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Pop-up orchestra festival launches Saturday at Royal City Park

The Guelph Symphony Orchestra will perform a series of concerts around the city June 3-18
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Members of the Guelph Symphony Orchestra will perform around the city during the 2023 pop-up orchestra festival, beginning Saturday at Royal City Park. Tony Saxon/GuelphToday file photo

Some of your favourite movie themes are set to be played by a live orchestra around Guelph.

The Guelph Symphony Orchestra is back with its free pop-up orchestra festival, launching this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at Royal City Park.

Catherine Molina, the GSO's general manager, said the music will include some "timeless soundtracks and familiar movie themes."

It kicks off a two-week stretch featuring a series of 45-minute concerts performed by the symphony, in "imaginative, unexpected and less formal settings" throughout the city, wrapping up June 18.

Some performances beyond this Saturday include what it calls "relaxed concerts in the stunning private gardens of two Guelph Master Gardeners."

Others include:

  • June 10 at the Guelph Museum - a costumed Kinderconcert of 'Why the Sun and the Moon Live in the Sky,' narrated by Kween
  • June 11 at the Art Gallery of Guelph - a performance of 'The Disappearance of Lisa Gherardini,' better known as the Mona Lisa

More information on the concerts can be found on the GSO's website.


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