Getty Center to present family event

The Getty Center will present a family festival featuring music, storytelling and art-making workshops from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sat., March 25 at 12 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles.

All events are free. The parking fee is $7 per car.

The festival is inspired by the current exhibition "Courbet and the Modern Landscape" and will explore French and American folk traditions and unique landscapes.

The Goin' South Band will perform on the museum courtyard stage from 1 to 1:45 p.m. The group is known for its "show-stopping" performances of traditional 19th century American folk music from old Delta blues to Appalachian mountain music.

The Mad Alsacians will play from noon to 12:45 p.m. and from 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. on the GRI lawn and again from 4 to 4:45 p.m. on the museum courtyard stage. Led by pianist and accordionist Jean-Paul Monsche, the group joins with French singer Jessica Vautor to take the audience on a tour of the French landscape with renditions from the traditional and regional French songbook.

Storytellers will spin their tales throughout the day in the courtyard and lecture hall. The artists include the theater troupe We Tell Stories (French fables), Michael Katz (interactive storytelling) and Angela Lloyd, who will sing and tell fables and fairy tales from France and America accompanied by unusual musical instruments.

Art-making workshops will be presented in the courtyard and garden areas from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Marni Gittleman will teach participants how to create a Courbet-inspired landscape inside a box using collage and pop-up techniques. Marianne Sadowski will show how to use transparent film and layers of colored cellophane to create a translucent creation resembling the trees found in Courbet's masterpieces.

For a complete schedule of activities or more information, call (310) 440-7300.