The 2025 Labor Day Festival will not be held this year due to scheduling conflicts. Rising high school seniors are encouraged to apply to audition for the McDuffie Center on Sunday, February 8, 2026. For more information on auditions, click here.
The Labor Day Festival is an intensive, hands-on, three-day workshop with McDuffie faculty, limited to just 8 rising high school seniors: 4 violinists, 2 violists, and 2 cellists.
Participants take part in master classes, coachings and rehearsals as they prepare for the festival’s closing concert, when they perform string quartets as well as play with the McDuffie Center String Ensemble.
The workshop program is FREE for accepted participants to attend, who only need to pay for their travel to and from Mercer University. All other expenses during the workshop are covered.
