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Experience Art at a Higher Altitude with the 2010 season of An Appalachian Summer Festival July 1 – 31, 2010

An Appalachian Summer Festival announces its tentative 2010 schedule.

  • Amy Sedaris
  • Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra with Barry Douglas (piano) and Tianwa Yang (violin)
  • Lar Lubovitch Dance
  • Patti LuPone
  • Broyhill Chamber Ensemble
  • Janis Ian and Karla Bonoff
  • Golden Dragon Acrobats
  • Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
  • John Pizzarelli
  • The Wild & Scenic Film Festival
  • Ralph Stanley and Cherryholmes
  • Blood, Sweat & Tears with Chuck Negron

Plus dynamic visual arts exhibitions, lectures, educational events, arts workshops for children and adults and more!

Full schedule available soon. For more information, call (800) 841-2787.

2009 Season Wrap-up
Three sellouts and a total festival attendance of 26,000 people are just a couple of the highlights of the 2009 season. The Festival would also like to extend thanks to all of the people, businesses and organizations that helped us in 2009.
What the festival means to me..."
The energy and excitement builds from the moment the festival starts to be promoted and I can't wait to see what is being offered."
Halpert Biennial '09 Winners Announced
On behalf of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, An Appalachian Summer Festival and Halpert Biennial '09 juror Jeffrey Gove, we congratulate Craig Fisher from Toledo, OH; Jeremiah Ariaz from Baton Rouge, LA; and Ivan Fortushniak from Indiana, PA.
Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition partners with the Downtown Boone Development Association (DBDA) Public Art Program
Partnership to offer two additional sculptors a chance to participant in the Rosen program with the Community Choice Award.
An open letter to my fellow supporters..."
Ron Redmon, an Appalachian Summer Festival supporter, writes about the arts and their importance in trying economic times. Our finances will recover in due course, for that is the nature of all things cyclical. The light and joy that only music, dance, and drama can provide is needed now, more than ever... and they depend on us."
An Appalachian Summer Festival 2009 Season Schedule
2009 season highlights include Kenny Loggins; Mike Cross; Melissa Manchester; Buckwheat Zydeco; Joan Baez; Leahy; Paula Poundstone; Pilobolus Dance; Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Pops; Sophie B. Hawkins; The Broyhill Chamber Ensemble; Paul Taylor Dance Company; Triad Stage; Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra and more.
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  • Appalachian Faculty Biennial
  • Collecting Worlds: Suzanna Bryan
  • In the Shadow of the Volcanoes: Contemporary Art from the Mountains of Central Mexico
  • Bridges to Communication:  New Works by Bill Brown