10:30-11:45am

Free Family Event featuring a hike along the Nee Kee Nee Trail with EcoTones musicians, storytime, and outdoor crafts led by the SLPL Carpenter Branch’s children’s librarian. *This event will only include a quintet of EcoTones musicians and is designed for the very youngest concert-goer.

2:00pm ALL AGES FULL ECOTONES ENSEMBLE TICKETED EVENT

This whimsical, innovative live performance event invites audiences to interact with & listen to musicians along a half-mile “Music Trail” along Tower Grove Park’s Nee Kee Nee Stream (Osage for “revived water”), an enchanting and recently constructed trail surrounded by native prairie plantings alongside a recently day-lighted stream in Tower Grove Park’s eastern quadrant. The “Music Trail” with EcoTones musicians in small group configuration along the trail, will be followed by a convergence of all the musicians together at Stupp Amphitheater for a full large ensemble concert set. The sit-down 75-minute concert set will feature 14 world-class professional musicians of the EcoTones Ensemble performing live creative acoustic music inspired by Nee Kee Nee’s Urban Prairie and its resident flora & fauna.

EcoTones @ River Hook Preserve on Sunday, June 2, 2024 at 2:00 pm (rain date of June 9 at 2:00 pm) invites audiences to walk a half-mile Music Trail through Upper Nyack’s River Hook Preserve, hearing small ensembles play music inspired by the park’s flora & fauna, followed by a sit-down concert featuring the professionals of the EcoTones Ensemble alongside the Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Tanya Chanphanitpornkit. Audience members self-pace along the meandering Music Trail with small ensembles performing at a ‘Birdsong Stage’, a ‘Flora and Fauna Percussion Grove’, a trio of 12-foot Alphorns in the former sheep pasture, a ‘Wood Stage,’ and a 'Water Percussion Stage' at the Spring House. Following the Music Trail portion of the event, all musicians and audience convene at the preserve’s central carriage house for a wheelchair-and-stroller-accessible sit-down concert set. The full ensemble will perform musical selections inspired by the nearby Hudson River, Hook Mountain, and the concept that everyone belongs in this treasured public nature space—human and nonhuman alike.

EcoTones is thrilled to partner with local arts nonprofit ArtsRock.org to present this event open to the public, and thanks the Trustees of the Village of Upper Nyack for making this event possible, as well as the generous support of local business sponsors Greenbush Construction and Long Path Outfitters. The performance features world-class, Grammy-nominated and Grammy-winning professional musicians from Rockland and Westchester Counties and the surrounding region, alongside the Nyack High School Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Tanya Chanphanitpornkit.

BYO- camp chairs, picnic blankets, snacks, and drinks. Audience members should wear footwear appropriate for a sloped, gravel path. The event requires advanced registration and tickets are Pay As You Choose with some free tickets available by request at ecotonesconcerts@gmail.com.