Grand Canyon Music Festival
is sponsored by
Grand Canyon National Park and
is supported by the Arizona Commission
on the Arts with funding from the
State of Arizona and the National
Endowment for the Arts,
and with funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts, Chamber
Music America with support from
the Helen F. Whitaker Fund and
the Chamber Music America Residency
Endowment Funds, and WESTAF – the
Western State Arts Federation,
and First Nations Composer Initiative.
Expansion of NACAP to Whitehorse
High School in Utah is funded in
part by the Utah Arts Council and
the National Endowment for the
Arts.
Additional Sponsors include:
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All proceeds benefit the Festival.
Festival Calendar
Enjoy world-class music at
a world-class
venue — but leave your dress clothes at home. Escape
to Grand Canyon for
adventure-packed days exploring the park and enchanted nights revelling
in the world's best music! Concert
info
Need trip
planning assistance,
check out our Canyon Information page.
We look forward to seeing you at the Grand
Canyon this year!
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Winner: Governor's Arts Award
Seminfinalist: President’s
Committee
on the Arts and the Humanities Coming Up Taller Award
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August 27, 28 and September
2, 3, 4, 10, & 11
Shrine of
the Ages on the South Rim of Grand Canyon, 7:30 p.m.
School of Rock concert: Friday, September 3 at 5 p.m., Shrine
of the Ages
Bonfiglio Group at Canyon Plaza Resort Grand Canyon,
Tusayan
(just
outside
the park): Sunday, August 29 at 2 p.m.
September 12, NACAP concert at the Grand Canyon Community Building,
5
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| Friday,
Aug. 27 & Saturday, Aug. 28 |
 Arciuli,
Schween, & Gilmore
Italian
pianist Emanuele Arciuli, cellist Astrid Schween, and violinist
Susanna Gilmore perform works by American and European
masters and our Native American Composer Apprentice Project composer-in-residence,
Raven Chacon. Read
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“Make no mistake, Emanuele Arciuli is a
major pianist in the proud Italian traditions of Ferruccio
Busoni and Arturo
Benedetti
Michelangeli.”
Joe
Deninzon and Stephen Benson — Grapelli to Green Day
Jazz violinist Joe Deninzon and guitarist Steve Benson bring the swing treatment
to music by Green Day, Soundgarden, Steely Dan, and a little Chopin and Paganini
thrown in. Performing music from their new CD, "Exuberance." Read
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With special guest Robert Bonfiglio.
“If the violin has a future
in Jazz and Rock, it is with Joe Deninzon"
— RELIX
Magazine
| Friday,
Sept. 3 & Saturday, Sept. 4 |
Newman
and Oltman Guitar Duo with special guests Clare Hoffman and
Robert Bonfiglio.
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“A revelation to hear”
— The
Washington
Post
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Sept. 10 & Saturday, Sept. 11 |
ETHEL's
Truckstop
ETHEL's TruckStop™ with two-time Grammy award winner Robert Mirabal and
Grammy award winning Hawaiian slack key guitar virtuoso Jeff Peterson.
Watch Video and
learn more about ETHEL’s TruckStop
“An extraordinary jazz-blues-rock-classical string ensemble.”
— Greg Sandow, The Wall
Street Journal
Read
More about Jeff Peterson
Read
More about Robert Mirabal
Bring
your family and friends to the Grand Canyon for a memorable,
musical get-away. Make your room reservations and travel arrangements
well in advance, as accommodations inside the Park will sell out quickly.
Trip
planning info
Ordering
Festival products from our Gift
Shop is another way you can show your support! We offer lovely giclee
and poster reproductions by artist Ed Mell, along with t-shirts, and notecards.
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 Sunday,
Aug. 29
2 p.m.
Canyon Plaza Resort Grand Canyon, Tusayan, Presents
Harmonica virtuoso Robert Bonfiglio and guitarist Stephen Benson. Join us for
this
fun, informal event!
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 Friday,
Sept. 3
5 p.m. (at the Shrine
of the Ages)
School of Rock
student concert
Rock along with Grand Canyon high school students in this culminating
recital as they display what they learned during the week long
School of Rock with Bonfiglio Group members Stephen Benson
and Joe Deninzon. Read
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Sunday, Sept. 12
5 p.m. (at the Grand Canyon Community Building)
Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Read
More
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 This
April our Native American Composer Apprentice Project was the focus of American
Public Media’s "Music
That Matters".
Listen to the program and all the interviews here
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"[NACAP students] expressions of first wonder
and then pride at hearing their music were palpable."
— Dr. Patricia A.
Shifferd, American
Composers Forum
We're
excited about this season's stellar group of artists. Come hear performances
by: The Bonfiglio Group (Robert Bonfiglio, Joe
Deninzon, and Stephen Benson), ETHEL (Mary Rowell and Cornelius
Dufallo, violin; Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello), Robert
Mirabal,
Jeff Peterson, Newman
& Oltman Guitar Duo, Emanuele Arciuli, Astrid
Schween, Susanna Gilmore, & Clare
Hoffman. Read
Artists' Bios |
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