Save the Date: Summer Festival 2026
Blue Hill Bach’s Summer Festival returns July 12–18, 2026.
A week you won’t want to miss. Throughout the festival, music fills churches, libraries, barns, and inns across the peninsula.
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Tickets go on sale May 1.
Festival Programs
Voices of the Bach Family
Sacred expressions of anguish, death, joy, and fulfillment
Johann Christoph Bach: Ach dass ich Wassers gnug hätte
J.S. Bach: Ich habe genug (BWV 82)
J.S. Bach: Jesu, meine Freude (BWV 227)
Music for organ on the Karl Wilhelm tracker
A Revolutionary Café: Tories, Rebels, Citizens, and Spies!
Dances, marches, and songs shaped by revelry, conflict, and conspiracy, celebrating America at 250.
Festival Finale: Gloria!
J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2
J.S. Bach: Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf
J.S. Bach: Concerto for Three Violins
Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D major
Throughout the Week
Free public events take place throughout the festival:
A toddler music program in collaboration with the Blue Hill Public Library
Bach’s Lunch — a picnic lunch and lecture at the Barncastle Inn
A Young Artist Fellowship masterclass and recital
A pre-concert talk at the Brooksville Library before the performance at David’s Folly Farm