Moravian Music Festival

Jesus, Still Lead On

July 26-30, 2022
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA

FAQ

Festival Health & Safety

Please Check Back Frequently for Updates and Changes to this Policy

Festival Health & Safety
Protocols & Policy

The Festival will follow strict guidelines to ensure health and safety, including vaccinations, boosters, testing, masking, distancing, and limiting time indoors.
These guidelines will likely adjust as conditions improve.

Awareness of the Issues

At this time we are intending to follow the strictest CoVid precautions during the Festival, since our participants represent a wide range of ages and will be coming from regions of the country/countries with different community CoVid levels.

All visitors and participants must follow the Moravian Music Festival’s health and safety protocols.

Please help us care for our participants and audience, and keep you, and all our sisters and brothers, safe.

An inherent risk of exposure to COVID-19 exists in any public place where people are present. COVID-19 and its variants are highly contagious diseases that may result in personal injury, severe illness, and death. By attending concerts, events, workshops or other activities, you voluntarily assume all risks related to exposure to COVID-19.

* When arriving for a public performance, please go to the tent for approval of documents.

Audience

Safety Protocols and Requirements

The Moravian Music Festival will require face masks for all (from the age of 2 years and up), indoors, with social distancing.

A mask will be provided if you do not have one available.

All audience members must be “fully vaccinated” for Covid, including recommended boosters. These are safe and effective and free.

Up to date vaccination cards and ID will be required for all participants and guests. Please follow the marked areas and instructions when attending any of our venues.

Detailed Requirements

Masks preferred are KN95 and KF94. Masks will be worn covering the nose and mouth.

For concert attendees, proof of up to date vaccines and ID will be checked before admission to concert venues.

Proof of vaccination can be a physical vaccination card, or a photo/scan of a vaccination card on a mobile device.

* Festival participants, simply show your name badge.

Participants / Registrants

Safety Protocols and Requirements

The Moravian Music Festival will require face masks for all (from the age of 2 years and up), indoors, with social distancing.

All participants must be “fully vaccinated” for Covid, including recommended boosters. These are safe and effective and free.

Up to date vaccination cards and ID will be required for all participants when you register.

Detailed Requirements

Masks preferred are KN95 and KF94. Masks will be worn covering the nose and mouth.

A mask will be provided if you do not have one available.

Proof of vaccination can be a physical vaccination card, or a photo/scan of a vaccination card on a mobile device attached to an email.

It is strongly recommended that you bring some CoVid testing kits with you should you become symptomatic. This will simplify the process. Testing will not be done at the Festival. You will need to go to a local site or healthcare facility for testing.

Should you test positive, there is a local hotel that will accommodate your isolation, if rooms are available.
[NOTE: Hotel accommodations will be at your own expense.]

With Appreciation
Jan Christensen, Health & Safety Consultant / Festival Nurse
for her expertise in formulating the Festival policies and protocols.

Quick Facts & Links

About Vaccinations

Details about each vaccine and boosters.

About Community Infection Levels

How to find facts and statistics about Covid.

About PPE

Recommended items and sources.

Definitions

Terminology and Definitions.

Communications

Be ready for festival week !

Festival Communications

This website has most of the information you need for the Festival.
However, things change, sometimes at the last minute.

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Daily Schedule

this is a Protected Feature – registered participants only !

Find

A map of the Festival campus and links to other resources.

Facilities & Venues

Need Assistance

Contact information for the Festival Committee, MMF staff, and Festival helpers.

Contact Us

Notifications

Notifications will be sent to the Festival participants Email list and through the Yapp app (SMS mass text and push notifications). This is a process by which everyone gets the same message instantly.

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More information to follow, once our Festival App is activated.

Festival Communications

Festival Website

The website will continually be updated and improved, with more information added as plans come together.

Festival Email

Once you register, you will begin to receive regular updates in a Festival Email.

Festival App

Most of your daily information needs in one place, at your fingertips!
Once you register, you will have the option to receive mass texts on the Yapp app (SMS).
Then, when the Yapp app is activated, you will start to receive reminders and important changes or updates by SMS. This is a mass text that goes to all registrants.

We are also able to segment the list, so that we can send a more specific note, say, from the Handbell Director to ringers to adjust the start time or remind you to ‘bring gloves.’ Or, from the prelude Band Director to everyone to request that everyone bring ‘both green and blue chorale books.’

Festival App

Festival Experience

About

Open to all;
and, designed specifically for both amateur and professional musicians in the Moravian Church.

More Info

A Festival Memory by Bishop Sam Gray

The first… Festival that I attended. I was a bit nervous ,,, and (I was) also somewhat in awe of Thor Johnson and Ewald Nolte. But a group of women, the “Unionville Altos,” took me under their wing and made me feel right at home.

In 1987, I attended the Festival in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada… it was a beautiful and meaningful experience. Director Dick Schantz told me that one of the soloists was ill and unable to sing in the evening concert and …asked me to fill in on the quartet. My five minutes of fame!

Another good memory is from the 1990 Festival … I was serving as a missionary in Honduras at that time. I brought a small group from Honduras – “Prana” – with me and we were invited to present a mini-concert to raise awareness of “Moravian music” with a Central American flavor.

It was a very joyful experience for me to be able to take part in the 2013 Festival in Bethlehem with my son, Christian, playing (string double bass) in the orchestra, and my wife, Lorena, present in the congregation.

Great music, great fellowship, great memories!
—
Bishop Sam Gray
Pastor, New Philadelphia Moravian Church

Enjoy some sights and sounds from past Festivals:

Past Festivals

Contact Us

Moravian Music Festival

a celebration of music, created with inspiration, and presented with joy.

Public Concerts & Services
Festival YouTube
Donate Now
Complete Listing of Festival Administration

Moravian Music Foundation Staff
& Festival Committee Contacts

(click on names for email)

For Payments, Donations, Packets, Registration Information, Room & Board, Sales, and general inquiries

Sarah Wright

336-725-0651

For Sessions, Music Editions, Concerts, Concert Programs & Odes, Events, Sponsorships

Nola Reed Knouse

336-725-0651

For Schedules, Registration (technical), Room & Board, Ensembles, Publicity, Website, YouTube, Festival App

Erik Salzwedel

336-725-0651

For Sessions, Music Editions, Sponsorships, Copyright, Events, Children’s and Youth Music

Gwyneth Michel

610-866-3340

Chair of Festival Planning Committee
For General Questions about Festival Planning, Scheduling, Meals & Housing, Facilities, etc. and Offers to Volunteer

Hank Naisby

610-346-8064

For General Info, Inquiries, Participant Needs, Volunteers

Festival app

Registered Participants only

Children & Youth Program Leaders

You are welcome to reach out directly to leaders of your child’s program area.

Sarah Hriniak

ACTS Director

ACTS Musical Theater Production Leader; Director of the Youth Musical Theater production of ACTS.

CONTACT

Myra Jones

Children’s Program Leader

Children’s Activities Leader will organize meals, schedules, activities, field trips, that are not directly related to the ACTS musical.

CONTACT

Lynnette Delbridge

Youth Program Leader

Program Leader for Middle and High School Youth will facilitate youth social gatherings and activities.

Contact

www.MoravianMusic.org

The Festival is managed by the

Moravian Music Foundation

www.moravianmusic.org

Office

Archie K Davis Center
457 S Church Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101

and

Moravian Archives
41 W Locust Street
Bethlehem, PA 18018

Via Email

info@moravianmusic.org
sales@moravianmusic.org
sarah@moravianmusic.org

Via Phone

in Winston-Salem: 336-725-0651
in Bethlehem: 610-866-3340

Concert Calendar

Festival Concerts, Worship Services, and Preludes
Free and Open to the Public

  • July 27, 2022
    • New Moravian MusicNew Moravian MusicTime: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
      A Concert of New Music by Moravian composers of our time. Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
    • Prelude: Band (trombone choir)Prelude: Band (trombone choir)Time: 7:15 pm – 7:55 pm
      7:15 Band Prelude by Trombones Belfry and Lawn of Central Moravian Church + Google calendar
    • Opening WorshipOpening WorshipTime: 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
      Worship Service of Music
      (Communion/Lovefeast):
      with Unitas Chorale       Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
  • July 28, 2022
    • The Rollins College ConnectionThe Rollins College ConnectionTime: 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm
      John Sinclair, Nola R. Knouse, and Friends present a varied concert by students and former students, and share experiences from years of collaborative projects. Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
    • Prelude: Band (youth & mixed winds)Prelude: Band (youth & mixed winds)Time: 6:45 pm – 7:25 pm
      chorales – open to all players Lawn of Central Moravian Church + Google calendar
    • Pipes & PedalsPipes & PedalsTime: 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm
      A varied program by Moravian organists from around the country Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
  • July 29, 2022
    • Summer SerenadesSummer SerenadesTime: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
      Music by the ensembles:
      Trombone Choir
      Handbell Choir
      Steel Pan Ensemble
      New Worship Ensemble
      other chamber and mixed ensembles
      (order to be determined)       Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
    • Prelude: Band (full mixed winds)Prelude: Band (full mixed winds)Time: 6:45 pm – 7:25 pm
      chorales – open to all players Lawn of Central Moravian Church + Google calendar
    • Festival Chorus & OrchestraFestival Chorus & OrchestraTime: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
      A concert of anthems and orchestral works with the Festival Chorus and featured soloists. Premiere by composer, Kim André Arnesen, Jesus Still Lead On Central Moravian Church: Sanctuary Map+ Google calendar
  • July 30, 2022
    • ACTS – youth musicalACTS – youth musicalTime: 9:00 am – 10:00 am
      Performance: Festival Children and Youth.
      A cleverly creative play about "acting" out our Christian lives, following the "Acts" of the Apostles, and using our musical and "act"-ing talents.       Foy Concert Hall Map+ Google calendar
    • Festival Concert BandFestival Concert BandTime: 10:30 am – 11:30 am
      The Concert Band is a mixed wind ensemble of all ages and levels, presenting a wide variety of music, sacred and secular, both Moravian and non-Moravian, led by Allen Frank. Foy Concert Hall Map+ Google calendar

(click on any item to see details)

Calendar of Public Concerts and Worship Services

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At those performances, everyone realized that here was something momentous; here was musical history in the making,
not only for the Moravian Church, but for the United States as a whole. – Mary Virginia Borhek (1950, at the first Festival)

Festival Registration

Register online for each adult! Youth and children use a different form. Links below.

Level

ADULT

This online registration form will capture information for yourself and other adults registering with you, and accept your payment.

Register
Elevation

CHILDREN & YOUTH

Children and Youth are free to sign up.
Please complete one form for each child.
Parent registration is not required in order to register children.

Sign Up

How online registration works…

Any adult may register for the Festival and pay through our online registration site.
If a second adult would like to register, there will be an option near the end of the first form to “add a second registration.” You will enter that individual and their choices, then pay altogether.

On our Regfox Online Registration site:

  • You will see an opportunity to donate to the Festival.
  • You will see an opportunity to purchase a t-shirt.

We offer discount coupons…

  • for registrants from the New York area Moravian churches
  • for young adults
  • for travel from the Western District, NP and Canada

Please let us know if the registration fee presents any difficulty for you. Call Sarah at 336-725-0651 (sarah@moravianmusic.org) to receive a code for reduced rate.