Featured artists include Amanda Anne Platt, Christopher Paul Stelling, Brie Capone, Julia Christgau, Rissi Palmer, Johnny Irion, Lonnie Holley, Josh Blake, Ryan O’Keefe and Daniel Shearin (River Whyless), Jamar Woods, Marisa Blake and an All-Star Asheville backing band.
*This event is only included with purchase of Early Bird tickets to Connect Beyond Festival 2019.
Join movie producer Jason Lust (Peter Rabbit, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) for a special story time event that celebrates the connection between literacy and reading to children, and explores the connection between books and movies!
Highlighting creative material that can shape hearts and minds and examine our path as humans, Nightingale & The Tower explores the themes of technology in the digital age, exploring the delicate balance between nature and technology and the ways in which children must navigate the bridge between the creative and destructive forces of both.
Kishi Bashi Presents Omoiyari excerpts from his upcoming album and Song film with interview by Bob Boilen.
A conversational concert hosted by Winston-Salem native and Grammy-nominated music historian, Jonathan Kirby.
The live conversations, based on Boilen’s book “Your Song Changed My Life,” will provide an intimate look into the minds of these cutting-edge musicians plus acoustic performances.
The musical pairing of a lifetime: Five-time Grammy winner Victor Wooten (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and a solo artist) joins bestselling author Daniel Levitin (“This Is Your Brain on Music”) to perform together a range of music, originals, and songs you may have heard before.
Traditional Mardi Gras Indian Concert
Concert With Lyric, Big Chief Juan Pardo, Kat Williams, Johnny Irion, John Goodwin, And Matt Townsend
A reading of “A Mouth Is Always Muzzled” by the author, Natalie Hopkinson.
