The Eastern Shore Chamber Music Festival is a classical chamber music festival based along the Eastern Shore of Mobile Bay, AL. Fairhope native and violinist, Sahada Buckley, and cellist, Trace Johnson, are the artistic directors of ESCMF and curators for the festival. The inaugural ESCMF concert season was hosted at the Fairhope Unitarian Fellowship in Fairhope, AL, where ESCMF performed six different chamber programs from nineteen composers from May 28 - June 11, 2023. The 2024 festival will take place over 3 weeks from May 31- June 16, 2024.

All ESCMF summer season concerts are free of charge. ESCMF programs feature masterworks from the chamber repertoire by household names like Schubert, Beethoven, and Brahms alongside exciting contemporary works from living composers like Guillaume Connesson, Valerie Coleman, Paul Wiancko, and Jessie Montgomery.

Artistic Directors, Sahada Buckley and Trace Johnson, and the ESCMF artists bring professional knowledge and experience to Fairhope by performing and teaching chamber music that inspires further involvement in classical music performance along the eastern shore of the Mobile Bay. In addition to being world-class performers, Sahada and Trace are dedicated teachers who believe that long-term musical growth begins at the earliest stages. Each year ESCMF will offer educational music intensives for local music students led by festival artists; in 2023, ESCMF artists and local youth musicians were featured in a special side-by-side concert in Fairhope on June 10 where they played Florence Price’s Morning Sunbeam with ESCMF Artists.