Concert Program

Classical Music in the Mountains June 6 - 8, 2014 Floyd, VA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Officers Jay Durner President

Barbara von Claparede Vice President David Wiley Sr Secretary Classical Music in the Mountains Jodie Norton Treasurer Directors Jennifer Brooke June 6 - 8, 2014 Sara Dalton Ed Fallon Sam Kephart Floyd, Virginia Lorrie Mann Natasha Shishkevish Sandra Smith Vickie Sowers Serving New River Valley and neighboring communities, Clemens von Claparede Roanoke Valley, and communities along the Blue Ridge Randall Wells Mary Wiley Ex officio David Stewart Wiley Artistic Director and Conductor David Stewart Wiley Artistic Director Meg Carter Executive Director Meg Carter Executive Director

Advisory Group Jay Durner Board President Kamala Bauers

Donia Eley Linda Fallon Past Board President Jack Wall Website: VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org

VBRMF, PO Box 757, Floyd, VA 24091 540.597.6314 • [email protected] • VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org Floyd Community Center for the Arts, Inc. dba The Jacksonville Center is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and serves as the nonprofit sponsor for Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival. Tax ID# 54-1750001 Donations to VBRMF are tax deductible as allowed by law.

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Help Make Your Classical Music Festival Successful and Sustainable for Years To Come! • Invite your friends and colleagues to our remaining Concerts. • Make a Tax-deductible Donation to VBRMF • Patronize and Thank Our Generous Business Sponsors • Enjoy Floyd! • Mark Your Calendar – to come back next year: May 27 – June 7, 2015 for “Ode to Joy in the Mountains” The 12 day Festival will include major symphonic works, chamber music, and many delightful informal events throughout the community – presented by a full symphony of professional musicians and pre-professional Fellows, led by Maestro Wiley. Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony, two Concerto Nights with Academy Fellows, plus much more. – Once again the Festival will feature an Academy of highly talented and aspiring pre-professional instrumentalists who study and perform with highly skilled professional musicians – leading to a wide array of exciting musical offerings for the public in a variety of Floyd area venues. – The Festival seeks to broaden our region’s musical richness and make classical music and a blend of regional styles affordable and available in our community – in a relaxed, informal atmosphere.

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Concert Information & Etiquette for Everyone’s Enjoyment Kindly turn off Cell Phones and Alarms. Latecomers will be seated between musical selections at the discretion of the ushers. Audio and Video recording are not allowed without prior permission. Still pictures are permitted discreetly during applause, no flash ever. Children age 6 and older accompanied by an adult are welcome at all performances. Children of all ages are welcome at rehearsals and family concerts. We are happy you are here with us – enjoy the performance and please introduce yourselves to those around you before and after the event. Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival

Saturday, June 7 10:30 – 11:30 am EcoVillage-Celebration Hall

Family Concert

The Classical Connection: From Baroque to Billy Joel

Julee Hickcox, flute John Smith, bass Al Wojtera, percussion David Stewart Wiley, piano and host

We explore the roots of recorded popular hits – from Baroque, Classical, and Ragtime to Billy Joel and other hit-makers – likely including:

Mozart/Arr. Wiley Funky Figaro

Scott Joplin Three Short Rags: Weeping Willow, Cascades, Strenuous Life

Wiley 5-Legged Rag (2014) [premiere]

Jethro Tull Bouree [from J.S. Bach Bouree]

Billy Joel Classical Invention (2001)

Peter De Rose The Lamp is Low (1939) [from Ravel’s Pavane]

Apollo 100 Joy (1972) [from Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring]

Forrest/Wright Stranger in Paradise (1953) [from Borodin’s Polovetsian Dances]

Procol Harem A Whiter Shade of Pale (1967) [from Bach’s Air on a G String]

Bolling Baroque & Blue & Irlandaise [from Bach & Handel]

Raymond Scott In an 18th Century Drawing Room (1930) [from Haydn’s Piano Concerto in C]

The Program will last an hour.

Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival

Saturday, June 7 6:30 pm EcoVillage-Celebration Hall & Lake Pavilion

“Gala Concert” Virtuosi Chamber Strings, David Stewart Wiley, Conductor Akemi Takayama, Violin Jeff Midkiff, Composer and Mandolin Blacksburg Community Band, Jay Durner, Music Director

Part 1: Celebration Hall -- Virtuosi Chamber Strings

Karl Jenkins Palladio (The DeBeers “Diamond” music)

Antonio Vivaldi “Spring” Concerto from The Four Seasons Akemi Takayama and Ensemble

Jeff Midkiff Sneak Preview excerpt from Double Concerto for Mandolin & Violin Akemi Takayama, Jeff Midkiff, and Ensemble

Jeff Midkiff Run For Your Life [2014, Premiere] Akemi Takayama, Jeff Midkiff, and Ensemble

Astor Piazzolla Primavera Portena (“Spring”) from The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires Akemi Takayama and Ensemble

Akemi Takayama, violin Bernard DiGregorio, viola Jeff Midkiff, composer/mandolin Kelley Mikkelsen, cello Elise Blake, violin John Smith, bass Geronimo Oyenard, violin Tracy Cowden, piano

Intermission

Part II: Outside at Adjacent Lake Pavilion – Blacksburg Community Band

“Sunset Serenade” Jay Durner, Conductor Selections to be announced from the podium

Reception, Meet the Artists Following

The Program will last about an hour and forty five minutes. Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival

Sunday, June 8 3 pm Floyd EcoVillage-Celebration Hall

“Art and Music in the Mountains” Festival Virtuosi, David Stewart Wiley, Conductor Akemi Takayama, Concertmaster

Mozart Overture to The Marriage of Figaro

Beethoven Allegro from Octet

Martinu The Kitchen Review: A Musical Play with Ragtime, Tango, and The Kitchen Sink Prologue, Introduction, Dances of the Utensils, Tango, Charleston, Finale (Ragtime)

Intermission

Dvorak Serenade for Winds and Strings in D Major, Op. 44 1. Moderately, March-like 2. Minuet & Trio 3. Pastorale – In Nature’s Realm 4. Finale: Allegro Molto, March Reprise, Coda (Presto)

The Program will last about an hour and thirty minutes.

Art by area students, inspired by the music, will be on display at all the concerts.

Akemi Takayama, violin Kelley Mikkelsen, cello John Smith, bass Bill Parrish, oboe Julee Hickcox, flute Carmen Eby, clarinet Jeff Midkiff, clarinet Ryan Romine, bassoon Carol Bernstorf, bassoon Wally Easter, horn Kristen Fowler, Horn Fellow Wallace Easter III, Horn Fellow Tracy Cowden, piano Neville, Michael McDonald, Art Garfunkel, the Pointer Sisters, Ben Background of Principal Vereen, Kool & the Gang, Cirque, Jeans n’ Classics, Boz Skaggs, Billy Ocean, K.C. & the Sunshine Band, The Moscow Ballet, and Sounds Musicians of Blackness. Wiley website: www.davidstewartwiley.com

David Stewart Wiley, Artistic Director & Conductor of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival, serves concurrently as Akemi Takayama, Concertmaster, appears Music Director & Conductor of New York’s Long Island internationally as a soloist and chamber music collaborator and Philharmonic and Virginia’s Roanoke Symphony Orchestra has recently collaborated with famed Irish pianist, John O'Conor. (RSO.com). Active as a guest conductor, pianist, arranger and film She is an associate professor at the Shenandoah University composer, Wiley has guest conducted acclaimed symphonies Conservatory of Music and concertmaster of both the Roanoke including Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Milwaukee, Symphony Orchestra and The Williamsburg Symphonia in Virginia. Indianapolis, Minnesota, Saint Louis, Atlanta, Oregon, Honolulu, In the fall of 2012 Takayama also served as a faculty member at and Utah, among many others in 35 U.S. states. Wiley’s music the Oberlin Conservatory. Acclaimed by Isaac Stern as “a true career has taken him to dozens of countries in Europe, Asia, and musician,” she was invited to the Marlboro Music Festival and has Africa. He has previously served as Assistant Conductor of the served on the faculties of the Chautauqua Institute in New York, Minnesota Orchestra and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. the Idyllwild School for the Arts in California, the Brevard Music Among his diverse activities, he created and leads an acclaimed Center in North Carolina, Shenandoah Performs in Virginia and at event with business executives and musicians together on stage Virginia Tech. Takayama also enjoys her recent associations with titled “Conducting Change” which helps executives to model New Orchestra of Washington and Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music leadership skills in a fun and engaging atmosphere. Festival. She has served as an adjudicator for Virginia ASTA Solo Competition, The Virginia Music Teachers’ Association and David’s U.S. Summer Music Festival conducting appearances National Music Teachers' Association and currently serves as a include Aspen, Brevard, The Music Academy of the West, member of the Collegiate Advisory of Virginia String Teacher's Tanglewood, Park City, Minnesota Orchestra Summerfest, Association. She was also a violinist in the recently retired Indianapolis Symphony on the Prairie, and many others. From Audubon Quartet, of which she was a member for fourteen years. 1999 until 2006, Wiley was the Artistic Director & Conductor of the Wintergreen Summer Music Festival, where he founded the Born to musical parents in Tokyo, Japan, Takayama began her Festival Orchestra and Academy. His seven years at Wintergreen as violin studies with her mother at the age of three. Her professional artistic director and conductor were a time of remarkable artistic violin career began in Japan at the age of 15. She has performed and financial growth for WPA, where he programmed and led over throughout Japan, France, and the U.S., including appearances 100 performances of symphony, jazz, chamber music, and with the Shinsei-Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, the Toho School of educational concerts. Music Orchestra, and on a "FM Recital" broadcast throughout Japan on NHK Radio. She also has performed with the Tokyo Wiley's CDs include an album of French cello concerti with Zuill Metropolitan Orchestra, the Yomiuri Philharmonic Orchestra, Bailey & the Roanoke Symphony on Delos International, Music at Gretna, and with the New World Symphony Orchestra. Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 "Choral", American Piano Concertos Her solo performances in the U.S. have included radio and TV with Norman Krieger on Artisie 4, "David Wiley & Friends: Classical appearances in the greater Cleveland area and with the Cleveland Jazz", "American Trumpet Concertos" with the Slovak Radio Institute of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Grand Junction Symphony and Paul Neebe, and violin/piano duo CD "Preludes & Orchestra, and the University of Wyoming Symphony Lullabies" with Akemi Takayama. In 2013 he released a solo piano Orchestra and Chamber Orchestra. CD of his music “Full Circle” and just released his brand new 2014 solo release “Piano Bells” – both now available this weekend. Akemi Takayama's recent solo performances with orchestras include Daugherty’s Fire and Blood and Ladder to the Moon, Wiley holds a Doctor and Master of Music in Conducting from Mendelssohn's Double Concerto, Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, Pärt’s Indiana University, a degree in Piano Performance with honors Fratres, Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, and Brahms’s Double from the New England Conservatory of Music, and a degree in Concerto for violin and cello, Mozart’s Violin Concerto, Bach Religion, summa cum laude, from Tufts University. Wiley was Concerto, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and Roskott's Violin honored by the NAACP as Citizen of the Year in the Arts, and he is Concerto. During her graduate studies, Akemi was a teaching a recipient of the Perry F. Kendig Prize for service to the arts as assistant to the renowned Donald Weilerstein at the Cleveland well as being honored as a Paul Harris fellow from Rotary Institute of Music, where she earned both an Artist Diploma and a International. Master of Music degree. Previously, she studied with Toshiya Eto As a solo pianist, Wiley has performed with numerous major and Ryosaku Kubota at the renowned Toho School of Music in orchestras throughout the United States including Minnesota, Tokyo, where she earned her bachelor degree in music Indianapolis, Oregon, Honolulu, Wheeling, and at the Aspen, Garth performance. She also studied with Brian Hanly at the University of Newel, Wintergreen, and Prince Albert (Hawaii) summer festivals. Wyoming where she earned her professional studies degree. He has also appeared as a jazz pianist in Boston's Symphony Hall Ms. Takayama plays a J.B. Ceruti violin from Cremona, Italy, made and in recital appearances throughout the U.S. as well as in China, in 1805. Russia, Romania, Hungary, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, and Bulgaria. Wiley collaborates with a diversity of well-known solo artists and Jeff Midkiff, Mandolin and Composer -- “I feel at home groups in the Classical and Pops world, including Billy Joel, Sir in the Blue Ridge Mountains playing fiddle tunes,” Jeff Midkiff James Galway, Jessye Norman, Midori, Lynn Harrell, John Williams, says, “but then again, I feel at home in a professional orchestra as Andre Watts, Jon Nakamatsu, Eiji Oue, Norman Krieger, Zuill well.” A mandolinist and fiddler raised on Bluegrass and a Bailey, Giora Schmidt, Christian Zacharias, Orly Shaham, professional clarinetist, Jeff Midkiff is an outstanding musician who Bernadette Peters, Bruce Hornsby, Jennifer Holliday, Marvin Hamlisch, Mercedes Ellington, Lou Rawls, Doc Severinsen, Aaron feels comfortable in more than one setting—musically and Concerto for Violin and Mandolin will premiere with the Roanoke personally. Symphony Orchestra in Roanoke and Blacksburg from November 9-11, 2014. Jeff grew up where Bluegrass and traditional string band music thrived. Given his first mandolin at the age of 7 by a neighbor (Sherman Poff, to whose memory Partners In Time is dedicated), of the he moved quickly into the world of fiddlers’ conventions and Jay Durner, Music Director and Conductor Blacksburg Community Band, began his music evolution from contests, winning his first mandolin competition before reaching performer to teacher, director, and conductor at an early age. His his teens. lifelong involvement within multiple music disciplines has allowed As he grew older, he added the fiddle to his instrumental arsenal him to bring his understanding of music and his leadership and joined the New Grass Revue—yet at the same time, he took experience to a variety of musical venues in the region. Currently, up the clarinet and began to perform with his high school’s he also serves as an instrumental music teacher at Floyd County symphonic band. Even as he was immersing himself in the High School, and as president of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music classical repertoire, he continued to gain attention as a mandolin Festival Board of Directors. and fiddle player. Originally from Allentown, Pennsylvania, Durner began his By the time he graduated he had his sights firmly set on a musical professional career teaching high school music in New Jersey. This career, and in 1981 Midkiff began studies at Virginia Tech, was followed by several years of teaching at the college level, but eventually earning a degree in music education and performance. ultimately Durner returned to the high school arena where he Yet even as he was immersing himself in the classical repertoire, directed award winning concert and jazz bands, as well as a he continued to gain attention as a mandolin and fiddle player championship high school marching band. with the McPeak Brothers, a widely respected bluegrass group Paralleling Durner’s public school career was his 30 year tenure as with whom he made his first serious recording in 1982 (five music director and conductor of The Pioneer Band of Allentown. selections from that album are included on Rebel Records’ McPeak During that time, he oversaw the production of several recordings, Brothers: Classic Bluegrass CD). numerous exchange concerts with other community bands, and In 1983 he joined the Lonesome River Band, which would multiple performance tours of Germany. Each year the band eventually become one of bluegrass’s most acclaimed groups. For performed approximately 35 concerts in venues ranging from local the next five years, as he completed his education and started parks and concert halls to the Ellipse at the White House in working as a music instructor, he performed with the LRB, Washington D.C. recording two albums with the group, including its self-titled Rebel Durner has also been active in the area of Music Theater. He has Records debut in 1987. Shortly after that, he enrolled in graduate produced and/or directed over thirty full scale musical productions school at Northern Illinois University, earning his Master’s degree at the high school level and served as music director for in clarinet at the end of the decade—but though the move meant Community Theater and the Municipal Opera Company in leaving the LRB, he continued to perform with an Illinois bluegrass Allentown, PA. He has been a guest conductor for a variety of band, Bluegrass Express. honor bands, a trombone clinician, and an adjudicator for concert, During the early part of the 1990s, Jeff lived in Florida and jazz, and marching bands. performed clarinet with the Naples Philharmonic and later moved Since moving to Virginia, Durner has continued to be active as a to northern Virginia area to be an orchestra director in the Fairfax guest conductor, working with the Winds of the Blue Ridge County schools. “I went a good five years without opening my Concert Band, and the Highty-Tighties Marching Band at Virginia mandolin case,” he notes, “and as a full-time teacher in northern Tech. He has also been the Music Director for Blacksburg’s Virginia, I wasn’t playing much clarinet, either.” An appearance Summer Musical Enterprise productions of The Pajama Game, with the Annapolis Chamber Orchestra at Carnegie Hall Peter Pan, and Cinderella. reawakened his passion for the latter, and in 1995 he moved to the Chicago area to revive his performance career — on the Throughout his career, Durner has had wonderful opportunities to clarinet only, he thought, but ultimately on the mandolin and study with some of the best conductors the band world has to fiddle, too. Busy as a clarinetist with area ensembles and as a offer, including Dr. Frederick Fennell, John Paynter, Anthony youth orchestra conductor and educator, he was drafted in 1998 Maiello and Colonel Arnald Gabriel. He holds degrees in music by The Schankman Twins, a California-based bluegrass duo now education, conducting, and education administration from signed to Rounder Records. Moravian College, The College of New Jersey, and East Stroudsburg University. He is also a member of the National Band “All of a sudden I was getting these ideas for tunes, and as soon as Association, the National Association for Music Education and the I started getting creative, I thought, I need to start recording.” He Association of Concert Bands. was writing a lot, too. “All of a sudden I was getting these ideas for tunes, and as soon as I started getting creative, I thought, I need to Currently residing in Floyd County, Virginia, Durner and his wife, start recording.” He has appeared several times with the Chris, have six children and are grandparents to nine Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra on mandolin, and likewise in the grandchildren. In his spare time, Durner enjoys tinkering in his Roanoke Symphony Orchestra's clarinet section since 1980. In woodshop, travelling around the US to visit family, watching the 2006, Jeff moved back to his hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. Jeff Philadelphia Eagles, and refining his piano skills. is an orchestra director in the Roanoke City Schools. Jeff Midkiff's Concerto for Mandolin and Orchestra, “From the Blue Ridge,” was composed in 2011 as a commission from David Stewart Wiley and the Roanoke Symphony Orchestra. The first performance was immediately hailed as an exciting and necessary addition to the concerto repertoire for mandolin and orchestra, and is now being performed all over the U.S.. Jeff Midkiff's Double Diamond Circle ($3,000 and up) Your Gifts Make a Difference Anonymous We are hard at work fund-raising, researching Floyd EcoVillage grant opportunities, and seeking individuals, Jennifer Spoon businesses, and foundations that would like to partner with us in making our Festival financially Platinum Circle ($2,000 to $2,999) sustainable for many years. Please consider Jeri & Jonathan Rogers becoming a part of our Festival family by making a Marjory & Randall Wells donation or becoming a business sponsor. Mary & David Wiley

There are many good reasons to Support the Music Silver Circle ($1,000 to $1,499) Festival June M McBroom Charitable Lead Trust  A recent major study by the nonprofit Americans for Kominsky Family the Arts concluded that communities that invest in the arts reap the benefits of economic growth and a Benefactor ($500 to $999) quality of life that positions those communities to Anonymous better compete in our 21st century economy. Bank of Floyd  By creating jobs and promoting tourism, the arts Meg & Frank Carter industry strengthens area businesses and Chateau Morrisette Winery generates significant revenues for our local Rhonda & Michael Daiber governments and the Commonwealth. Sara & Phil Dalton  The arts play a key role in building & revitalizing Dan and Debi Drysdale our rural communities and enhancing our quality Drysdale Eye Center of life – in Floyd County as well as the region. Freedom First Credit Union  The arts are essential to the intellectual and creative Dwight & Patricia Shelor growth of our children & teenagers by boosting Strathmore Capital Advisors student achievement and helping students learn Charles (Chuck) & Gay Streithof critical-thinking skills. Union First Market Bank  Showing your support for the Music Festival helps Clemons & Barbara von Claparede-Crola bring significant long-term benefits to the region. David Stewart & Leah Marer Wiley  And it is really special to have great classical music in our own back yard! Patron ($250 to $499) Animal Care Center of Floyd Checks can be mailed to: Richard Burian & Anne McNabb VBRMF PO Box 757 Callie Dalton & Associates Floyd, VA 24091 Clark Gas & Oil Fred & Ann First or donate securely online by credit card at: Floyd Pharmacy VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org Griffith Lumber Company Haywood’s Jewelers - Westlake Jeanie O'Neill Gallery-Boutique Jerry Rogers Photography Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival gratefully Sam Kephart acknowledges the donations and sponsorships Meredith's Salon made by the following individuals and Mickey G's Bistro & Pizzeria businesses during the past year (from May 10, David Oliver 2013 through May 16, 2014). Your generous Dennis & Suzie Ross support is vital to our continued growth and Rotary Club of Floyd County success. Susan Schiro & Peter McManus Stone, Houston & Associates Sustainer ($100 to $249) Mark & Jennifer Barnard Anonymous B.J. Bauermeister Regine N. Archer Deborah & Joe Baum Sharon Burns & John Jennette Jim & Mary Belcher C. W. Harman & Son Bell Gallery & Garden Lynn Carden Jim Best Country Road Realty Alan & Roseanne Black Rev. Alex & Sheila Darby Lloyd K. Blevins Dirk Davis Nationwide Insurance Lynda Chamowitz Edward Jones Investments William & Mary Clark Cindy Fendley Beverly Collier & Don Johnson Floyd County Historical Society Ann & Richard Conner Floyd Yoga Jam Crooked Road Cafe French Family Dentistry Martha & Mario Delgado John & Betty Getgood Raymond & Nancy Dietz Dick & Diane Giessler Carol Lee Doorandish John Hanson, Judy O'Brien & Kalin Hanson Jay & Christine Durner Marie Henry & Jack Lester Ralph Edwards Kerry & Gloria Hilton Donia Eley James W. Shortt & Associates Andrea Frazier Maxine & Bill Lewis Harvest Moon Food Store Paul & Erika Marer Invision John Marty Ralph Kramer & Nancy Carlson Brenda Miller Steven Lawrence Montgomery Sanitation Services Robert & Sharon Lewis Virginia Neukirch Living Light Yoga & Wellness Center James Newlin & Silvie Granatelli Lori Mahaffey Sydney & Paul Nordt David and Kathy Mann Jodie & Will Norton Dianne Maughan & Fred Weinhagen David Oakes Heinke McDade Oddfella's Cantina Mountain Song Inn Theresa & Brian Palmer Sharon Parker Martha Perry Frank Perrini Phyllis Poff Becky Bee & Joseph Pomponio Riverstone Farm Terry & Carolyn Quinn James & Mary Robertson Round Meadows Cabinet Shop Eleanor Roe Sally & Walter Rugaber Seven Springs Farm CSA Mark Schonbeck Vickie Sowers Harold & Betty Shaw Stanburn Winery George Shelor Allen & Pamela Sundberg David & Dawn Shereda Jim & Meredith Tompkins Stephanie & Jim Shortt Villa Appalaccia Winery Judith Shrum Wills Ridge Supply Robert (Bob) & Shirley Sparrow John Winnicki Robert & Jewel Spencer WinterSun Charles & Hilda Vivier

Friend (up to $99) Nonprofit Sponsor: Anonymous The Jacksonville Center for the Arts Jimi & Peggy Agee Corporate Sponsors: Floyd EcoVillage Bank of Floyd Citizens Drysdale Eye Center Freedom First Credit Union Strathmore Capital Advisors (Charlotte, NC) Union First Market Bank

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Jay Durner, President Barbara von Claparede, Vice President David Wiley Sr, Secretary Jodie Norton, Treasurer Jennifer Brooke Sara Dalton Ed Fallon Sam Kephart Lorrie Mann Natasha Shishkevish Sandra Smith

Vickie Sowers Clemens von Claparede Randall Wells Mary Wiley David Stewart Wiley, Artistic Director Meg Carter, Executive Director

Advisory Group Kamala Bauers Donia Eley Linda Fallon, Past Board President Jack Wall

Virginia’s Blue Ridge Music Festival gratefully acknowledges the many In-Kind contributions made by Board and committee members, volunteers, and area businesses during the past year. Your generous support is vital to our continued success and helps keep our costs to a minimum.

VirginiasBlueRidgeMusicFestival.org 540.597.6314 VBRMF PO Box 757 Floyd, VA 24091 Hardware – Building Supplies Thank You Business Sponsors! CW Harman & Son Build Supply 2894 Floyd Hwy S 745-2252 (as of May 16, 2014) Griffith Lumber Co 1399 Franklin Pike 276-930-2727 Wills Ridge Supply 202 Lumber Ln 745-2044 We ask you to THANK them as well – with your PATRONAGE. Goods & Services 101.5 fm 611 S Jefferson St, #7 Roanoke 24011 344-2800 Food - Wine Callie Dalton & Assoc REALTORS 2320 Electric Rd The Artist’s Table 227 N Locust St 745-5678 Roanoke 24018 540-769-0000 Chateau Morrisette Winery 287 Winery Rd 593-2865 Citizens 220 Webb’s Mill Rd 745-2111 Floyd Country Store 206 S Locust St 745-4563 Clark Gas & Oil 413 E Main St 800-950-3772 Harvest Moon Food Store 227 N Locust St 745-4366 Country Road Realty 646-B Jeb Stuart Highway Mickey G’s Bistro & Pizzeria 113 Parkview Rd 745-2208 Meadows of Dan 276-952-6582 Oddfellas Cantina 110 N Locust St 745-3463 Floyd Co Chamber of Commerce 201 E Main St 745-4407 Red Rooster Coffee Roaster 117 S Locust St 745-7337 Floyd Cnty Historical Soc Museum 217 N Locust St 745-3247 (call for info on self-guided historical walking tour in Floyd) Riverstone Farm 708 Thompson Rd 706-254-3171 Floyd Yoga Jam FloydYogaJam.net Seven Springs Farm CSA 426 Jerry Ln, Check 651-3226 Meredith’s Salon 360 Arbor Dr, Christiansburg 381-3050 Stanburn Winery 158 Conner Dr, Stuart 276-694-7074 Montgomery Sanitation 2115 Fairview St, C’burg 382-2205 Villa Appalaccia Winery 752 Rock Castle Gorge Rd 593-3100 Roanoke Symphony Orchestra 128 E Campbell Ave Roanoke 24011 540-343-9127 Financial – Insurance - Legal Rotary Club of Floyd County FloydRotary.org Bank of Floyd 101 Jacksonville Circle 745-4191 Wordsprint Printer 225 Industrial Dr, C’burg 382-9111 Davis Nationwide Insurance 118 N Locust St 745-4127

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Akemi Takayama & David Stewart Wiley Mendelssohn Violin Concerto at EcoVillage

Maestro Wiley & Fellow Miriam Liske- Doorandish – Dvorak Cello Concerto Elise Blake & Fellows perform Mendels- 2013 sohn Octet for Strings at Floyd EcoVillage Music Festival David Park & Akemi Takayama Bach Double Violin Concerto May 30 – June 9

Fellows jam on S. Locust St.

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Final Concert – Elgar Variations ”Enigma” Handel’s Water Music at EcoVillage lake David Park & David Stewart Wiley

Chamber Concert by Fellows Fellows perform at Floyd Artisan Market Board Meeting after successful at Chateau Morrisette Winery Inaugural Season

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