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The, brings together mentor musicians with pre-professional musicians during the first two weeks of June to perform chamber and orchestral music. Venues are located at various sites in the historic downtown district.
The Hot Springs Music Festival was a not-for-profit educational music festival held in Hot Springs National Park, Hot Springs, Arkansas. During the first two weeks of June, "pre-professional" musicians joined professional mentor musicians in performance of concert music. Yearly programs included 4 orchestral concerts and numerous chamber music concerts. Venues included the Oaklawn Performing Arts School and various churches in the city. All rehearsals were open to the public. Approximately 10,000 people attended the festival to watch 20 concerts and 250 rehearsals. Additionally, around 6.4 million people tuned in to listen via radio.
The visitor center in the former Fordyce Bathhouse is also a 24-room museum offering self-guided tours. Considered the most elegant bathhouse when completed in 1915, it exhibits beautiful mosaic tile floors, marble, stained glass windows and ceilings, a gymnasium, and routine bathing equipment. The 15-minute orientation movie, Valley of Vapors, offers a brief history of the area. Taking the Baths is a 9-minute video showing the traditional bathing routine in the Hot Springs bathhouses. Rest rooms and water fountains are located in the basement. Other rooms shown include the music room, massage rooms and a bowling alley.
Includes the Fordyce Bathhouse and seven other bathhouses all built in the early 20th century. The Row is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Aside from the Fordyce which serves as the park visitor center, the Buckstaff and the Quapaw are the only other operating bathhouses that are still in use as a spa. The other bathhouses are vacant but awaiting new uses.
The present Hale Bathhouse is the oldest visible structure on Bathhouse Row. The Mission Revival-style bathhouse is a textbook case of the changes in use and design of bathhouses buildings in Hot Springs National Park.
A landscaped walkway behind Bathhouse Row which offers a glimpse of the springs and historic landscape features. Entrances are from behind the Visitor Center and from Fountain Street.
Garvan Woodland Gardens. Learn more about its natural flora and fauna.