April at ETSU: Music, theater and household enjoyable

Discover April occasions at ETSU, together with the Mountain Made competition, music concert events, a profit stroll and household enjoyable.    

From the return of a standard folks music competition to campus to theater productions and extra, there’s one thing for everybody at East Tennessee State University in April.

Music lovers will discover performances by not solely spectacular scholar ensembles from the Department of Music and past, but in addition by big-name, award-winning artists. Theater-goers will take pleasure in a musical primarily based on a Stephen King traditional, in addition to an exploration of one in every of Shakespeare’s most devilish villains by a critically acclaimed Broadway actor.

Just a sampling of the actions deliberate at ETSU in April consists of:

• Mountain Made: Appalachian Folk Festival, a revival of conventional festivals on campus with music, storytelling and regional crafts, can be held Tuesday, April 7, headlined by ETSU alumna and Grammy nominee Amythyst Kiah and storyteller Adam Booth.

• The SGA Spring Concert that includes Flatland Cavalry with particular visitor Gretchen Wilson can be held April 15 at Freedom Hall Civic Center.

• “An Evening with Maria Muldaur,” with a dialogue and efficiency by the roots music legend on April 10, in addition to a String Band Summit from April 9-12 that features a free public lecture on “Bluegrass and Religion” on April 9, are supplied by the Department of Appalachian Studies.  

• A efficiency of South Indian Carnatic music with the spirit and verve of jazz by the ATMA (Alliance for Tradition in Musical Arts) Ensemble on April 10 is without doubt one of the many occasions offered by the Department of Music, which additionally embrace concert events by the Percussion Ensemble (April 12), the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and Concert Band (April 18), the ETSU Choirs (April 24) and the ETSU Orchestra with ETSU Opera (April 25).

• “Carrie: The Musical” can be offered by the Department of Theatre and Dance April 15-19, adopted by “Lay My Burden Down,” a solo efficiency by Broadway actor Steve Maurice Jones, the spring 2026 chairholder of ETSU’s Wayne G. Basler Chair of Excellence for the Arts, Rhetoric and Science, on April 25.

• The ETSU Gospel Choir will current “Resound,” a live performance that includes gospel singer Tasha Page-Lockhart, on April 25.

• The Martin Center for the Arts will host “Echoes of Reverie and Light” by the Symphony of the Mountains on April 11, “Forever K-Pop – A Celebration Concert” on April 14 and “The Black Jacket Symphony Presents Bon Jovi ‘Slippery When Wet’” on April 30.

• Team ETSU and Friends will maintain a Walk to Defeat ALS on April 25 to help the ETSU Health Gary E. Shealy Memorial ALS Clinic and ongoing analysis.

Explore the total ETSU Calendar at etsu.edu/calendar/default.php.

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