After two highly successful seasons, the Carolina Summer Music Festival will be returning for its third series of engaging concerts in Winston-Salem. From August 14 to 28 this summer, the 2010 Festival will feature more than twenty-five Triad musicians in seven unique concert programs of jazz, classical and contemporary chamber music.

New to this season will be an interactive morning jazz concert for the whole family at the Old Salem Visitor Center with vocalist Martha Bassett and David Ford, host and producer of WFDD’s “Triad Arts Up Close.” Later that evening, acclaimed Triad jazz players will continue the Great American Songbook tradition of previous seasons by performing the work of Johnny Mercer, who wrote the lyrics to such favorites as "Moon River."

For adventurous listeners, the Carolina Summer Music Festival will present a cutting edge program of new music by Dutch composer JacobTV in the casual setting of Krankies at the Werehouse.

The Festival returns to the intimate settings of the Kuhn Studio Gallery and the Reynolda House Museum of American Art for concerts of Chopin and other romantic composers featuring artists such as Glenn Siebert, Peter Kairoff, and Barbara Lister-Sink. A rousing dinner concert with the Festival Brass will be featured at the new Bernardin’s Restaurant at the historic Zevely House on 4th Street. And to end the season, the Carolina Summer Music Festival will celebrate musical jokes and merriment at Old Salem.

We need your support to help make this year’s Festival a success. We are an organization that is run by volunteers, with no paid staff. We are currently striving to raise $10,000 to make this year’s fundraising goal. Your contribution makes a difference.  Please make a contribution through our secure PayPal account.

With its diversity of musical styles and excellent musicians, the 2010 Carolina Summer Music Festival again promises to bring beautiful and exciting music to Winston-Salem this August.

Sincerely,

Jacqui Carrasco, Joe Mount, Elizabeth Ransom
Co-artistic directors