News and Media Resources
For information about sharing An Appalachian Summer Festival events through your outlet or publication, please contact:
Allison West
Director of Marketing & Public Relations, Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
828-262-2931
westal1@appstate.edu
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Advertising opportunities
The festival brings close to 27,000 people each July who enjoy this multi-disciplinary arts festival. People from all over the southeast travel to the High Country to experience cool summer temperatures and see world-class entertainment. Your business has the opportunity to partner with the festival and reach an audience of local community members and visitors to the area by advertising in our playbill— a 100-page souvenir book distributed to festival audiences throughout the season that highlights each performance during the summer festival.
Contracts can be emailed, faxed (828-262-2848) or mailed to ASU Box 32045, Boone, NC 28608.
For questions please contact Allison West, Director of Marketing & Public Relations, at westal1@appstate.edu or 828-262-6084, ext. 107.
Press quotes
“Appalachian State University’s ambitious An Appalachian Summer Festival brings to town a month-long whirlwind of top-notch classical, jazz and folk performers, plus ballet, dance, drama and visual arts. Call it high culture in the high country, and look for plenty of options to choose among…”
– Southern Living Magazine
“This annual arts festival features something for everyone with special programs focusing on family entertainment, the classics, and future stars.”
– US Airways Magazine
“The hills around Boone, North Carolina are enlivened during July with the sounds of An Appalachian Summer Festival.”
– Atlanta Journal Constitution
“In summer, the university’s annual Appalachian Summer Festival offers a month of dance and theatre, symphony and jazz concerts, workshops and art exhibits.”
– The New York Times
“The festival is Appalachian State University’s cultural commitment to bring top quality music, dance, theatre and visual arts to its corner of the world.”
– Blue Ridge Country Magazine
“An Appalachian Summer Festival is finally upon us, and with it comes the sounds, sights and fabulous spectacles that make the High Country such a perfect place to be during the summer.”
– The Mountain Times