festival, Massachusetts

Worcester Music Festival
GenreClassical
Location(s)Mechanics Hall (Worcester, Massachusetts)
Years active1858–present
FoundersEdward Hamilton
Benjamin F. Baker
Websitewww.musicworcester.org

Worcester Music Festival is a classical music festival held in Worcester, Massachusetts, since 1858, and it is claimed to be the oldest music festival in the United States.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Music Worcester Receives Funding from the Massachusetts Cultural Council". Massachusetts Classical News. Classical Voice of New England. Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  2. ^ Smither, Howard E. (2000). "Worcester Music Festival". A History of the Oratorio: The oratorio in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Vol. 4. University of North Carolina Press. p. 416. ISBN 978-0-8078-2511-2. Retrieved March 5, 2012.