The musical pairing of a lifetime: Five-time Grammy winner Victor Wooten (Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and a solo artist) joins bestselling author Daniel Levitin (“This Is Your Brain on Music”) to perform together a range of music, originals, and songs you may have heard before.
A blend of artists from North Carolina playing originals and artists from around the country paying tribute to NC musicans- Saturday night marquis event - partner with NC Arts Council
Bob Boilen, host of NPR All Songs Considered and NPR Tiny Desk Concert, will lead a fireside chat with Fantastic Negrito and other Connect Beyond Festival special guests.
A conversational concert hosted by Winston-Salem native and Grammy-nominated music historian, Jonathan Kirby.
Award winning author, Tim Z. Hernandez, offers this engaging performance based on his book “All They Will Call You,” which chronicles his ongoing search for the lives and stories behind one of the most compelling protest songs of the 20th century, “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos (Deportees)”, written by Woody Guthrie.
For this reading, he will be accompanied by Bob Funck, a singer-songwriter in Durham, North Carolina who plays an eclectic brew of Americana folk-rock.
Join movie producer Jason Lust (Peter Rabbit, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day) for a special story time event that celebrates the connection between literacy and reading to children, and explores the connection between books and movies!
Kishi Bashi Presents Omoiyari excerpts from his upcoming album and Song film with interview by Bob Boilen.
Connect Beyond Festival: Signature Event
*All Early Bird ticket purchases include admission to this event.
Highlighting creative material that can shape hearts and minds and examine our path as humans, Nightingale & The Tower explores the themes of technology in the digital age, exploring the delicate balance between nature and technology and the ways in which children must navigate the bridge between the creative and destructive forces of both.
