LAKEPORT, Calif. – Lake County’s own community orchestra has been entertaining music-lovers since 1978.
On Saturday, Oct. 15, the Lake County Library’s monthly free lecture series “Know Lake County” will highlight the Lake County Symphony Association, or LCSA, and the Lake County Youth Orchestra.
The program will be held at the Lakeport branch of Lake County Library at 1425 N. High St. from 2 to 4 p.m.
Greg Bushta, second vice president of the LCSA and a violinist with the orchestra, will talk about the symphony association and the orchestra.
Youth orchestra director Susan Condit will introduce Rafael Contreras, concertmaster of the youth orchestra to talk about the youth orchestra.
The lecture will include a video performance of the youth orchestra.
Condit is a violinist with the Lake County Symphony and teaches a 4/5 combination class, a music class and a violin class at the Konocti Education Center, a visual and performing arts magnet school for grades four through eight in the Konocti Unified School District.
Contreras is an eighth-grade student at the Konocti Education Center. He has been playing fiddle and violin since he was a small child and has won numerous fiddle contests.
The Lake County Symphony is a community orchestra composed of both professional and amateur musicians. Each year the orchestra presents a classical concert in November, a holiday concert in December and a pops concert in May.
The youth orchestra performs at each Lake County Symphony concert and presents its own annual concert in June. The Web site for the symphony association is www.clearlakeperformingarts.com .
The Know Lake County lectures feature speakers from a wide array of organizations and disciplines, each representing some aspect of Lake County.
Still to come in 2016 is Nick Kent, manager of the Boggs Mountain State Demonstration State Forest.
The Lake County Library is on the Internet at http://library.lakecountyca.gov and Facebook at www.Facebook.com/LakeCountyLibrary .
For more information call the library at 707-263-8817.
Jan Cook works for the Lake County Library.