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Performing Arts
Founded in 1962, the Marblehead Festival
of Arts held its first Arts Festival in July, 1963. Performing Arts was an integral part of that first Festival and has continued to play an important role through the present day.
In 1963, Performing Arts chairperson James D. Lee, who had connections with President John F. Kennedy, arranged for the U.S.S. Abbot to moor outisde Marblehead Harbor and for the U.S. Navy band to play a concert from the center of the harbor on the night of July 4. Lee and June Goldman were able to draw on other connections to persuade E. Virginia Williams to bring her new Boston Ballet to the stage at Training Field Hill. Well known folk performers Jackie Washington, Lisa Kindred, and Mark Spoelestra, the classical Fine Arts Woodwind Quintet, and the Marblehead Little Theatre rounded out the program.
The following Performing Arts lineups may be viewed in a new browser window:
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