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Named one of the Best of Virginia’s Sum mer Events & Activities in 2017

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Friday, July 21, 8:00 p.m.

Wayback Weekend!

An Evening with Arlo Guthrie Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Presents

(The Weavers), Leadbelly, Cisco Houston, Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, all of whom were significant influences on his musical career. He gave his first public performance at age 13 and quickly became involved in the music that was shaping the world during the 1960s.

Arlo Guthrie was born in 1947 with a guitar in one hand and a harmonica in the other. He grew up in Coney Island, the eldest son of America’s most beloved singer/writer/philosopher Woody Guthrie and Marjorie Mazia Guthrie, a professional dancer with the Martha Graham Company, and founder of The Committee to Combat Huntington’s Disease.

Guthrie grew up surrounded by dancers and musicians: Pete Seeger, Ronnie Gilbert, Fred Hellerman and Lee Hays

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Guthrie practically lived in the most famous venues of the “Folk Boom” era. In New York City, he hung out at Gerdes Folk City, The Gaslight and The Bitter End. In Boston’s Club 47 and in Philadelphia he made places like The 2nd Fret and The Main Point his home.

He witnessed the transition from an earlier generation of ballad singers like Richard Dyer-Bennet and bluesmen like Mississippi John Hurt to a new era of singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan, Jim Croce, Joan Baez and Phil Ochs.

He grooved with the beat poets like Allen Ginsburg and Lord Buckley and picked with players like Bill Monroe and Doc

Watson. He learned something from everyone and developed his own style, becoming a distinctive, expressive voice in a crowded community of singersongwriters and political-social commentators.

Guthrie’s career exploded in 1967 with the release of “Alice’s Restaurant,” whose title song premiered at the Newport Folk Festival and helped foster a new commitment among the ’60s generation to social consciousness and activism. Guthrie went on to star in the 1969 Hollywood film version of “Alice’s Restaurant,” directed by Arthur Penn.

With songs like “Alice’s Restaurant,” too long for radio airplay, “Coming into Los Angeles,” banned from many radio stations (but a favorite at the 1969 Woodstock Festival), and the definitive rendition of Steve Goodman’s “City of New Orleans,” Guthrie was no one-hitwonder. An artist of international stature, he has never had a hit in the usual sense.

Over the last five decades, Guthrie has toured throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia winning a wide, popular following. In addition to his accomplishments as a musician, playing the piano, six and twelve-string guitar, harmonica and a dozen other instruments, Guthrie is a natural-born storyteller, whose tales and anecdotes figure prominently in his performances.

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“Sgt. Pepper and The Summer of Love” Saturday, July 22, 8:00 p.m

We’re going back in time this summer.

The activist and clown Wavy Gravy once said, “If you can remember the ‘60s, you weren’t really there.” We’re here to jog your memory if you can’t remember and to introduce those who weren’t around for that watershed year of change, energy and fierce counterculture determination.

Scholar, journalist and editor Harvey Kubernik, in his recently published comprehensive history, “1967: A Complete Rock Music History of The Summer of Love” put it succinctly:

“No previous moment – not the bobby soxers clamoring for Sinatra in ’47; not the poodle-skirted screamers pining for

Elvis in ’57; not even the first salvos of the British invasion in ’64 – had prepared listeners young and old, square and hipster, for what flew out of 1967’s sonic cuckoo’s nest.”

That year, 1967 “remains an indelible ‘hinge year’ of the 20th century, when so many aspects of popular culture, the

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arts, fashion, politics, foreign entanglements, race, women’s rights, reproductive rights, drug laws and more, came into visceral focus,” he writes.

“The push/pull between the “Greatest Generation” and their impertinent offspring put paid to the “Ozzie and Harriet” vision of Middle America; in its stead was a raucous, unpredictable splash of creative indignation that spilled out like an unhinged oil well whose cleanup and consequences remain (deliriously) uncertain.”

But it was peace and love that was fueling the change, not anger or division.

John Phillips, in a tune made famous by Scott McKenzie, urged young people to “wear flowers in their hair,” if they were heading to San Francisco to meet the “gentle people there.” The Youngbloods, in another hit song of the time urged, “Come on people, now, smile on your brother, everybody get together, try to love one another right now.”

The changes of that year still resound. “The musicians, wordsmiths and cultural creatives first heard a half a century ago left their aural footprints in the Summer of Love’s sonic soil.

Those echoes continue to endear and endure,” Kubernik concludes.

Selecting songs from the era for our evening was delightfully difficult work.

After many long conference calls with Piedmont Symphony Orchestra personnel about topics rarely discussed and questions seldom asked, we came up with two set lists that represent the era.

While the Summer of Love was heating up in San Francisco, Los Angeles and other places, the Beatles released perhaps their most famous album that same summer. “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” tossed out the old pop notions of the British Invasion, remade the Fab Four and set rock music on new, experimental paths.

“Sgt. Pepper” was only the beginning.

Half a century after the Beatles’ psychedelic landmark, it stands as one of many musical astonishments of 1967 that shaped what we listen to now,” the Associated Press recently reported.

“It was a year of technical, lyrical and rhythmic innovation, of the highest craftsmanship and most inspired anticraftsmanship. The rock album became an art form” shoving aside the three minute AM radio bubble gum and marking the ascendance of FM radio, with its longer songs and edgier, more experimental sound.

So to all who grew their hair long, played in a band, wore faded blue jeans, dreamed of changing the world – and had children who appreciate the music of your youth as much as you do – this night’s for you. Enjoy!

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Saturday, July 22, 8:00 p.m.

Piedmont Symphony Orchestra Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Presents

“Sgt. Pepper and the Summer of Love” Glen Quader, Conductor And the Sgt. Piedmont Lonely Hearts Club Band: Robb Foster, vocal/guitar; Kenny Hasty, guitar/vocal; Michelle Kern, vocal; Jason Labrador, vocal; Glenn Quader, bass; Sammy Sosa, drums; Michael Thompson, keyboard; Thomas Tucker, bass, guitar.

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band/ A Little Help From My Friends – The Beatles

Lennon/McCartney

San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) – Scott McKenzie

Phillips, arr. Rawlins

I Can See for Miles – The Who

White Rabbit – Jefferson Airplane I Am the Walrus – The Beatles

Townshend, arr. Rawlins Slick

Lennon/McCartney

Brown-Eyed Girl – Van Morrison

Nights in White Satin – Moody Blues

—INTERMISSION—

California Dreamin’ – The Mamas and the Papas Respect/Satisfaction/Chain of Fools (medley)

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds – The Beatles

White Room – Cream

Van Morrison, arr. Rawlins Hayward

Phillips, arr. Rawlins

arr. Rawlins

Lennon/McCartney

Bruce/Brown

A Whiter Shade of Pale – Procol Harum

Brooker/Fisher

Piece of My Heart – Janis Joplin/Big Brother and the Holding Company

Ragovoy/Berns

Somebody to Love – Jefferson Airplane

All Along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix

Strawberry Fields Forever – The Beatles

Slick

Dylan

Lennon/McCartney

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Meet the Artists Glenn Quader, conductor

A native of Washington, D.C., Glenn Quader is rapidly gaining national recognition as a dynamic and versatile conductor. Equally adept in classical, jazz and popular idioms, he appears extensively as a conductor, performer and session musician in the United States and Europe, placing him in consistently high demand on concert stages and in recording studios.

Since Quader’s appointment as music director of the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra in 2005, his tenure has been marked by innovative and enthusiastically received programming and has included three world and two U.S. premieres. The 2007-2008 season included a sixth premiere and the orchestra’s first commission, when composer/guitarist Marcus Wolf performed as soloist. Under Quader’s leadership, the organization has increased its paid core membership, added to the number of performances and enjoyed a three-fold rise in season subscriptions.

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Quader’s most recent professional appointments include music director of the Frederick Symphony Orchestra and conductor for the Maryland Lyric Opera.

His international guest conducting includes programs with the Czech Republic’s Czech Virtuosi and Czech Moravian Chamber Orchestra, Hungary’s Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra and Romania’s Bacau and Brasov philharmonic orchestras. In the United States, he has led the Memphis Symphony, Nashville Symphony, Tuscaloosa Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, White Noise Chamber Players and an ensemble-in-residence with The New World Symphony.

Quader studied at the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University and the universities of Indiana, Illinois, Miami and Florida International, and holds a conducting diploma, awarded by Sicily’s Catania International Conducting Institute.

Jason Labrador, soloist

Jason is an accomplished vocalist having performed in several major concert venues and having shared the stage with well-known artists, such as Aiden Turner, O.A.R. Deana Martin, Jon Anderson (former lead singer of Yes!), Richard Smallwood, Jackie Evancho and many others.

His credits include performing at the John F. Kennedy Center with the altcountry band Jason and the Scorchers and in the world premiere of "Far Behind" by the Bowen-McCauley Dance Company. He has also performed at Signature Theatre in Arlington, with "A Matt Conner Christmas" and in Stephen Sondheim's “Road Show.”

Jason’s performances also include more than 50 musicals, either in the orchestra or on stage. Some of his theater credits include “The Robber Bridegroom,” “Fiddler on the Roof,” “I Love You,” “You’re Perfect, Now Change,” “Ring of Fire,” “Lost Highway,” “Glory Bea! A Shenandoah Christmas Story,” “Aida,” “Man of La Mancha” and “Road Show.”

Since 1996, he has worked with Shenandoah Summer Music Theater as concertmaster, orchestra manager or actor; has served as music director and actor with the Middleburg Players; and has performed with the Kim Reynolds Quartet and the Manassas Ballet Theatre in their production of "Dracula," with original music by Kim Reynolds.

Presently, Jason is associate concertmaster with the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra and plays in the Two Rivers Chamber Orchestra. He has performed in the orchestra and as a soloist with the Mercersburg Community Choir and was a member and soloist of the Loudoun Symphony for eight years.

He has also performed solo with the Arts

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Friday, August 11, 8:00 p.m.

The HillBenders and Seldom Scene Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Presents

As one of the first bluegrass bands to embrace a nontraditional approach, Seldom Scene is known for stretching the boundaries of bluegrass. They’ve embraced artists such as Bob Dylan and the Grateful Dead while mixing it up with Merle Haggard and traditional tunes as well. As it was from their first days with tenor singer John Duffey, the

The HillBenders present The Who’s “Tommy,” a “Bluegrass Opry!”

More than four decades after its original release, The Who’s famous rock opera “Tommy” is now fully realized as a fulllength bluegrass tribute by the Missouribased bluegrass band, The HillBenders.

Conceived and produced by longtime musician/producer Louis Jay Meyers, this “Bluegrass Opry” brings a new perspective to “Tommy,” while paying respect to its creators.

Meyers had been looking for the right band to pull off this high-wire bluegrass approach for several decades, and he found The HillBenders were the right fit.

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Seldom Scene

vocals, The HillBenders bring Pete Townshend’s original vision to life in a new and exciting way.

In this performance, you’ll hear banjo, dobro, mandolin, bass, and guitar bring the same energy and vision to “Tommy” as The Who did with a full rock band and orchestra.

band is still known for its soaring and incredibly tight vocal gymnastics.

With a body of work stretching back to 1971 and early collaborations with music icons

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Saturday, August 12, 8:00 p.m.

The Midtown Men Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Presents

They took Broadway by storm in one of the biggest hits of all-time. Now on their seventh national tour, The Midtown Men are bringing their magic to SVMF! Complete with dazzling choreography and incredible vocals, this electrifying performance will include ‘60s hits from the Beatles, the Rascals, the Turtles, Motown, The Four Seasons and more.

This sensational production reunites four stars from the original Broadway cast of “Jersey Boys.” Tony Award

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winner Christian Hoff, Michael Longoria, Daniel Reichard and Tony Award nominee J. Robert Spencer star in this one-of-a-kind concert experience celebrating the music that defined the ’60s.

These talented entertainers shared the Broadway stage for more than a thousand performances in the mega-hit “Jersey Boys.” Now, as The Midtown Men, they’ve thrilled crowds on concert stages across the U.S., Canada and

abroad, performing more than 600 shows and singing with 31 major symphony orchestras. They’ve also delighted television audiences on “The Today Show,” “Good Morning America,” “Access Hollywood,” “Katie” and “The Chew.”

(Not a performance of nor affiliated with the show “Jersey Boys.”)

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Saturday, September 2, 7:00 p.m.

Emmylou Harris Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Presents

with special guests Eric Brace, Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz

Emmylou Harris

A 13-time Grammy winner and Billboard Century Award recipient, Emmylou Harris is perhaps one of the most admired and influential woman in music with her illustrious career as a singer and songwriter spanning 40 years.

Since the mid-1970s, she has recorded more than 25 albums and has lent her talents to the recordings of countless fellow artists.

In recognition of her remarkable career, Harris was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2008.

Known as much for her eloquently straightforward songwriting as for her incomparably expressive singing, she shook up country radio in the 1970s with hits that included “Two More Bottles of Wine,” “Together Again,” “One of These Days” and “If I Could Only Win Your Love.”

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She established herself as the premiere songwriter of a generation, selling more than 15 million records and garnering 13 Grammy Awards, three CMA Awards, and two Americana Awards, including “Best Americana Album in 2014 for “Old Yellow Moon,” a collaboration with Rodney Crowell. In addition to Crowell, Harris has recorded with such diverse artists as Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Roy Orbison, Ryan Adams, Elvis Costello, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams and Lyle Lovett.

A longtime social activist, Harris has lent her voice to many causes, including Lilith Fair and several benefit tours supporting the Vietnam Veterans of America Foundation. Harris is also an avid supporter of animal rights and is actively involved in Bonaparte’s Retreat, the dog rescue organization that she founded.

Eric Brace, Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz

The new trio Eric Brace, Peter Cooper and Thomm Jutz is not really new. Brace and Cooper have recorded and toured as a duo for ten years now, and Jutz has been producing their records and playing with them for nearly half those years.

Hall’s Songs of Fox Hollow,” their 2011 release that featured them, plus Patti Griffin, Bobby Bare, Jim Lauderdale, Duane Eddy, and Tom T. Hall himself, all reprising tunes from his classic kids record of 1974, “Songs of Fox Hollow.”

The two of them have recorded four albums over the past eight years, a body of work that reflects their storytelling journalism backgrounds (Brace with “The Washington Post,” Cooper with Nashville’s “The Tennessean”), their love of harmony, their subtly wry humor, and their deep respect for the masters they've learned from and played with.

Together, Brace, Cooper and Jutz weave their stories, songs, harmonies and guitar playing into something special, which truly no one else is doing on the singer-songwriter and acoustic music scenes. The lyrics are as thoughtful as those of their heroes, a list that includes John Prine, John Hartford, Kris Kristoffersen, Tom T. Hall, Paul Simon and Townes Van Zandt. Add to that their vocal harmony work that brings to mind Seldom Scene, Emmylou Harris and the Everly Brothers, as well as their sumptuous guitar arrangements, and you have an evening of music that can’t compare to any other.

Brace and Cooper were nominated for a Grammy for producing “I Love: Tom T.

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Special Acknowledgements and the Fishburn Award

Special Acknowledgements

This summer's gold level sponsors are First Bank, Shenandoah Memorial Hospital – Valley Health, Shentel and Sprint. Silver level sponsors are Greenway Engineering, Holtzman Corp., Loudoun Mutual Insurance Co., Myrias Group, ShelRand Enterprises and Shrine Mont. Bronze level sponsors are Brad Pollack, Guests Inc. Comfort Inn Woodstock, Graves-Light Wealth Management Group of Wells Fargo Advisors, Iris Health Solutions LLC, LD&B Insurance and Financial Services, Mountain Valley Management Inc. – Steve Stein, Muse Vineyards, Rodney Shepherd-Voya Financial Advisors Inc., Route 11 Potato Chips, Swover Creek Farms Farm Brewery, Turkey Knob Apples.

The official caterer of the summer is Shaffer’s Barbecue and Catering. Our hotel sponsor is Hampton Inn and Suites of Woodstock.

This summer's media partners are B105 FM, WINC 92.5 FM, WVPT, The Free Press, Northern Virginia Daily, Image Grafx and Printing, WZRV 95.3 FM/WFTR 1450 AM, WMRA 90.7/WEMC 91.7, WBTX 102.1 FM/1470 AM, WSIG 96.9 FM.

In addition to our sponsors, our media partners, our granting organizations, the SVMF Guild, our donors and our dozens and dozens of volunteers, these great folks deserve a round of applause and a standing ovation:

First Bank, our other landlord.

John Burns, publication designer, creator of the SVMF birds, great artist and bluegrass bass player.

Kemp Miller, the velvet-toned voice and creator of our radio ads (and our real estate consultant.)

Kevin Moomaw and the staff of Shrine Mont. What else can we say about this great team?

Larry Roberson, light guy and tech director for years and current official golf cart mover.

Mike and Lisa Rimmington, for providing a home away from home.

Jeff Hess, our Web dude.

Jason Misterka and the outstanding crew from Southard Audio, without question the universe’s best audio team.

Michael Rohrbaugh and Lucy Banks, for hosting a great party in memory of Michael’s father, Woody, to benefit Shenandoah Valley Music Festival.

Fishburn Award

In order to recognize extraordinary service and dedication to the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival, the SVMF’s Board of Directors established the Fishburn Award in 1987. This special honor is named for John Fishburn, Resident Manager/Executive Director from 1973-77 and President from 1978-80.

RECIPIENTS 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

John Fishburn Wilmer Moomaw Edgar Arey Woody Rohrbaugh Gabor Aufricht Florence Young Robert Einstein Eve Newman Gary Boyle Shirley Anderson Russell and Pearl Pancake Emily Carnan Eloise Haun Marion Park Lewis Suzanne Montgomery William Holtzman The Shenandoah Valley Music Festival Guild James and Mary Nolan Leigh Devier Bernie Boston Bill Hudson Michael Funk Thelma Fleming Susie Hill Rod Shepherd Larry Roberson Dick Moomaw and John Moomaw Sandy Pruett John Burns Wes Graves

We wholeheartedly apologize for any omissions.

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Gifts to the Festival Gifts to the Festival

SVMF received contributions from these generous people and organizations between June 16, 2016, and June 15, 2017.

Many of these good people contribute more than once. The gift totals and acknowledgements are cumulative.

Conductor's Club ($1,000 +) Barbara Ackerman, Harrisonburg; in memory of Neel B. Ackerman Bob and Susan Agnew, Arlington Brian Dailey, Woodstock; in memory of Paula Ballo Dailey and Woody Rohrbaugh The Julia S. Davidson Trust; in memory of Julia S. Davidson, Raleigh, N.C. Marion Park Lewis Foundation, Winchester Shenandoah Community Foundation, Woodstock Karen Lerohl Wilson Family, Potomac, Md.

Benefactor ($500 to $999)

Joan M. Anderson and Bruce Kinsey, Woodstock; in memory of Fran and Woody Rohrbaugh and Doug Arthur Ethel R. Chrisman, Richmond Jim and Karen Costie, Mount Jackson D. Leigh Devier, Edinburg Amy L. Fielder, Winchester Patricia and Warren French, Jr., Edinburg John Gaunt, Fort Valley; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Eloise C. Haun, Woodstock Walter and JJ Jones, Edinburg Conrad and Robin Koneczny, Winchester F. Douglas French Sr. Family, Woodstock Earle and Glenna MacKenzie, New Market Jerry and Wendy Weaver, Harrisonburg

Patron ($250 to $499)

Anonymous Anonymous; in memory of Myles J. Ambrose Fred and Christine Andreae, Bentonville Carol Borden, Strasburg William and Judith Buechner, Woodstock; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Beth and Thomas Cardwell, Woodstock Tom Constable, New Market; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Phil and Ellie Daley, Lincoln Jane G. Dalton, Madison; in memory of William Harvey Dalton Christine Di Lapi, Herndon The Findler Family, Edinburg; in memory of Bill Findler

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David and Marcie Finnell, Maurertown Ed and Ellen Hardy, Richmond Greg Hoover, Woodstock Roy and Kate Isom, Basye Gordon and Sue Keehn, Raleigh, N.C. Richard Kiser, Grottoes Dot and Bob Lowerre, Woodstock; in memory of Nellie Leishman Ann Klee, John Macleod Bruce and Vicky McClinton, Maurertown; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh and Rhoda Nancy McFadden and John Richards, Springfield; in honor of Ivy and Alex Sinaiko George Mills and Carla Lilly, Basye Donald R. and Thelma F. Moomaw, Orkney Springs; in memory of Wilmer and Nellie Moomaw John C. Morrison, Woodstock; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Robert Moyers, New Market; in memory of Margie Moyers William and Maxine Pence, Edinburg; in honor of D. Leigh Devier and Dennis M. Lynch Pat and Dan Ritchie, Winchester; in memory of Lena Turner Sager Real Estate, Strasburg Tom and Joan Schaumberg, Washington, DC Jerry and Mary Sherman, Manassas Ivy and Alex Sinaiko, Alexandria Liz Sollenberger, Woodstock; in memory of Ted Sollenberger Donna Dellinger Stern and Ernest Stern, Bethesda, Md. Derrick Tam, Vienna Helmut and Caroline Thielsch, Midlothian Kay Townshend, Edinburg; in memory of Harry "Jack" Townshend David and Sue Wildt, Strasburg Brenda and Fred Wynn, Basye Lynn and Rick Zoll, Kettering, OH; in memory of John and Fredelle Fishburn and Betsy Sager Fishburn

Sustainer ($100 to $249)

Anonymous Anonymous, in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Joanne M. Aarseth, Sterling Sara Addis, Edinburg Suzanne Arthur, Strasburg

Richard and Debbie Banks, Vienna; in memory of Betty Smith Alex and Pat Banks, Harrisonburg; in honor of the good work of SVMF Inger Bjerknes, Upper Marlboro, Md.; in honor of Sebastian Merv and Jackie Bourque, Front Royal; in memory of Doug Arthur, because he loved this music so much.

Teresa Boyle, Woodstock Howard and Lisa Brown, Woodstock Nancy C. Bryant, Harrisonburg; in honor of Mary Nolan and Madison Shinaberry Wayne and Beverly Butterfield, New Market Douglas Campbell, Haymarket Mr. and Mrs. Walter Campbell, Mount Jackson William and Barbara Carper, Strasburg Casey Carter, Harrisonburg; In memory of Karen D. Evans Brad and Mary Ellen Chewning, Harrisonburg Dean and Sandra Clatterbuck, New Market Kay and Don Clem, Broadway William H. and Lois D. Coffman, Woodstock Jill and Charlie Cosgrove, Springfield Shenandoah Community Foundation's Dr. John and Elizabeth Cottrell Fund, Woodstock Dr. John and Elizabeth Cottrell, Maurertown; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Judy and Eady Craig, Basye George and Donna Crossman, Strasburg; in memory of Dorothy Crossman Allie D'Accurcio, Basye Dr. Jeffrey and Nancy Davis, Winchester Judith Davis, Cheverly, Md. Joan and Robert Deckow, Mount Jackson Third Hill Winery, Quicksburg David Dickinson, Buena Vista Joe and Cindy Donohoe, Arlington H. Ken and Jane Elkins, Weyers Cave Wolf Gap Vineyard and Winery, Edinburg Ken and Polly Emenheiser, Basye Karen Estep, Edinburg; in memory of Julie "Jewel" Brice Richard and Fran Etner, Basye James and Barbara Fagan, Basye Jan and Judi Flakowicz, Southern Shores, N.C.; in memory of J. W. Rohrbaugh Lore Fogle, Fort Valley; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh

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Gifts to the Festival Bill and Sue Foster, Strasburg Dr. Mike Fray, Fredericksburg; in memory of Janet L. Fray Sara G. Garland, Woodstock; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Stephen S. Ginn, Winchester; in honor of Brittany and Kourtney Ginn Susan R. Grandfield, New Market; in memory of Bill and Audrey Rosenberger Donna and Bob Gregg, Arlington Bobby and Robin Grubbs, Woodstock Michael and Helen Haltzel, Alexandria Barbara and Warren Halvorson, Woodstock Christopher and Phyllis Hamilton, Harrisonburg Mr. and Mrs. H. Hamre, Charlottesville Barbara and David Harris, Front Royal Gary and Elaine Harshman, Bayse Laurence Heine, Rockingham Stephen Heitz, Harrisonburg Larry and Robin Helsley; Edinburg, in memory of Jack Townshend Bob and Susie Hill, New Market Glenn and Sandra Hodge, Harrisonburg John G. Holmes, Arlington; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Susan Hrbek, Front Royal John Iezzi and Becky Pinner, Richmond Lee and Mary Jones, Bradenton, Fla. Carolyn A. Jones, Berryville Frank and Cyndy Jurney, Front Royal Randy and Donna Kibler, Edinburg Steven and Nancy Kinsner, Strasburg Mike and Theresa Knight, Alexandria Tom Knowles, Strasburg Carolyn Kyger, Harrisonburg Mr. and Mrs. Ronald LaMascus, Chambersburg, Pa. Ronald Landis, Basye; in memory of Karen Louise Urquart Landis Larry and Jane Lehman, Fredericksburg Bob and Carolyn Leiston, Lost River, W.Va. Richard Leonard and Nancy Donnelly, Basye Linda and Bo Lindberg, Arlington Lions Club of Mount Jackson Mike and Nancy Liskey, Edinburg Charles and Cynthia Litten, New Market Phyllis and Bas Lockett, Charlottesville; in honor of Dennis M. Lynch Rachel Lynch, Winchester David and Debbie MacDonald, Woodstock John and Pat Mariska, Burke Gary and Gloria Markley, Edinburg; in memory of Jack Townshend Jean M. Martin, Woodstock; in memory of Charlie Martin

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Joseph and Sara Kay McCallum, Woodstock; in memory of Mr. Raymond Joyce Mr. and Mrs. Ian S. McDonald, Chevy Chase, Md. E. K. McFadden, Basye Doris J. Miller, Edinburg; in memory of Dr. Stage Miller Judy Miller, Toms Brook Ted Miller and Lynne Crumpacker, Edinburg; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Page Mitchell, White Post Julie and Ron Moomaw, Orkney Springs; in memory of Julia and Bill Pendleton Mr. and Mrs. John Moomaw, Orkney Springs Bill and Shirley Moyers, Woodstock Stephen F. Murphy, Jr., Massapequa, N.Y. D.J. Neary, Broadway Margaret Nelson, Woodstock; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Lynne and Sean Nouvel, Basye Mitch and Pam Orndorff, Winchester Richard and Grace Orndorff, New Market Jerry and Mert Parsons, Los Gatos, Calif.

Bill and Mary Weeks, Waynesboro Julie Petruska, Blacksburg Steve and Wendy Pieper, Strasburg Mark and Karen Pierce, Maurertown; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Powell, Woodstock Sandy Pruett, Woodstock Jean and John Ralston, Basye Brenda Rawlings, Fort Valley Edward Reardon, Washington, DC Robin Rinaca, Accomac John and Carol Rosenberger, New Market Mike and Judi Salvino, Stanley Ronald and Beverly Scheule, Edinburg; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh W. Craig and Jill Sease, Dayton; in honor of Pastor George Nabors Glenn and Patty Sengstack, Damascus, Md. Dan and Naomi Shenk, Harrisonburg Woodstock Cafe and Shoppes, Woodstock Andy and Jill Shipp, Woodstock; in memory of Woodrow and Frances Rohrbaugh Al and Ethel Mae Sisneros, Mount Jackson The Sletten Family, Hamilton; in memory of Judy Sletten Danuel L. and Helen Jean Smith, Edinburg; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Jim and Kim Stevenson, Mount Jackson Ralph and Gloria Stickley, Strasburg Linda F. Street, Winchester William and Sharon Lee Streett, New Market; in memory of Mary Ellen Stalker Mr. and Mrs. Jack Strimple, Winchester Gerald and Sharon Strite, Harrisonburg

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Anonymous Kathryn Abrams, Edinburg Ronald and Catherine Arehart, Harrisonburg Ann Spann-Asbury, Kingsport, Tenn.; in honor of Robert F. and Jane H. McTier, Keezletown, Va. Susan E. Bailey, Middletown Mary Datchelor Old Girls' Club; in thanksgiving for musical education received at Mary Datchelor School Tom and Micki Selby Barbour, Fort Valley Ted Bean and Kathy Brown, Woodbridge Robbi and Mercedita Biggs, Front Royal Bill and Gloria Boone, Edinburg The Bowen Family, Staunton Lauren Bowman and Jaime Williams, Mount Jackson Mary Louise Brown, Rileyville Philip and Nyda Budig, Alexandria Paul and Ann Burkholder, Winchester Ned and Margaret Burks, Berryville Robert Cathcart, Charlottesville The Chase Family, McLean; in memory of Glenn Chase Brian H. Chollar, Falls Church Rick Claybrook, Broadway; in memory of my grandparents, Nellie and Marshall McNeal of Shenandoah County Angela Clem, New Market Christopher and Anne Collins, Arlington Charles and Rebecca Conaty, Vienna Suzanne and John Conrad, Winchester Sally Cook, Falls Church Cal and Joan Coolidge, Front Royal Linda Couture, Alexandria Kevin Cox, Reston Donald and Carmela Crawford, Winchester Jimmy and Regina Crocker, Front Royal Veronica Crump, Burke Rebecca Davis, Gerrardstown, W.Va. Sherie Day, North Bethesda, Md.; in memory of Mark Day Richard T. Deadrick, Rockingham; in memory of Bessie T. Deadrick Don and Essie Deen, Basye Shirley L. Dellinger, Mount Jackson; in honor of Stephen E. and Sally Dellinger Matthew DesRosiers, Winchester Robert J. Devlin, Woodstock; in memory of the Devlin and Borlen Families Lou Ann and Jim Dietz, Mount Jackson Susan Dietz, Quicksburg Mr. Seton Droppers, Arlington Kent and Jamie Duffy, Arlington Frances and Wilburn Duty, Manakin-Sabot

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David Evans, Arlington; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Troy Fadeley, New Market Neil C. Fadely, Mount Jackson Penelope Ferguson, Staunton Marian Fitzwater, Harrisonburg Robert and Sue Flory, Springfield David and Judith Franz, Basye Brent Franzel, Bethesda, Md. J. E. Freeze, Annandale John and Mary Fritsche, Burke William and Lisa Frye, Winchester Cathy Fulk, Harrisonburg; in honor of Cheryl Talley Tim and Trisha Funk, Woodstock Mary Gessner, Woodstock; in memory of Woody Rohrbaugh Kirk and Linda Gibson, Winchester Kathy Gilliam, Front Royal Clivie and Nancy Goodwin, Sanibel, Fla. Margaret Gouldman, Upper Marlboro, Md. Susan Griffen, Potomac, Md. Linda Habenstreit, Springfield Hugh and Diane Hanson, Bayse John Hubbard Harris, Richmond; in memory of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Harris Jr. Benjamin Harrison, Boyce Debra W. Harrison CPA, Orkney Springs Phil and Penny Harvey, Aldie Floyd and Amy Heater, Edinburg Lee Hepner, Maurertown James and Harriet Hiner, Mount Jackson June Hockman, Maurertown W. Dale and Meredith K. Houff, Luray Linda and Rob Humphrey, Winchester Harry Jansen, Woodstock Sarah Jones, Harrisonburg Susan Kassell, Potomac, Md.; in memory of Miriam I.R. Eolis Linda and Richard King, Midlothian; in memory of Mr. and Mrs. William Stephens Robert Kirk, Wardensville, W.Va. Mary and Nathaniel Kirkland, Edinburg Jean and Kenny Klinge, Basye; in memory of Gregg Evans and Channing Armell Dan and Sandy Klug, Basye Ed and Suzie Koller, Fort Valley Don and Cathy Kormann-Delta Plumbing, Baltimore, Md. Steve and Jane Krebs, Carlisle, Pa. Barbara Lafever, Edinburg Ilse Larking, Edinburg Wesley and Phyllis Larrick, Strasburg Bake and Jan Layman, Penn Laird Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Layman Jr., Penn Laird Ann Marie Leonard, Rockingham Nancy and Kevin Lewis, Basye

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Matching Gifts

These companies matched gifts from employees and retirees to the Shenandoah Valley Music Festival during the program year. We thank them very much. Please check with your employer to see if your gifts can be matched!

Boeing Company Gift Match, Renton, Wash.

Dominion Foundation Matching Gift Program, Princeton, N.J. GE Foundation Gift Match, Fairfield, Conn.

Merck Foundation, Andover, Mass.

2016 Volunteers and Brochure Distributors Leigh Devier, on-site volunteer coordinator Bill Boone, Edinburg John and Gail Carten, Arlington Pete and Maureen Crisman, Edinburg George and Donna Crossman, Strasburg Kim Donahoe, Basye Jordan and Quinby Finch, Woodstock Marcie Finnell, Maurertown Lore Fogle, Fort Valley Katherine Freeman, Woodstock Robert Golightly, Winchester Chalmers and Melody Goshorn, Stuarts Draft Mike and Colleen Gray, Timberville Bonnie Grubbs, Strasburg Beck Halsted, Winchester

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Chorale of Winchester under the direction of Michael Main. Just in case you thought he couldn’t do it all, Jason has also performed with the bluegrass band “Nothin’ Fancy” at the 10th Anniversary Nothin’ Fancy Bluegrass Festival in Buena Vista.

Jason also had the honor of playing at the 2017 Bi-Partisan Inaugural Ball for the current president with Andy Kushner Entertainment and Design.

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Gary and Elaine Harshman, Basye Bob and Susie Hill, New Market Carol Hopkins, Clear Brook Beth Huddleston, Winchester Win and Kristen Iden, Front Royal Roy and Kate Isom, Basye Rovin and Vivian Karki, Alexandria Eleanore Kobetz, Berryville Sharon Koontz, Mount Jackson Karen Lam, Harrisonburg Terri McGillivray, Timberville Maureen Gallagher-McLeod, Broadway Sharon Music, Wardensville, W.Va. Bill Nabers, Basye

Judy Paige-Grimm, Winchester Carole Paulett, Mount Jackson Ron Poe, Wardensville, W.Va. Devin Ross, Quicksburg Deborah Rice, Sterling Kim Slevin, Strasburg Elizabeth Smoot, Edinburg Scott and Kelli Sprague, Keezletown John and Deborah Veitch, Edinburg Melanie White, Richmond Bobbi Wilinski, Broadway Mona Wolf, Mount Jackson

A native of Virginia Beach, Jason graduated from the Virginia Governor’s School for the Arts in Norfolk and finished his studies in voice and violin at Shenandoah University.

stage presence, soprano Annie Gill continues to gain recognition as a distinctive emerging artist. Excelling in the repertoire of Mozart and Puccini, Gill has been commended for a glorious voice — opulent from top to bottom — and possesses an extensive variety of vocal colors in her expressive full lyric soprano.

Annie Gill soloist

Praised for astounding technical vocal ability, solid song interpretation and

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Most recently, Gill performed a recital of Czech and Slovak art songs and arias, “Písně Lásky a Naděje” – “Songs of Love and Hope,” in Baltimore, Md. Earlier in 2016, she sang the roles of Lauretta in “Gianni Schicchi” with Opera Camerata of Washington, and Serpina (Serpinia) in The In Series’ production of “La Serva Padrona,” receiving enthusiastic reviews from music critics for handling “the rollercoaster range from high to low of Pergolesi’s score with aplomb.”

Gill made her debut with the Cathedral Choral Society as a soprano soloist in the Fantastic Beethoven concert under the baton of esteemed conductor J. Reilly Lewis. Also in 2016, Gill performed as the soprano soloist in the Baltimore Composers’ Forum concert, where she premiered works by composers Anna Rubin, Keith Kramer, Janice Macaulay, Garth Baxter and Harriet Katz.

During the 2015-2016 season, Gill added the roles of Cio-Cio San in “Madama Butterfly” and Marzelline in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” to her extensive list of operatic repertoire and returned for her fourth production of “Don

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Giovanni” to perform the role of Donna Anna. In recital, Gill performed the world premiere of composer Garth Baxter’s song cycle “Three Poems” from Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Other roles include Micaëla in “Carmen” and Kate Pinkerton in “Madama Butterfly,” both with Opera Camerata and Fiordiligi in “Cosi fan tutte” with Opera NOVA. She also covered renowned soprano Asako Tamura in the title role of Cio-Cio San. As Mimì/Pamina/Despina in The In Series production of “Fatal Song,” Gill received excellent reviews from critics for her “nuanced performance” and “bell-clear rendition” of arias by Puccini and Mozart.

With over 30 roles from opera, operetta, and musical theater in her repertoire, Gill continues to garner acclaim for her commanding interpretations, detailed characterizations, and dramatic performances. Past roles include the title roles in Puccini’s “Suor Angelica” and Massenet’s “Manon,” Nedda (“I Pagliacci”), Rosalinde (“Die Fledermaus”), Mimì and Musetta (“La Bohème”), The Mother (“Amahl and the Night Visitors”), La Contessa (“Le Nozze di Figaro”), Donna Elvira (“Don Giovanni”), and Pamina (“Die Zauberflöte”) with companies including The Singers’ Theatre of Washington, Baltimore Opera Theatre, Aurora Opera Theatre, and Opera in the Ozarks.

Gill won the grand prize for the 2017 Alpha Corinne Mayfield Award in Opera Performance from the National Federation of Music Clubs. She was also a first prize winner in the 2013 Barry Alexander International Vocal Competition, where Gill made her Carnegie Hall debut in the competition Winners’ Recital on Jan. 27, 2013. In 2012, Gill also won the grand prize in the 2012 Singer Recital Competition for

the Art Song Festival of Toledo, Ohio and performed a full solo recital program for the first evening of the festival.

In addition to her classical singing career, Gill is a voice over artist and acts in commercials and television, notably appearing as the “Opera Singer” in the season two finale of “ House of Cards.”

Upcoming performances include concerts with the Baltimore Musicales, Lyric Opera afternoon recital series, and Opera Nights at Sotto Sopra. Gill will also record Garth Baxter’s “Two Last Songs” and “April Twilight,” which the composer wrote for her.

Piedmont Symphony Orchestra

Shenandoah Valley Music Festival is excited to have the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra back for a second season. As a not-for-profit arts organization, SVMF supports the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra's mission to provide an enduring creative outlet for musicians and the community that entertains, educates and furnishes a shared experience in symphonic repertoire.

Founded in 1996 by Michael A. Hughes as the Piedmont Regional Orchestra, it started as an ensemble for amateur and student musicians. The orchestra rehearsed at Fauquier High School and provided several concerts per season.

Upon the opening of the Highland Center for the Arts in 2003, the PRO established its residency there and soon thereafter changed its name to the Piedmont Symphony Orchestra.

In 2005, Glenn Quader became the second music director of the PSO and continued the tradition set forth by Mr.

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David Emswiler Managing Broker, REALTOR®

540-325-6418 (Mobile) 540-459-4002 (Office)

Shirley French REALTOR

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fax (540)551-4399 183 East King Street Strasburg, VA 22657

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