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2008 Summer Festivals - by starting date:
Spoleto USA and Piccolo Spoleto (Charleston, SC) May 23 - June 8;
Duke Summer Music (Durham) May 28 - August 3;
Keowee Chamber Music Festival (Asheville, Waynesville, & Cedar Mt.) June 3-15;
Hot Summer Nights at the Kennedy (Raleigh) June 4 - August 31;
UNCG's Focus on Piano Literature: Paris in the 1920s (Greensboro) June 5-7;
American Dance Festival (Durham) June 5 - July 19;
NCS Summerfest (Cary) June 7 - July 19;
UNCA's Concerts on the Quad (Asheville) June 9 - July 14;
Long Leaf Opera Festival (Chapel Hill) June 11-29;
Magnolia Baroque Festival (Winston-Salem) June 17-22;
NCSA Summer Performance Festival (Manteo) June 24 - August 2;
Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre (Snow Camp) June 26 - August 30;
Brevard Music Center Summer Institute & Festival (Brevard) June 27 - August 10
Appalachian Summer Festival (Boone) June 28 - July 26; &
Highlands-Cashiers Chamber Music Fest. (Highlands/Cashiers) July 6 - August 10
(Pending: CCMF, EMF, & Swannanoa)

• Friday May 23 - Wilmington
  Thalian Hall: The Piano Men (Jim Witter & his band)
  Program: Music of Elton John & Billy Joel
  Thalian Hall, Wilmington. 8:00 p.m.
  $28/$20. 910/343-3664, 800/523-2820, or http://www.thalianhall.com/

• Friday May 23 - Sunday June 8 - Charleston, SC
  Spoleto Festival USA & Piccolo Spoleto Festival
  For complete schedules, see the presenters' websites
  $. http://www.spoletousa.org/ & http://www.piccolospoleto.com/

• Thursday May 29 - New Bern
  NCS New Bern: Alon Goldstein, piano, & NC Symphony, Grant Llewellyn, conductor
  Program: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro: Overture; Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor; & Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”)
  Riverfront Convention Center, New Bern. 7:30 p.m.
  $. 919/733-2750 or http://www.ncsymphony.org/

• Friday May 30 - Wilmington
  NCS Cape Fear: Alon Goldstein, piano, & NC Symphony, Grant Llewellyn, conductor
  Program: Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro: Overture; Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor; & Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 (“Pastoral”)
  Kenan Auditorium, UNCW, Wilmington. 8:00 p.m.
  $. 919/733-2750 or http://www.ncsymphony.org/