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  • Family Pops Concert with the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra: “Spirit of Adventure”

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    Join the Appalachian Symphony Orchestra for a fun-filled, family-friendly concert of movie music! Come dressed as your favorite movie character and hear hits from films including Up, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Incredibles, Indiana Jones, E.T., and The Wizard of Oz. Dr. Alexandra Dee conducts the orchestra. Children, students, and adults are welcome - all […]

    Free

  • Resounding Resistance, Folk-Infused Classical Music, 1937-1945

    Rosen Concert Hall 813 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    Part 1: Listening Workshopsponsored by North Carolina HumanitiesThe workshop celebrates the 80th anniversary of Bartók's "Asheville Concerto." Appalachian State's Dr. Darci Gardner and Jacob Kopcienski will give TED-style talks on the piece. Then, Teddy Robi and Mimi Solomon, of UNC Chapel Hill's Department of Music, will demonstrate their interpretations of it. Part 2: Concertsponsored by […]

  • Author Dave Isay

    Keynote Address: An Evening with Author Dave Isay

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The Common Reading Program at Appalachian State University is delighted to offer Callings: The Purpose and Passion of Work, from legendary American radio producer and documentarian Dave Isay, as the university's common reading book for the 2025-2026 academic year. In 1994 Isay founded Sound Portraits Productions, from which in 2003 he launched StoryCorps, an oral history […]

    Free
  • Symphony Band and Wind Ensemble

    Appalachian Symphony Band and Appalachian Wind Ensemble: “Around the World”

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The Appalachian Symphony Band and Appalachian Wind Ensemble present a program of works in homage to history, culture, and adventure from around the world! Among the pieces are Julie Giroux’s KHAN, which depicts Genghis Khan and his army on the move, and Percy Grainger's Lincolnshire Posy, a bunch of “musical wildflowers” based on folksongs collected in Lincolnshire, […]

    Free
  • First Year Showcase: Magic Carpet Ride
    She Kills Monsters

    Magic Carpet Ride

    IG Greer Studio Theatre 401 Academy Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The First Year Showcase is a short, immersive, welcoming process for incoming first year and transfer students. Working with upper-level students and faculty mentors, students create a collaborative, site-specific promenade performance. Participants work together to frame how we look at architecture and our environment through movement and performance. The 2026 performance, Magic Carpet Ride, will specifically […]

  • APPs presents Pvris, Sept. 25 at 8pm

    PVRIS

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    PVRIS (pronounced “Paris”) burst onto the scene blending haunting atmospheres with razor-sharp hooks, led by the powerhouse that is Lynn Gunn. Hailing from Massachusetts, they quickly made waves with their genre-blurring sound — melding rock, synthpop, and dark electronica into anthems built for both the club and the mosh pit. Debut album White Noise became […]

  • First Year Showcase: Magic Carpet Ride
    She Kills Monsters

    Magic Carpet Ride

    IG Greer Studio Theatre 401 Academy Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The First Year Showcase is a short, immersive, welcoming process for incoming first year and transfer students. Working with upper-level students and faculty mentors, students create a collaborative, site-specific promenade performance. Participants work together to frame how we look at architecture and our environment through movement and performance. The 2026 performance, Magic Carpet Ride, will specifically […]

  • First Year Showcase: Magic Carpet Ride
    She Kills Monsters

    Magic Carpet Ride

    IG Greer Studio Theatre 401 Academy Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The First Year Showcase is a short, immersive, welcoming process for incoming first year and transfer students. Working with upper-level students and faculty mentors, students create a collaborative, site-specific promenade performance. Participants work together to frame how we look at architecture and our environment through movement and performance. The 2026 performance, Magic Carpet Ride, will specifically […]

  • Appalachian Symphony Orchestra

    Appalachian Symphony Orchestra: “Fire”

    Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts 733 Rivers Street, Boone, NC, United States

    The Appalachian Symphony Orchestra starts the year off with fire, performing Stravinsky's breathtakingly colorful “The Firebird Suite,” Marquez’s joyous “Conga del fuego nuevo,” and the world premiere of Hayes School of Music alumna Caroline Goforth’s “Springtime in the Mountains,” winner of the 2025 HSOM Composition Competition. The ASO will also be joined by HSOM violin […]

    Free

  • Life Sucks. by Aaron Posner event image
    She Kills Monsters

    Life Sucks.

    Valborg Theatre 480 Howard Street, Boone, NC, United States

    Adapted by Aaron Posner from Anton Checkhov’s Uncle Vanya Directed by Elizabeth Parks This is a play about love and longing. In this contemporary reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong frenemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions, the state of the world, and each other. Over drinks, fights, […]

  • Life Sucks. by Aaron Posner event image
    She Kills Monsters

    Life Sucks.

    Valborg Theatre 480 Howard Street, Boone, NC, United States

    Adapted by Aaron Posner from Anton Checkhov’s Uncle VanyaDirected by Elizabeth ParksThis is a play about love and longing. In this contemporary reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong frenemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions, the state of the world, and each other. Over drinks, fights, and moments […]

  • Life Sucks. by Aaron Posner event image
    She Kills Monsters

    Life Sucks.

    Valborg Theatre 480 Howard Street, Boone, NC, United States

    Adapted by Aaron Posner from Anton Checkhov’s Uncle VanyaDirected by Elizabeth ParksThis is a play about love and longing. In this contemporary reworking of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a group of old friends, ex-lovers, estranged in-laws, and lifelong frenemies gather to grapple with life’s thorniest questions, the state of the world, and each other. Over drinks, fights, and moments […]