One of the most popular events in the city is returning to Vancouver.
The Vancouver Arts & Music Festival is brought to local residents by the City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA. The free event features award-winning performers, visual artists, and musicians from the local area, the region, and throughout the world.
The festival is a four-day event held in Esther Short Park, where attendees will find food vendors, and an activity zone including demonstrations and a chance to participate in arts activities, dance performances, pop-up galleries, juried art shows, and live entertainment on multiple stages.
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA will give three concerts under the baton of its principal director Salvador Brotons, and guest conductor Gerard Schwarz, who was the principal conductor of the Seattle Symphony for over 25 years. The festival is excited to welcome Grammy-winning artists who will appear with the orchestra: celebrated soprano Renée Fleming, who appears regularly at the Metropolitan Opera; Sharon Isbin, a classical guitarist who founded and directs the guitar department at the famed Julliard School; and Maggie and Mark O’Connor, a husband-and-wife team. Maggie is a fiddler, violinist, and singer, and Mark is a composer and violinist. They have won awards for their Bluegrass music.
This year’s festival kicks off July 31 and runs through August 3. Events like this, held in multiple locations, benefit when organizers use flyer printing to create handouts including schedules and maps.
