Triad Arts

Meet the Artist: Tenor Tony Griffey

Internationally acclaimed four-time Grammy award winning tenor, and High Point native Anthony Dean Griffey has been heard in the great opera houses of the world as well as in recital at Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, Hollywood Bowl and Avery Fisher Hall.  He's also continually giving back, from working with handicapped children and raising funds for homeless shelters in the Triad to supporting local arts organizations. 

An Appalachian Music Festival

An Appalachian Summer Festival 2013 kicks off July 5th and runs through August 1st on the Appalachian State campus in Boone with an exciting and diverse mix of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film. For nearly a decade, the festival has been named one of the "Top Twenty Events in the Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society.

Finding Home: Portraits of Courage

Diana Greene makes multimedia stories that explore our sense of identity, place and memory. Chip Bristol is a Chaplain at Prodigals Community looking for ways to blend the creative with the spiritual in the context of twelve-step living, his writing, and painting. The traveling exhibit Finding Home: Portraits of Courage brought them together to empower the men recovering from addiction at Prodigals Community to share their decisions to live clean and sober lives. 

Eastern Music Festival

The first day of Summer has come and gone and for music lovers here in the Piedmont Triad that can only mean one thing: Eastern Music Festival. EMF in Greensboro runs from June 24 – July 27, and this year's line-up of world renowned performers is arguably the most incredible in the festival's 52 year history. Violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Andre Watts and cellist Lynn Harrell are just a few of the many wonderful guest artists who will be performing concerts with the Festival Orchestra, and chamber music as well as teaching the talented EMF students. Gerard Schwarz was named music director of the Eastern Music Festival in 2007, and since that time he has expanded the festival's audiences to the largest in its history while enhancing education and programming to include a composer in residence, 3 new concert series. He's also been responsible for bringing regular premieres of new works to EMF each season by some of this country's greatest living composers. He spoke with David Ford recently by phone from his home in New York. David began by asking him about what's been behind the festival's success.