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This Week at the Cape May Music Festival

originally published: 06/09/2025

Shown here, SNACKTIME performs Saturday, June 14 at Cape May Convention Hall. Photo by Stevie Chris

(CAPE MAY, NJ) -- Now celebrating its 36th year, the annual Cape May Music Festival presented by Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture), with major support by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, features more engaging music in its third week.

The second of three Bach’s Lunches is Wednesday, June 11, at 12:30pm, an intimate classical music mini-concert featuring members of the Bay Atlantic Symphony, over lunch at Ocean 7, in the historic Inn of Cape May, 7 Ocean St.

The Bay Atlantic Symphony led by Jed Gaylin, conductor, presents "Serenades and Song” Thursday, June 12 at 7:00pm at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, 612 Franklin St., featuring intimate string orchestra and highlighting sweeping melodies with snappy rhythms by composers from America, Sweden, England, Georgia/Russia and Germany. The program, which will include an intermission, is as follows: “O Magnum Mysterium” by Morton Lauridsen (b. 1943); Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 Dag Wirén (1905-1986); Nocturne for String Orchestra by Alexander Borodin (1833-1887); Serenade for Strings in E Minor, Op. 20 Edward Elgar (1857-1934); and, Octet for String Orchestra in B-flat Major, Op. posth. Max Bruch (1838-1920).

SNACKTIME, Philadelphia’s already beloved seven-piece band with soul, funk, punk, hip hop and rock influences, comes to Cape May Convention Hall, 714 Beach Ave., Saturday, June 14 at 7:00pm. SNACKTIME recently released their debut studio EP, This is Dance Music, recorded and produced by Grammy-nominated Will Yip (Lauryn Hill, Turnstile, Bartees Strange). In describing the band's sound, Paste Magazine said, “combining their influences, which range from jazz to rap to rock to punk and R&B, SNACKTIME is one of the most original ensembles out there right now."




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SNACKTIME began by performing free shows in Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square in the summer of 2020. After attracting huge crowds in the park, the band played their first headlining club show and sold over 900 tickets. Things quickly progressed – the group started selling out headlining shows, supporting national touring artists, and performing at major music festivals. The band recently released their summer anthem "SUNSHINE" and will be on tour throughout the year, including dates supporting Fitz and The Tantrums, and festival appearances at Newport Folk, Roots Picnic, Boston Calling, and more.

SNACKTIME is Yesseh Furaha-Ali on vocals, alto saxophone, percussion; Sam Gellerstein on bass guitar, sousaphone; Austin Marlow on drums; Larry Monroe Jr. on guitar; Eric Sherman on trumpet, guitar; Michael Spearman on trombone, keyboard; and Ben Stocker on tenor saxophone.

The New York Chamber Ensemble presents “The Pinnacle of Chamber Music: Schubert’s Quintet in C Major,” with artistic director Eliot Bailen, cello, Susan Rotholz, flute, and guests, on Sunday, June 15, at 4:00pm at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, 612 Franklin St. The program, with intermission, is as follows: Terzetto by Antonin Dvorak, and Quintet in C Major with two cellos, by Franz Schubert.

Tickets for concerts are available online at capemaymac.org, by phone at 609-884-5404, or in person at each concert or by visiting Hill House Visitor Service Center or Carriage House Visitor Service Center, both at the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., or the Washington Street Mall Information Booth at Washington Street at Ocean Street.

The Cape May Music Festival is sponsored in part with a grant from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and with the support of generous donors including Brown & Brown of New Jersey, LLC, the David R. & Patricia D. Atkinson Foundation, Madison Resorts and the Cape May Star & Wave.




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