On any given weekend, you’re likely to find a festival with musicians performing, but at the Chimera Arts center’s first Maker Music Festival, you’ll also see some of them showing how they create their own instruments.
The Sebastopol nonprofit, founded in 2012, offers its 150 members a wood, metal and jewelry shop stocked with tools to help artists, craftsmen, inventors and “tinkerers” turn their ideas into reality, said board president Joe Szuecs (pronounced “Sooch”). Members can also get advice and training as needed.
The daylong Saturday event will feature demonstrations, how-to projects, hand-on activities and a full schedule of live performances onstage. The organization hopes to raise its own profile while showing folks a good time.
“We occasionally have crafts fairs for our members that are open to the public, but this is our first music event,” said…
