Jun 21, 2013 - Jun 30, 2013
FestivALL Charleston
229 Capitol Street
Charleston, WEST VIRGINIA 25301
KANAWHA County
Contact phone: 304-470-0489
Web site: http://www.festivallcharleston.com
Contact e-mail: director@festivallcharleston.com
Latitude: 38.35049
Longitude: -81.634051
A City Becomes A Work Of Art with 10 Days, 130 Events and 350 performances. West Virginia celebrates its 150th and FestivALL helps throw the party with, music, dance, theater, art, free family entertainment and West Virginia themed events all over town!
MUSIC! Kathy Mattea free at Moses Automotive Live on the Levee, Kool and the Gang at The Mayor’s Concert, Marcia Ball at Blues, Brews & BBQ, the Soul Rebels at Wine & All That Jazz and NPR’s Mountain Stage
MORE MUSIC! “Civil War History in Story, Song and Dance” with Bobby Horton, West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Charleston Harmony Concert (featuring National Barbershop Harmony winners OC Times and Kanawha Kordsmen), West Virginia Youth Symphony concert with special guest pianist from Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, Moses Automotive Live on the Levee with the Esquires, Civic Chorus, RCCR Gospel Fest…Over 100 hours of free live music
DANCE! Dance Gala with Martha Graham Company Dancers performing “Appalchian Spring Suite” Charleston Ballet, River City Youth Ballet, site specific Dance in Davis Park, local companies, flash mobs, clog dance, ballroom and swing dance, belly dance, street dance
THEATRE! Charleston Light Opera Guild’s “The Civil War”, original plays “Bricktop and Comstock”, “Political Little Ones” and “Holly Grove” and Charleston Stage Company’s Site Specific Ten Minute Plays. Also, “Singing Down the Moon: Appalachia Wonder Tales” and late night events
ART! Capitol Street Art Fair with 70 Artisans and Street Stages, 12 new “Peer to Pier” Public Art Murals, Alley Door Project, Public Art and Architectural Tours, Downtown Art Walk, Films
FOOD AND MORE! Smoke on the Water Chili Cook-Off, Taste-of-ALL Charleston, Historical Church Tour, “Run for Your Life” and “Biggest Loser” Races, Sunrise Carriage Trail “Fight for Air” Walk with Music and Art, Fishbowl poetry, drum circles, Chemical Valley Roller Girls match, Festival of Soccer tournament, golf tournament, culinary challenge and more
FAMILY FUN! Children’s Art Fair/Library Street Fair and Street Stages, WV 150 History and Art Parade, River Taxi, West Side Wiener Dog Races and Old Fashioned Ice Cream Social, Dizzy Doc’s Gigantic Balloon Sculptures at Charleston Town Center