Wintergreen Summer Music Festival is set to kick off in July at Wintergreen Resort.
Slated to begin July 7, more than 170 events will carry the festival’s theme, “Old Word, New World – Spain, France, Italy and the Americas – A Journey of Discovery,” through four weeks of music concerts, cooking classes, seminars, children’s activities, a 5K run, a 25-hour piano marathon and more.
“This will be our most ambitious Summer Music Festival yet,” Larry Alan Smith, Artistic and Executive Director of Wintergreen Performing Arts said.
In 2007, roughly 4,000 people attended the festival’s 75 events, up from 37 events in 2006.
“It’s a week longer and richer in events,” Don Burland, Treasurer of Wintergreen Performing Arts said about this year’s festival compared to last year’s. “We are well on our way to becoming a destination festival that will draw people to Nelson County and Wintergreen mountain.”
Each week of the festival will feature different countries:
- Spain Week will be July 7 –13,
- France Week will be July 14-20,
- Italy Week will be July 21-27 and the
- Americas Week will be July 28 – August 3.
“A lot of (the events) are an elaboration of what was successful last year,” Burland said.
For Spain Week, Ambassador Inocencio F. Arias, the former Spanish Ambassador to the United Nations, will open the festival with a seminar on July 7 at 9:30 a.m. at Wintergreen Nature Foundation.
France Week is scheduled to begin on Bastille Day, with a 25-hour piano marathon starting July 13 at DelFosse Vineyards and Winery in Faber.
Italy Week will feature an Italian Pops Concert on July 23 at 7:30 p.m. at the John D. Evans Center and the Americas Week will have three concerts featuring jazz pianist and composer Kirk Nurock.
For more information visit www.wintergreenperformingarts.org or call 866-WTG-MUSIC.
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