Tuesday, July 26, 2016

Create your own concert at Ouabache SP

Visitors to Ouabache State Park can create their own music concert as part of Art in the Park programs on July 30 and Aug. 13.

Trained facilitators will lead participants in music improvisation, including singing and drumming. No experience is needed.

On both July 30 and Aug. 13, sessions will be held at 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The sessions will last 30 minutes. Participation is free after paying park admission.

On July 30, the 4:30 p.m. session is at the swimming pool lawn, and the 7:30 p.m. session is at Campview Shelter.

On Aug. 13, the 4:30 p.m. session is at Lakeview Shelter, and the 7:30 p.m. session is at Kunkel Lake.

The music facilitators will be Pam Blevins Hinkle and Sally Childs-Helton. Blevins-Hinkle is the director of the Spirit and Place Festival, and an instrumentalist, singer, and choral and music conductor, and has been teaching guided music improvisation for more than 10 years. Childs-Helton is a percussionist, ethnomusicologist, music educator, and improvising musician, and has been teaching guided music improvisation for more than 20 years.

State Park admission fees are $7 per IN vehicle; $9 per out-of-state vehicle.


Ouabache State Park (stateparks.IN.gov/2975.htm) is at 4930 E. St. Rd. 201, Bluffton, 46714.

To view all DNR news releases, please see dnr.IN.gov.



Media contact: Teresa Rody, interpretive naturalist, Upper Wabash Interpretive Services, (260) 468-2127.