The 2010 Edward MacDowell Medal is presented to jazz saxophonist and composer Sonny Rollins under the Medal Day tent.

Enjoy an old-fashioned picnic on the grounds of the Colony, relaxing in the summer beauty of New Hampshire. Guests may bring their own picnic lunches or pre-order a MacDowell picnic basket catered by Luca’s Mediterranean Café of Keene. Picnic baskets, which are $20 each, must be ordered online by August 8th.

Catch a glimpse of the artistic synergy between music and painting in this slide show of artwork created by young artists from local schools. More than 60 children at the Dublin Consolidated School, Peterborough Elementary School, and Temple Elementary School created paintings while listening to a recorded version of “To a Wild Rose” (composed by Edward MacDowell and performed by Sonny Rollins), as well a live rendition of Rollins’s classic, “St. Thomas.” The Colony is grateful to the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation for sponsorship of this special Make Art program.

This special Medal Day concert will feature tunes associated with Sonny Rollins’s long and storied career. Featuring Colony Fellow and jazz pianist Fred Hersch, bassist John Hébert, and drummer Eric McPherson, The Fred Hersch Trio has performed in Europe and the United States to great acclaim, including memorable runs at New York’s famed Village Vanguard. The Trio released its first CD, Whirl, on Palmetto Records in June.

Tour the Colony’s artist studios and interact with artists-in-residence, who provide an illuminating and compelling immersion into the artistic process that takes place every day of the year at MacDowell.