Join us as we celebrate "HARMONY" with The Commonwealth Tour of The Louisville Orchestra!
Wednesday, July 9th at The Bandstand located within Freeman Lake Park.
This concert event is FREE and open to the public, featuring the spectacular Louisville Orchestra!
Food Trucks | Lawn Games | Beer & FUN!
Parking begins at 6:30pm with the performance set to start at 7:30pm.
This event is FREE! Bring a chair or blanket.
Sponsored by our friends at Swope Family of Dealerships, Blue Oval SK, Signarama, Metalsa & The Joule
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The Louisville Orchestra (LO) and Music Director Teddy Abrams – winners of a Grammy Award for Best Classical Instrumental Solo for their collaboration with pianist Yuja Wang on her album The American Project – are thrilled to announce the schedule for the
2025 edition of “In Harmony – The Commonwealth Tour of the Louisville Orchestra.”
The groundbreaking community engagement initiative – just the latest ambitious undertaking contributing to Abrams’s reputation as a “Maestro of the People” who “has embedded himself in
his community, breaking the mold of modern conductors” (The New York Times) – has seen remarkable success since it began in November 2022, reaching more than 34,000 Kentuckians
across 43 counties through more than 154 events.
The 2025 “In Harmony” tour will be split into three parts – in April, July, and September – each featuring different spotlighted performers and repertoire. For the April leg, the guest artists will be Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, returning by popular demand after previously joining the tour in February 2024 and performing orchestral arrangements of their most popular hits.
In addition, this year the tour will overlap with the week of the Kentucky Derby and will include race-themed music – like Morton Feldman’s Flourishes and Galop – as well as a new concerto for pipa by current LO Creators Corps member Baldwin Giang (April 26–May 1).
The July leg of the tour will be an Americana-themed
celebration of the outstanding talent within the orchestra, with several featured soloists drawn from its ranks (July 8–13).
The September leg will be the first time the tour stretches over a
consecutive two-week period, and, because several of the destinations are in Kentucky’s Appalachian region, Copland’s Appalachian Spring will be prominently featured (Sep 11-20).
Each of the tour’s performances will be free to concert goers, thanks to multiple generous budget appropriations from the Kentucky State Legislature. A recap video of the 2024 edition of the In Harmony tour is available online.
"In Harmony" has redefined the concert experience, bringing the orchestra's multidimensional talent to diverse settings – from schools to community centers – while illuminating the shared
heritage of Kentucky's communities. Collaborating artists have included Grammy Award winners Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper, mandolin virtuoso Chris Thile, and violinist Tessa Lark.
In 2025, some of the tour’s previous destinations will be revisited (Prestonsburg, Ashland, Bardstown, Glasgow, Harlan, Beattyville, Campbellsville), and new ones added (Greenville, Hazard,
Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Cumberland Falls State Resort Park). The last of these locations, Cumberland Falls State Resort Park, is the only place in Kentucky – and one of the few in the
country – where it is possible to see a natural phenomenon called a “moonbow,” caused by water droplets suspended in the air refracting the light of the moon, and the performance will feature
new music written by the LO Creators Corps inspired by the phenomenon.
Though the tour has not previously visited the Freeman Lake Park Bandstand in Elizabethtown, the orchestra has played there in the past and looks forward to its return to a new stage that has been built in the interim.
In July, the orchestra will also debut its new mobile stage. This transformative performance venue, also made possible by the tour funding from the Kentucky State Legislature, will open up
new ways for the LO to reach communities through small ensemble engagement work in locations from parks to parking lots.
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