Bring your family on a journey to the mountains! Hear Caroline Shaw’s glorious and colorful orchestral adaptation of the beloved book, “The Mountain that Loved a Bird,” narrated by local poet Sati Mookherjee. We’ll tip-toe through the Hall of the Mountain King, hoping to escape A Night on Bald Mountain. In the hour before the concert begins, enjoy the hands-on experiences our Children’s Music Fair has to offer including an Instrument Petting Zoo brought to you by Bellingham Wind Works and a craft with the Children's Museum of Skagit County. (Sensory friendly only enter at 12:30pm)

Modest Mussorgsky
A Night on Bald Mountain

Edvard Grieg
In the Hall of the Mountain King

Caroline Shaw
The Mountain that Loved a Bird

Total Runtime: 35 minutes

NARRATOR

Sati Mookherjee

Sati Mookherjee’s third poetry collection, Deś, is forthcoming from Tupelo Press. She is the author of Eye(Ravenna Press, 2022) and Ways of Being (Albiso Award, MoonPath Press, 2023). Her work appears widely in literary magazines and anthologies; recent work appears or is forthcoming in Best Spiritual Literature (2025 edition); Poetry Northwest, Gulf Coast Journal, Michigan Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, and The Massachusetts Review. She is a five-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a past Artist Trust Fellow. Her collaborations with contemporary classical composers have been performed or recorded by ensemble and solo musicians (The Esoterics, Contemporary Chamber Composers and Players, soprano Hope Wechkin). Sati previously appeared with Skagit Symphony in 2024 (“Longing for Home”) as guest poet.

Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she was graduated from the University of Washington (BA) and the University of Washington School of Medicine (MD). Sati is a former member of the Corporate Board of the Boys and Girls Club of Whatcom County, a founding board member of CommunityWise Bellingham, and former Board Chair of the Whatcom Community Foundation. In 2011 she co-founded Sendan Center, a child and adolescent mental and behavioral health clinic that serves children, families and schools in Whatcom and Skagit Counties, and served as COO for a decade.

Sati is passionate about sharing the pleasures of poetry and is regularly asked to speak to audiences of all kinds, from healthcare professional groups, to bookclubs, to students of all ages and levels. She is presently a teaching poet with the Skagit River Poetry Festival’s Poets in Schools program, and Vice President of the Board of Directors of the CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival.

For information about upcoming appearances, please visit at satimookherjee.com.