[2] The mainstay of the series, which runs from the end of June through early September, is to be found in the chamber music concerts performed by distinguished soloists and ensembles on Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons.

[3] “Maverick” is the name given to the collaborative colony for artists that Hervey White, a “freethinker, socialist, writer, and printer with a genius for friendship,”[4] established on the outskirts of the town of Woodstock, on 102 acres he had bought in 1905.

[6] The Byrdcliffe Colony had been "well-financed and run somewhat autocratically" with a strong sense of designing and planning a legacy and Maverick was "scruffier, more truly communal and anarchic".

[7] The Maverick Festival's opening concert was in August 1915 to raise funds in order to build a well for the colony, and was patterned after the European fairs.

[8][3] The following year in July 1916, a substantial article about the event was published in The New York Times, under the headline “Music Goes Back to Nature.”[9][10] The program consisted of Haydn's String Quartet Op.

[citation needed] The wooden construction and acoustics create an environment well suited to the intimacy of live chamber music, and the Maverick has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1999.

The mainstay of the series, which runs from the end of June through early September, is to be found in the chamber music concerts performed by distinguished soloists and ensembles on Sunday afternoons.