Berkeley Festival and Exhibition
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| Berkeley Festival & Exhibition (BFX) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Early Music |
| Dates | June every other year |
| Location(s) | San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States |
| Years active | 1990-present |
| Organised by | SFEMS |
| Website | https://berkeleyfestival.org/ |
The Berkeley Festival & Exhibition (BFX) is a week long, biennial early music festival held in the San Francisco Bay Area in California, United States. BFX is produced by the non-profit San Francisco Early Music Society (SFEMS).
Founded in 1990, the festival started as a mirror event to take place during Boston Early Music Festival and Exhibition's off-years. Today, the BFX festival has become one of the world’s largest and most important early music conclaves, deemed “a remarkable institution on the American musical scene” by The New York Times.
The festival has a main stage in Berkeley, California. Exhibitions and marketplace for period instruments, special events, as well as the Fringe, a collection of self-produced concerts by local performers, are also held in the nearby cities of San Francisco or Palo Alto.
The highlights of the 2022 festival include the Festival debuts of several artists and groups, including the Sollazzo Ensemble in their American debut, as well as the return of BFX favorites Vox Luminis and Rachel Podger. Chanticleer, which began life as a SFEMS affiliate, was back to the 2022 festival stage after more than a decade and a half.
References
- John Rockwell (June 24, 1990) "Reviews/Music; Rarities of 1700's In Berkeley Festival". The New York Times
- Nicholas Jones (June 12, 2018) "Monks Singing Pagans: Lost Songs at the Berkeley Festival". San Francisco Classical Voice
- Staff (March 7, 2022) "Reimagining, Reinventing, Redefining Early Music: Berkeley Festival & Exhibition of early music (BFX) returns in June 2022 for eight days of the best in historically-informed performance" Early Music America