Shenandoah Valley Music Festival
Shenandoah Valley Music Festival is a series of live-concert performances that take place over July, August and September in Orkney Springs, Virginia. Dating back to 1963, the Festival has a long history of bringing quality music to the Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley Music Festival began when a group of volunteers began sponsoring public symphony and chamber music concerts each summer. More recently, the Festival has expanded to include more eclectic acts from a variety of genres including bluegrass, soul, country, folk, rock, world and big band.[1]
The Festival is run by a Board of Directors and a small, full-time staff. Dennis Lynch currently serves as the Festival's Executive Director.[2] Hundreds of local volunteers from the Shenandoah Valley help to put on the concerts every year and the Festival has an active partnership with the Title I program of the Shenandoah County Public School System. This partnership helps to make select family performances free for children and adults. General operating support funding is received from the Virginia Commission for the Arts.[3]
Venue
The Shenandoah Valley Music Festival, is held in the secluded town of Orkney Springs, Virginia. A rustic, open-air pavilion on the grounds of a historic mineral springs spa and resort hotel, is home to the Festival's summer concert series. Formally known as the Orkney Springs Hotel, it is now owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia and now called the Shrine Mont Camp and Conference Center. The Hotel, which has undergone recent renovations, continues to attract a variety of visitors and Festival audiences.[4]
2015 summer line-up
Friday, July 17 at 8 p.m.
- Toad the Wet Sprocket and Smash Mouth
Saturday, July 18 at 6 p.m.
- Hot Strings and Cool Breezes Roots MiniFest featuring Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Friday, July 24 at 8 p.m.
- Fairfax Symphony Orchestra : "She Did It Her Way"
Saturday, July 25 at 8 p.m.
- Jackie Evancho
Thursday, August 6 at 6 p.m.
- United States Air Force Strings
Friday, August 7 at 8 p.m.
- The Letterman
Saturday, August 8 at 6 p.m.
- Gimme Abbey
Saturday, September 5 at 7 p.m.
- The Oak Ridge Boys
Sunday, September 6 at 5 p.m.
- Bluegrass MiniFest featuring Seldom Scene
References
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/20100527055811/http://www.musicfest.org:80/. Archived from the original on May 27, 2010. Retrieved June 21, 2010. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ https://web.archive.org/20110714215951/http://www.nvdaily.com/lifestyle/2010/05/music_festivals_cue_the_music-mobile.html. Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved June 21, 2010. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ (PDF) https://web.archive.org/20080211134703/http://www.arts.virginia.gov/grants/08AWARDS.pdf. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 11, 2008. Retrieved June 21, 2010. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "About Us". Shrine Mont. Retrieved 2015-03-03.