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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

[ 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.

Halpert Biennial '09 Winners Announced

[ 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

[ 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.

[ "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."

"An open letter to my fellow supporters..."

[ "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.

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival Announces New Model of Artistic Leadership ]: An Appalachian Summer Festival has adopted a new model for artistic direction, designed to fulfill its mission, vision, and long-range goals.

[ Appalachian Summer Festival Tribute Gifts: A Meaningful Way to Honor or Remember a Family Member or Friend ]: Tribute gifts to An Appalachian Summer Festival, including memorial gifts and honoraria, are meaningful ways to recognize someone on a special occasion, express sympathy to friends or loved ones who have experienced the loss of a family member, or to memorialize someone for whom the arts were highly valued.

[ Top Ten Reasons to Give to An Appalachian Summer Festival ]: We're "counting down" just a few reasons why giving to the arts is so important. We know you have your own reasons, and we invite you to share them with us!

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival: Keys to Success ]: The success of events such as An Appalachian Summer Festival involves meeting and exceeding goals on several important fronts: artistic, marketing, and financial, and thanks to the efforts of so many groups who came together to make the festival possible, it achieved success on each of those fronts.

[ An Appalachian Summer Festival Wins Economic Development Award ]: In early August 2004, An Appalachian Summer Festival was presented with the Alfred Adams Award for Economic Development by the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce, an annual award bestowed on organizations who make a substantial contribution to the economic growth and development of our region.

2009 major corporate sponsorship provided by:

Westglow Resort & Spa

SkyBest Communications, Inc.

Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation

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An Appalachian Summer Festival is a production of the Appalachian State University Office of Arts & Cultural Programs. An Appalachian Summer Festival receives support from the North Carolina Arts Council - an agency funded by the State of North Carolina - and the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art.

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