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View our historical event listings for past seasons to see a snapshot of An Appalachian Summer Festival through the years.

2024 Season

  • An Evening with Natalie Merchant: Keep Your Courage Tour with Western Piedmont Symphony
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with special guest Béla Fleck
  • Helen and Stephen Weicholz Global Film Series: Fallen Leaves
  • Chanticleer
  • Summer Exhibition Celebration
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Helene and Stephen Weicholz Global Film Series: The Taste of Things
  • Canadian Brass
  • Buddy Guy: Damn Right Farewell
  • Rosen Sculpture Walk
  • Norm Lewis
  • Helene and Stephen Weicholz Global Film Series: Perfect Days
  • Bell-Denk-Isserlis Trio
  • St. Paul & The Broken Bones
  • Simone Dinnerstein & Awadagin Pratt
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company: Airs, Syzygy, Esplanade
  • Brad Paisley: Son of the Mountains World Tour

2023 Season

  • An Evening with Leslie Odom, Jr.
  • Nancy Tafeen Global Film Series: The Blue Caftan
  • Apollo’s Fire: The Road to Dublin
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Calidore String Quartet
  • Summer Exhibition Celebration
  • Lea Salonga
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Gil Shaham (violin) and Winfred Felton (bassoon)
  • Nancy Tafeen Global Film Series: Aurora’s Sunrise
  • Strings for Peace
  • John Oates
  • Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of Comedy (abridged)
  • Nancy Tafeen Global Film Series: Alcarràs
  • Dance Theatre of Harlem
  • Keb’ Mo’ with special guest Allison Russell
  • Nancy Tafeen Global Film Series: Girl Picture
  • Garrick Ohlsson, piano
  • Darius Rucker (Opening Act: Lindsay Ell)

2022 Season

  • Summer Exhibition Celebration
  • Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives
  • Maeve Gilchrist (harp) featuring Aizuri Quartet & Kyle Sanna: The Harpweaver
  • Broadway’s Next Hit Musical
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Playground (Un Monde)
  • esperanza spalding in Concert
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Santiago Rodriguez (piano)
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty Chamber Players: Together at the Table
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Belfast
  • Todd Wright Quartet
  • Renee Elise Goldsberry
  • Imani Winds
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: When Pomegranates Howl
  • Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox: The Grand Reopening Tour
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Rolston String Quartet
  • Boz Scaggs: Out of the Blues Tour 2022
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: On the Water (Vee Peal)
  • MOMIX: Alice

2021 Season

  • Summer Exhibition Celebration
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Emerson String Quartet
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Quo Vadis, Aida?
  • Parsons Dance
  • Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
  • Canadian Brass
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: The Road to Mandalay
  • NC Black Repertory Company: Freedom Summer
  • Tessa Lark (violin) and Michael Thurber (bass)
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell & Megan Hilty
  • Tesla Quartet
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Transit
  • Alan Cumming & Ari Shapiro: OCH & OY! a considered cabaret
  • Rosen-Schaffel 10th Anniversary Celebration featuring Andrew Rene and Morgan Short
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Complicity
  • Julian Gargiulo: Pianist with the Hair
  • Ranky Tanky

2020 Season

  • Hayes School of Music Faculty: A Musical Salon on a Summer’s Evening
  • All Star Orchestra: The New World and its Music
  • Tesla Quartet
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: The Charmer
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty: Songs for Summer
  • Shana Tucker: An Evening of ChamberSoul
  • Parsons Dance: Caught at Home with David Parsons
  • Canadian Brass
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Portrait of a Lady on Fire
  • Kraut Creek Ramblers & Liam Purcell and Cane Mill Road
  • NC Black Repertory: My Life in Theatre
  • Introducing Sarah Jones and Friends’ (Who Live in Her Head)
  • Julian Gargiulo: Pianist with the Hair (live from Paris)
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Corpus Christi
  • Appalachian State Symphony Orchestra: Rite of Spring
  • National Players presents As You Like It
  • Emerson String Quartet
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Honeyland
  • Todd Wright & Friends: What the World Needs Now
  • Kruger Brothers

2019 Season

  • Ben Folds with the Winston-Salem Symphony
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Trio Takes Form
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Bridging the Classical and Romantic Divide
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Sing Street
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: A Taxi Driver
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • NC Black Repertory Company: Plenty of Time
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: An Elephant’s Journey
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Capernaum
  • The Business
  • Pilobolus: Come to Your Sense
  • Patti LaBelle
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Awadagin Pratt (piano) and Morgan Short (harp)
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Fanny’s Journey
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Perfect Strangers
  • Tesla Quartet: Tapas & Tesla, An Evening of Chamber Music
  • Chris Botti
  • An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Storm Boy
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Becoming Astrid
  • Broadway’s Next Hit Musical
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Four Bs
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Potpourri
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Cinnamon
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: A Translator
  • Punch Brothers
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Never Look Away
  • Concert & Dance Party with The Temptations

2018 Season

  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Where in the World? Part 1
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Amazonia
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: In Between
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Songs with (and without) Words
  • Concert & Dance Party with Kool & the Gang
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Swallows and Amazons
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: In The Fade
  • Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
  • I’m With Her
  • Shaken & Stirred: Michael Feinstein and special guest Storm Large
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Misha Dichter (piano) and Eva Wetzel (violin)
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Viva Cuba
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: A Fantastic Woman
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty: Iconic, Intimate, and Innovative
  • The Business
  • NC Black Repertory Company: The Legend of Buster Neal
  • The Hot Sardines
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Where in the World? Part 2
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Wunderkinder
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Summer 1993
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: An Evening with Old Friends
  • Rhiannon Giddens
  • BodyTraffic
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Live eTown Radio Show Taping
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Jasper Jones
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Paradise
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: From the Land of the Moon
  • An Intimate Evening with Kristin Chenoweth

2017 Season

  • Young People’s Global Film Series: My Lucky Elephant
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: The Innocents
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Business
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Worlds Apart
  • An Evening with Sutton Foster
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Midori and Hunter Bockes
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Virginia’s Run
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Rams
  • NC Black Repertory Company: Maid’s Door
  • Jennifer Nettles
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Duma
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: I, Daniel Blake
  • MOMIX: Opus Cactus
  • Chris Botti
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Secrets of War
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Glory
  • Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers
  • Charlotte Ballet
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Theeb
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Tanna
  • YES with special guests Todd Rundgren & Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy

2016 Season

  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Labyrinth of Lies
  • The Hit Men
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Difret
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Music: So What’s the Story? Part I
  • Reduced Shakespeare Company: William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged)
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Oddball and the Penguins
  • An Evening with Broadway Star Kelli O’Hara
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Marco Núñez and Julian Schwarz
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: The Dinner
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: On the Way to School
  • Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and Melissa Etheridge
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Baba Joon
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Music: So What’s the Story? Part II
  • RIOULT Dance NY
  • Pink Martini
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: 3 Hearts
  • In/Visible Theatre: Mauzy
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Belle and Sébastian
  • Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Tangerines
  • Young People’s Global Film Series: Marie’s Story
  • Jerry Douglas Band with special guest Mipso
  • An Evening with The Avett Brothers

2015 Season

  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Kacey Musgraves (Opener: Sugar + The Hi-Lows)
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Pride
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: From the Homeland
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Parsons Dance
  • Broadway and More: Brian Stokes Mitchell with the Winston-Salem Symphony
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Awadagin Pratt (piano and conductor) and Amber Carpenter (harp)
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: The Hunt
  • The David Grisman Sextet featuring special guests: Bryan Sutton Band
  • The Beach Boys
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Twenty Feet from Stardom
  • Lisa Fischer & Grand Baton
  • In/Visible Theatre: Without Words
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Valley of Saints
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Reaching for the Moon
  • Weicholz Global Film Series: Oranges and Sunshine

2014 Season

  • Ben Vereen
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert Little Big Town
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Magic of Mendelssohn
  • Global Film Series: The Rocket
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Pilobolus
  • July 4th Extravaganza! featuring Sophie B. Hawkins and BETTY at Westglow
  • Michael McDonald
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Sir James Galway (flute & guest conductor) and Shane Rathburn (alto saxophone)
  • Global Film Series: The Lunchbox
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty Showcase Concert
  • Triad Stage: All’s Well that Ends Well
  • Matthew Morrison with the Greensboro Symphony
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Nickel Creek
  • Global Film Series: Like Father, Like Son
  • Dance Theatre of Harlem
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Global Film Series: Jappeloup
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Global Film Series: The Jungle Book
  • National Youth Orchestra of the United States of America

2013 Season

  • July 4th Extravaganza! featuring Ben Vereen at Westglow
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert: The Band Perry (Opener: Chris Lane)
  • Independent Films from Around the World: The Other Son
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Part One
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Part Two
  • Triad Stage: Tennessee Playboy: A Redneck Romance
  • The Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Orchestra: Peter and the Wolf
  • Independent Films from Around the World: No
  • Idina Menzel with the Eastern Festival Orchestra
  • Family Film Night: E.T.
  • Boz Scaggs
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Andrè Watts (piano), Julian Schwarz (cello), Julian Rose (flute)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Part Three
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Part Four
  • Carolina Ballet: A Balanchine Celebration featuring Rubies
  • Independent Films from Around the World: 11 Flowers
  • An Evening with Lyle Lovett and His Acoustic Group
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Independent Films from Around the World: La Rafle
  • An Acoustic Evening with Mary Chapin Carpenter & Shawn Colvin with special guest Suzanne Vega

2012 Season

  • An Evening with Bill Cosby
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • An Appalachian Rendezvous with French Cinema: The Hedgehog
  • Fireworks at Westglow Resort & Dinner Concert with Nellie McKay
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Schubertiade
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Creedence Clearwater Revisited with special guest Lee Brice
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty Showcase Concert
  • An Appalachian Rendezvous with French Cinema: Women on the 6th Floor
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Divine Inspiration or Intelligent Design?
  • Carolina Ballet
  • Solas
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Alexander Toradze (piano) and Ben Robinette
  • An Appalachian Rendezvous with French Cinema: My Afternoons with Margueritte
  • Shipwrecked! An Entertainment – The Amazing Adventures of Louis De Rougemont (As Told by Himself)
  • Linda Eder: Songbirds: A Tribute to the Ladies
  • The Travelin” McCoury’s with Sierra Hull & Highway 111
  • The Eastern Music Festival Young Artists Orchestra with Greensboro Ballet: Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra & The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
  • An Appalachian Rendezvous with French Cinema: The Well-Digger’s Daughter
  • Chicago and The Doobie Brothers
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Brahms Piano Quintet: A Sublime Marriage of Piano and Strings
  • Fellow Traveler
  • Family Class Movie Night: Swiss Family Robinson

2011 Season

  • African Children’s Choir
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
  • Fireworks at Westglow Resort Dinner & Concert with BETTY
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Celebrating the Arts in Film: Mao’s Last Dancer
  • Our Broadway with Chita Rivera & Ben Vereen
  • Triad Stage: The Sunset Limited
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg (violin)
  • Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
  • k.d. lang & The Siss Boom Bang with The Belle Brigade
  • Movies on the Lawn: Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
  • Celebrating the Arts in Film: Séraphine
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Restless Journeys
  • Celebrating the Arts in Film: Mad Hot Ballroom
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Dierks Bentley
  • Rosen-Schaffel Competition for Young & Emerging Artists
  • Celebrating the Arts in Film: The Concert
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Mountain Heart with Tony Rice
  • The Manhattan Transfer

2010 Season

  • Triad Stage: Providence Gap
  • Janis Ian & Karla Bonoff: Songs of a Generation
  • Hayes School of Music Faculty Concert
  • Dinner, Show & Fireworks at Westglow Resort & Spa featuring Christine Lavin
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: Me and Orson Welles
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Pride of Place: Classical Folk Melodies
  • Amy Sedaris
  • The Golden Dragon Acrobats
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Barry Douglas (piano)
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: Vayna on 42nd Street
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Musical Mandala: From Bach to Barkauskas and Back
  • Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
  • Patti LuPone: The Gypsy in My Soul
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Tianwa Yang
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: Every Little Step
  • John Pizzarelli and Swing 7
  • Wild & Scenic Environmental Films: Fresh and The National Parks: This is America
  • Festival Celebration Concert: Blood, Sweat & Tears
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Classical Classics Muriel Rosen: In Memoriam
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: Under the Same Moon
  • Jazz Beneath the Stars at Westglow Resort & Spa with the Todd Wright Jazz Orchestra
  • Ralph Stanley & The Clinch Mountain Boys with Cherryholmes

2009 Season

  • Leahy
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: The Passing of the Torch
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: The Band’s Visit
  • Charlotte Symphony: That’s Amore!!
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: 1795-1825: What a Difference 30 Years Makes
  • Melissa Manchester
  • Dinner and a Show at Westglow Resort and Spa featuring Sophie B. Hawkins
  • Pilobolus
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: The Underground Orchestra
  • Patagonia’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
  • Buckwheat Zydeco: Lay Your Burden Down
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Sarah Chang (violin)
  • The Magic of Motion Pictures: Vitus
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Changing Keys
  • Paula Poundstone
  • Mike Cross
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with Bright Sheng (guest conductor) and Horacia Gutièrrez (piano)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Founders Night
  • Triad Stage: Oleanna
  • An Evening with Joan Baez
  • Triad Stage: (A reading of) Providence Gap
  • Kenny Loggins
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Reflections: Falling Bodies

2008 Season

  • Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Charlotte Symphony: Symphonic Dances
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Sacred Landscapes
  • Dinner and a Show at Westglow Resort and Spa featuring BETTY
  • Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Complete History of America (abridged)
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with David Lockington (conductor) and Midori (violin)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Nature Calls
  • Aspen Santa Fe Ballet
  • Patagonia’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
  • Phoebe Snow in Concert
  • Cherish the Ladies
  • Patagonia’s Wild & Scenic Environmental Film Festival
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Impressions of Ravel
  • Doug Varone and Dancers
  • An Evening with Judy Collins
  • Eastern Festival Orchestra with André Watts (piano)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The World Famous Count Basie Orchestra
  • Triad Stage: DOUBT (a parable)
  • The Charlie Daniels Band

2007 Season

  • Shen Wei Dance Arts
  • Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with JoAnn Falletta (guest conductor), Dame Evelyn Glennie (percussion), Jeffrey Multer (violin)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Beauty Born of Terror
  • The Mystical Arts of Tibet
  • Celebrating New Orleans with Ellis & Delfeayo Marsalis and Friends
  • Appalachian Young People’s Theatre presents Rapunzel by Max Bush
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Mark Morris Dance Group
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Schubertiade
  • Dinner and Jazz at Westglow Resort and Spa featuring Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers
  • Old Crow Medicine Show
  • Bruce Hornsby in Concert
  • Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Julia Fischer (violin)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Music Inspired by Art
  • North Carolina Symphony
  • Triad Stage: Brother Wolf (A New Play with Music)
  • Wynonna Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Picnicking and Dancing
  • NC Symphony Matinee with Cannon Music Camp

2006 Season

  • Doc Watson and The Sam Bush Band
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Marcus Belgrave Octet’s Tribute to Louis Armstrong
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Pilobolus
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Andreas Delfs (conductor) and guest pianist Andrè Watts
  • Works in Progress Series: The Kreutzer Sonata
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Limón Dance Company
  • Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
  • North Carolina Symphony with William Henry Curry (conductor & speaker) and Carolyn Kuan (conductor)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Gypsy Jazz Jam starring the John Jorgenson Quintet
  • Arlo Guthrie: The Guthrie Family Legacy Tour
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Gerard Schwarz (conductor) and guest artist Frederica von Stade
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Louisiana’s Hottest Music Buckwheat Zydeco
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert featuring John Michael Montgomery with Cowboy Crush

2005 Season

  • An Evening of Classic Lily Tomlin
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Glen Miller Orchestra
  • Works in Progress Series: The Place of Music: Samuel Beckett’s Music-Based Radio Plays
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • An Evening with Leahy
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with George Manahan (conductor) and Branford Marsalis (saxophone)
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Works in Progress Series: In this House
  • Poncho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band
  • North Carolina Symphony with William Henry Curry (conductor)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Dinner with The Russell Malone Quartet at Coffey’s Restaurant & Wine Bar
  • Ladysmith Black Mambazo
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with George Manahan (conductor) and Branford Marsalis (saxophone)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Garth Fagan Dance
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Legendary Lead Singers of The Temptations with the Sounds of The Supremes

2004 Season

  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Atlanta Ballet
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Robin and Linda Williams & Their Fine Group
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • P.D.Q. Bach/Peter Schickele: The Jekyll and Hyde Tour
  • Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  • APPropes! Sings American Music
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Gerhardt Zimmermann (conductor) and André Watts (piano)
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Works in Progress Series: From Page to Stage featuring staged readings of two new works When Sampson Met Delilah and In This House
  • North Carolina Symphony with William Henry Curry (conductor) and Michael Lewin (pianist)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Dinner with Wesla Whitfield
  • Doc Watson and The Dirk Powell Band
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Peter Serkin in Recital
  • Works in Progress Series: He Felt…
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert: Coasters, Drifters, Platters

2003 Season

  • Jazz at the Crossroads: Bill Charlap (piano) and Harry Allen (tenor saxophone)
  • In Recital: Sharon Isbin (guitar) and Gil Morgenstern (violin)
  • Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Christof Perick (guest conductor) and Twyla Robinson (soprano)
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Footworks Percussive Dance Ensemble: Incredible Feets
  • Beausoleil Avec Michael Doucet
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Mariam Cannon Hayes School of Music Presents: Two Musical Tales
  • Noche Flamenca
  • Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Gerard Schwarz (guest conductor) and Leila Josefowicz (violin)
  • Works in Progress Series: From Page to Stage: Journey into the Artist’s World a remarkable and intimate exploration into the creative process
  • Works in Progress Series: Flight staged reading of a new play by Garth Wingfield and Nick Corely (director)
  • Mark O’Connor (Violinist/Fiddler/Composer) and Natalie MacMaster
  • Mingus Big Band
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Parsons Dance Company
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble with guest artist William Wolfram
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert featuring Lee Ann Womack

2002 Season

  • In Recital: Gil Morgenstern (violin) with pianist Thomas Hoppe
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • In Recital: Bair Shagdaron (piano)
  • Mike Cross in Concert
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with David Lockington (conductor) and guest artist Elmar Oliveira (violin)
  • In Recital: Jerry Hadley (tenor) with pianist Brian Zeger
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble with guest artist Maria Bachmann (violin)
  • Works in Progress Series: The Art of the Fugitive: The Paradox of Paul Celan
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • The Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with George Manahan (conductor) and guest artist Sharon Isbin (guitar)
  • Works in Progress Series: Henry & Company
  • Cabaret at the Crossroads with Jerry Hadley and Friends
  • The World-Famous Glenn Miller Orchestra
  • Happiness conceived and performed by Laurie Anderson
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Cleo Parker Robinson Dance
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert featuring Diamond Rio

2001 Season

  • Duo Recital by Gil Morgenstern (violin) and Andrè-Michel Sćhub (piano)
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • School of Music Faculty Recital: Brian Bailey, Organ and Harpsichord
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Works In Progress Series: Guest from the Future, A Staged Reading of Music and Words
  • Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra: 100 Years of Jazz
  • Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Heiichiro Ohyama (conductor), Gary Hoffman (cello) and Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
  • Family Event: The World is the Storytellers Village with Milbre Burch
  • Ballet Hispanico
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Heritage Concert: Dirk Powell & Balfa Toujours
  • Philadanco (The Philadelphia Dance Company)
  • Family Event: The Junkman and Junk Music
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Works In Progress Series: Wolfpit by Glyn Maxwell
  • Recital by Dawn Upshaw, soprano
  • Jazz at the Tradewinds: Wesla Whitfield
  • Eastern Music Festival’s Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Kenneth Jean (conductor) and André-Michel Schub (piano)
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Baroque and its Influence: A Musical Conversation
  • David Grisman Quintet and Doc Watson
  • Recital by Garrick Ohlsson, Pianist
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert featuring Jo Dee Messina with special guests Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder

2000 Season

  • Duke Ellington Orchestra
  • North Carolina Symphony Pops
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Playwrights’ Project: Alcestis: A Work in Progress
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Parsons Dance Company
  • Recital by Douglas James, Guitar
  • North Carolina Symphony
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Annual Gala Celebration: An Evening on the Orient Express
  • Pinchas Zuckerman in Recital
  • Tales & Scales: Pandora’s Box
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Work in Progress Series: The Scrimshaw Violin
  • North Carolina Symphony
  • Arlo Guthrie in Concert
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • Jazz at the Tradewinds: Benny Green, Piano
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble with The Juilliard Dance Ensemble
  • Creating Original Opera: Public Performance
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert with Kenny Rogers!

1999 Season

  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: From the Baroque to the Classical Era
  • Centennial Event: Hisself by Romulus Linney
  • APPropos! Vocal Ensemble: The Songs of William G. Harbinson
  • Grace Bumbry in Recital
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: From the Classical to the Romantic Era
  • Tales & Scales Presents: The Enchanted Horn
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Jazz at the Tradewinds: The Peter Donovan Ensemble
  • Centennial Event! Day-Long Birthday Party and Outdoor Fireworks Concert featuring Mary Chapin Carpenter and Guest Artist Garrison Starr
  • Bruce Molsky & Big Hoedown
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: From the Early Modernism to the Postmodernism Era
  • Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • Celtic Music Celebration: Mary Black and Solas
  • Works in Progress Series: A reading of Euripides’ The Bacchae
  • North Carolina Symphony
  • North Carolina Symphony
  • Hal Halbrook in Mark Twain Tonight!
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Robert and Clara Schumann in their Own Words and Music
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Jazz at the Tradewinds: Nnenna Freelon & Her Quartet
  • Creating Original Opera: A Creative Camp for Children
  • Annual Gala Celebration! Tropical Breezes
  • Hubbard Street Dance Chicago

1998 Season

  • North Carolina Symphony Pops
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • School of Music 20th Century Recital
  • New Play Reading: A Night at the Algonquin (a comedy in two acts) by John Justice
  • Garth Fagan Dance
  • Big Band Spectacular: The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • David Holt: A One-Man Celebration of Stories and Songs
  • Direct from Broadway: An Evening of Jazz with Audra McDonald
  • The Smithsonian Presents American Popular Song: Eight Extraordinary Voices, and Another Op’nin, Another Show: The American Musical Theatre
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Ballet West
  • John McCutcheon
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • North Carolina Symphony Classical Concert with Zuill Bailey (cello)
  • The Inferno of Dante: A Staged Workshop of the Classic
  • North Carolina Symphony Young People’s Concert
  • André Watts Piano Recital
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble Family Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • North Carolina Symphony Classical Concert with Stephanie Chase (violin)
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Swing on a Star Annual Gala Celebration
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concerts with Willie Nelson

1997 Season

  • Annual Gala Celebration! featuring Guy Lombardo’s Royal Canadians
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • International Film Series: General Della Rovere
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Douglas James Guitar Recital: Myth and Mediterranean
  • Livingston Taylor
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Brubeck Brothers
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Twentieth Century Series: Politics and the Arts: Past, Present and Future
  • International Film Series: A Face in the Crowd
  • Enter the Actress starring Claire Bloom
  • NCNY Dance
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert: US Airways Night
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Farewell to the 20th Century
  • Twentieth Century Series: Music and the Dance
  • Sassy: a staged reading by Romulus Linney
  • Dave McKenna, Jazz Pianist
  • Appalachian Heritage Concert: Timmy Abell & Laura Boosinger
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Parsons Dance Company
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • International Film Series: The Marriage of Maria Braun
  • Atlanta Ballet

1996 Season

  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • APPropos!
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • International Film Series: Great Expectations
  • An Evening with Mike Cross
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Family Concert
  • Twentieth Century Series: Literature in Keyboard Music
  • Parsons Dance Company
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Jazz at The Pub with The Mike Longo Trio
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Duo Piano Recital with Allen Kindt and Rodney Reynerson
  • The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • International Film Series: The Philadelphia Story
  • Miami City Ballet
  • The North Carolina Symphony Outdoor Fireworks Concert: An Evening of Gershwin
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • NCNY Dance Group
  • Organ Recital with Tom Hazelton ad Scott Fappiano
  • International Film Series: Wild Strawberries
  • Preservation Hall Jazz Band

1995 Season

  • North Carolina Dance Theatre
  • Landis & Company Theatre of Magic
  • The Red Clay Ramblers with The Shady Grove Band
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Twentieth Century Series: Opera Through the Ages
  • The Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands
  • International Film Series: Doña Flor & Her Two Husbands (Brazil)
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Harmonies in Music and Dance
  • Mandara
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Two Rooms by Lee Blessing
  • Twentieth Century Series: The Piano Quartet in the 20th Century
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Life, Times, and Music of Robert and Clara Schumann
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • International Film Series: Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba)
  • Yomo Toro & the Music of Latin America
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Erick Hawkins Dance Company
  • International Film Series: Decline of the American Empire (Canada)
  • The Dirty Dozen Brass Band

1994 Season

  • The Paul Taylor Dance Company
  • Cinema Series: Grand Illusion – Jean Renoir
  • Traditions of Old Russia featuring the music and dance of the Massenkoff Russian Folk Festival
  • Traditions of Appalachia: Doc Watson, The Corklickers, Mary Greene, Robert Dotson, storytellers Ray and Orville Hicks
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Traditions of Asia featuring Music from China
  • Louisville Orchestra
  • 20th Century Series: East Meets West
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Cinema Series: La Strada – Federico Fellini
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • American Indian Dance Theatre
  • Theatre: Heathen Valley by Romulus Linney
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert
  • 20th Century Series: Music for Dance
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble & Smithsonian Institution: French Impressionism in Art & Music
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert
  • Carlota Santana Spanish Dance Company: An Evening of Flamenco Dance
  • Poncho Sanchez & His Latin Jazz Ensemble
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • 20th Century Series: An Evening with the Music of Aaron J. Kernis
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Ohio Ballet
  • Closing Concert & Fireworks Spectacular: Emmylou Harris and the Nash Ramblers

1993 Season

  • The Newport Jazz Festival All-Stars
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Magic of Mozart
  • The 20th Century Series: American Composers Fighting the Avant-Garde
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Era of Richard Strauss
  • The 20th Century Series: The Influence of Jazz on American Contemporary
  • The David Grisman Quartet and Mark O’Connor
  • The Louisville Orchestra
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble Recital
  • The North Carolina Symphony Pops Concert: The Great Outdoors
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Shirley Valentine starring Rebecca Koon
  • The 20th Century Series: Influences of Native American Music
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: An Evening with Tenor Robert White
  • Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Dallas Brass
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert: The Brother Boys, John Hartford, Nashville Bluegrass Band, Robin and Linda Williams

1992 Season

  • Rita Moreno in Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: French Toast
  • 20th Century Workshops: Music in Film
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Commonwealth of Riches (The Music of Russia)
  • Banu Gibson and The New Orleans Hot Jazz
  • The Louisville Orchestra
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Voice of America (Modernism Since World War I)
  • The Loonis McGlohon Trio
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Voices of the Other Europe (The Music of Eastern Europe)
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The Tune Mammals (The Stevens Family)
  • The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: An Evening of Music and Prose
  • An Evening of Dance with the Stars of the New York Ballet
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Potpourri
  • The Dallas Brass
  • Chet Atkins and His Band with Special Guest Doc Watson

1991 Season

  • The North Carolina Symphony with guest star William Warfield
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Celebration of Tradition
  • The North Carolina Symphony with the Cannon Music Camp Orchestra
  • Jazz at the Club featuring Cannon Camp Faculty Jazz Ensemble
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: From Classy Jazz to Jazzy Classics
  • The North Carolina Symphony with members of the Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • American Four-Play: conceived by Kent Lantaff
  • The North Carolina Symphony: Childrens Matinee Concert
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: The Road to Modernism (An Evening of Performance and Discussion)
  • Stars of the New York City Ballet with The North Carolina Symphony
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Vis-a-Vis Vienna
  • Thurber: Selected and Presented by William Windom
  • Jazz at the Club featuring Chinyere Nneena Freelon
  • Outdoor Fireworks Concert starring Judy Collins and her band (Joseph Joubert, Frank Vilardi, Lou Volpe) and featuring special guest Tom Chapin

1990 Season

  • Eleemosynary: a play by Lee Blessing
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Trio of Quartets
  • Arianna Goldina & Remy Loumbrozo: Gold Medalists Dranoff International Competition for Duo Pianists
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Dr. Tom & Seus Mime Theatre
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Quintet of Trios
  • Jazz at the Pub: Willie Thomas (trumpet), Frank Kimbrough (piano), Steve Barnhardt (percussion), Ron Brendle (bass)
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Cultural Exchange: The U.S. and the U.S.S.R.
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The North Carolina Symphony featuring guest star, Shirley Jones
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Jazz at the Pub: Faction Jazz Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Trio of Quintets
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with The North Carolina Symphony: Coppelia
  • The North Carolina Symphony with the Cannon Music Camp Orchestra
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with The North Carolina Symphony

1989 Season

  • An Evening with Clarence Darrow
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Tribute to Muriel and Arnold Rosen, Dedication of Rosen Concert Hall
  • Banjerman by William Stevens
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The North Carolina Symphony: Musical Pops and Jokes
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Classically Highland
  • The Piedmont Opera Theatre’s Production of Flower and Hawk
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Mike Cross with The North Carolina Symphony (Outdoor Fireworks Concert)
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Re-Creation of Frederic Choplin’s Historic Dbut at the Salle Pleyel in Paris
  • The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony

1988 Season

  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The North Carolina Symphony: Pops Goes The Symphony
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble Young People’s Concert: The Tune Mammals
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Old Romantics/New Romantics
  • The North Carolina Symphony: Hickory Choral Society and Appalachian Chorale
  • Crystal Gayle and the North Carolina Symphony with Music and Fireworks
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: Old Romantics/New Romantics continued
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony
  • Jazz Concert: The Duke’s Men…Ellington Alive!
  • Jack Aranson in The Subject was Roses
  • Barbershop Concert: Winston-Salem Auctioneer Chorus

1987 Season

  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Tribute to Maurice Ravel
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Gala Concert with The North Carolina Symphony and Roberta Peters, soprano
  • Robert Goulet with the North Carolina Symphony
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble Young People’ Concert
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Benefit Concert featuring The Loonis McGlohon Trio and Marlene Ver Planck
  • A Star Spangled Spectacular with Music and Fireworks and The North Carolina Symphony with The Cannon Music Camp Chorus and Honored Guest Governor James Martin
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony
  • Folkmoot, USA
  • North Carolina Dance Theater with the North Carolina Symphony
  • The Acting Company in the touring production premiere of Five By Tenn
  • Doc Watson Concert
  • Barbershop Concert: Winston-Salem Auctioneer Chorus

1986 Season

  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble: A Celebration of The Franz Liszt Centennial
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Gala Concert with The North Carolina Symphony, Roberta Peters, Irek & Chumbley
  • The North Carolina Symphony: All Gershwin
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Doc Severinsen Outdoor Pops Concert with The North Carolina Symphony
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • The North Carolina Symphony & The Cannon Camp Orchestra Combined Gala Concert

1985 Season

  • Appalachian Chamber Ensemble
  • Appalachian Dulcimer Workshop
  • “As You Like It”
  • Cannon Music Camp
  • Folkmoot USA
  • Mountain Music Concert
  • Mountaineer Dinner Theatre
  • The North Carolina Symphony
  • Noyes Capeheart Long
  • Smithsonian

1984 Season

  • Cannon Music Camp
  • Chopin Colony
  • North Carolina Symphony