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New Visions Series
Stephen Phillip Harvey Jazz Orchestra
MULTIVERSAL: Live at Bop Stop (CA)
Saturday, February 7
Jackson Family Auditorium, Holloway Hall, 7:30 p.m.
Multiversal: Live at Bop Stop showcases Stephen Philip Harvey’s 17-piece Jazz Orchestra in a bold, inventive live performance. This project uniquely blends the power of a full contemporary jazz ensemble with comic book-inspired themes, turning superhero motifs, powers, and story arcs into dynamic, cinematic musical narratives. From telekinesis to sidekick transformations, the music presents an exciting, imaginative take on the jazz orchestra, highlighting Harvey’s creativity while celebrating the virtuosity of his talented players.
Free admission; tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
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PETER & JUDY JACKSON CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Providing opportunities for live chamber music concerts to be heard and enjoyed on the Eastern Shore.
Łukasz Kuropaczewski, Guitar
Tuesday, February 10
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7 p.m.
Łukasz Kuropaczewski, hailed as “the new megastar of the classical guitar” (El Nuevo Día), performs worldwide as a soloist and chamber musician, appearing in venues such as London’s Royal Festival Hall, Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, and New York’s Carnegie Hall. He has premiered works by Marc Neikrug, Krzysztof Meyer, and others, and collaborates with leading artists including Avi Avital and Jakub Józef Orliński. Kuropaczewski teaches at the Kunst University Graz and the Academy of Music in Poznań, Poland.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Allegheny Ensemble - LIVESTREAM (M)
Wednesday, February 25
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30 pm
LIVESTREAM: $10 | Buy Tickets |
| | Allegheny Ensemble (M)
Wednesday, February 25
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30 pm
Free admission; tickets are required.
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| | A Celebration of Great Composers (M) presents Fiesta de la Música: Sounds of the Spanish World
Sunday, March 1
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 3 & 5 pm
Join us for a spectacular celebration of Spanish music as we honor the 150th birthday of Manuel de Falla, one of Spain’s greatest composers. This festive program will highlight the rich traditions, fiery rhythms, and lyrical beauty of the Spanish world.
This special program features guest artist Alberto Barga, Spanish-born pianist and faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, alongside talented local young musicians, bringing generations together in a vibrant celebration of music.
Admission is free; but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
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Patricia White Wroten Piano Concert Series:
Anthony de Mare (CA)
Wednesday, March 11
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7 pm
Celebrated contemporary pianist Anthony de Mare performs a special concert featuring some of the most adventurous composers of the past century, alongside works from his acclaimed project LIAISONS: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano. This landmark initiative brings together leading contemporary composers from across musical genres, each reimagining a Stephen Sondheim song as a solo piano piece.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Bobbi Biron Theatre Program Presents Into the Woods (T)
Music & Lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
Book by James Lapine
Directed by Jamie McKittrick
Music Direction by William Folger
Thursday-Saturday, March 12-14*
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm & 2pm*
In this classic Tony award winning musical with enchanting music and brilliant lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine, familiar characters from Grimm fairytales are thrown together in a world of magic, mysteries, desires and consequences. It’s funny, dark, romantic, and full of possibilities – a cautionary tale that asks if happily ever really exists.
General Public: $25
Alumni: $20
Senior: $20
Faculty/Staff: $10
SU Student/Non-SU Student: $5
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PETER & JUDY JACKSON CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES
Providing opportunities for live chamber music concerts to be heard and enjoyed on the Eastern Shore.
Still Waters Trio
Wednesday, March 25
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7 p.m.
Still Waters Trio presents “Nature’s Song and Dance,” a new program that celebrates nature, watercolors, song, and dance with music by Elana Kats-Chernin, Philippe Gaubert, William Grant Still, John Eric Copeland, and Kenji Bunch. Join Still Waters Trio – Ashley Watkins on flute, Denise Nathanson on cello, and Veronica Tomanek on piano – along with guest artist Eric Shuster on percussion for this eclectic collection of music from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Chris English - Blues in the Black Box (M)
Friday, March 27
Fulton Theatre, Black Box, 7:30pm
Dedicated to his craft and the spirit of blues, Chris English is a veteran blues artist and SU Music Department faculty member.
The Chris English duo is a powerful blend of Chris on guitar, harp, vocals and an old coca-cola crate used as a stomp box combined with Grayson English, an SU music alumni, who provides a solid bottom end on the bass. Together these two bring a big sound.
Program includes a variety of acoustic and electric blues in an intimate setting.
General Public: $15
Senior: $15
Faculty/Staff: $10
SU Student/Non-SU Student: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Brass and Woodwind Recital - LIVESTREAM (M)
Wednesday, April 1
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
LIVESTREAM: $5
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| | Brass and Woodwind Recital (M)
Wednesday, April 1
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required.
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| | Faculty & Friends - LIVESTREAM (M)
Thursday, April 9
Holloway Hall, Great Hall 7:30pm
The annual tradition where Jackson Music Program colleagues Danielle Cumming and William Folger present a program with special guests, including current students, past students, colleagues and friends, to perform for fun!
LIVESTREAM: $5
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| | SU Dance Company Spring Concert - (D)
Directed by Sammy Reyes
Friday-Sunday, April 9-12*
Fulton Hall Black Box Theatre, 7:30pm & 2 pm*
The spring concert features works choreographed by guest artists.
General Public: $15
Alumni: $12
Senior: $10
Faculty/Staff: $5
SU Student/Non-SU Student: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Faculty & Friends (M)
Thursday, April 9
Holloway Hall, Great Hall 7:30pm
The annual tradition where Jackson Music Program colleagues Danielle Cumming and William Folger present a program with special guests, including current students, past students, colleagues and friends, to perform for fun!
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: Free
SU Student/Non-SU Student: Free
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| | Recital: Grace McCreary Bagley, mezzo-soprano (M) - LIVESTREAM
Friday, April 10
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Recital: Grace McCreary Bagley, mezzo-soprano (M)
Friday, April 10
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
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The Lab Series
EL KHAT (CA)
Monday, April 13
Conway Hall 317, TV Studio, 7:30 p.m.
El Khat, led by multi-instrumentalist Eyal El Wahab of Yemeni descent, creates psychedelic electric folk music honoring a culture long disenfranchised. The ensemble combines percussion, strings, and custom-built instruments to produce euphoric, immersive soundscapes. Drawing from 1960s Yemeni folk and pop, El Wahab reinterprets Yemen’s sonic heritage through a contemporary lens, crafting music that is both otherworldly and deeply grounded in the realities of war, displacement, and cultural resilience.
Free admission; tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Percussion Ensemble - LIVESTREAM (M)
Thursday, April 16
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
Under the direction of Eric Shuster, the ensemble presents new, classic and underperformed works for percussion in the spirit of the genre’s experimental roots in 1930s and 1940s America.
LIVESTREAM: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Percussion Ensemble (M)
Thursday, April 16
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
Under the direction of Eric Shuster, the ensemble presents new, classic and underperformed works for percussion in the spirit of the genre’s experimental roots in 1930s and 1940s America.
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: FREE
SU Student/Non-SU Student: FREE | Buy Tickets |
| | World Drum Ensemble - LIVESTREAM (M)
Saturday, April 18
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
The World Drum Experience features Latin and African rhythms including steel drums. The performance will include World Drum Experience, World Drum Ensemble. We will feature Afro Beat, Latin and music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. We will include Blood Sweat & Tears, Babatunde Olatunji, Snarky Puppy and a special performance of David Rudder’s The Hammer on the steel drums.
LIVESTREAM: $5
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| | World Drum Ensemble (M)
Saturday, April 18
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
The World Drum Experience features Latin and African rhythms including steel drums. The performance will include World Drum Experience, World Drum Ensemble. We will feature Afro Beat, Latin and music from the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. We will include Blood Sweat & Tears, Babatunde Olatunji, Snarky Puppy and a special performance of David Rudder’s The Hammer on the steel drums.
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: FREE
SU Student/Non-SU Student: FREE
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Brazilian Cia Armorial
Monday, April 20
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7 pm
Cia Armorial performs Brazilian folk music that transports you to the time when purity, simplicity and sincerity reigned, where noble values were transmitted from generation to generation and through endless conversations on the balconies, songs that extolled love by the simple and sweet poetry of songs that enchanted love and heartbreak from the time of Colonial Brazil.
Cia Armorial features Marcello Linhos playing viola caipira and voice, Nelson Latif on seven string guitar, Esdras Rodrigues (rebeca), and Marcelo Lima (Bandolin). These string instruments are traditionally Brazilian, especially the viola caipira, a plucked 10-string guitar and a symbol of Brazilian country music.
Sponsored by World Artists Experiences, Inc.; the Embassy of Brazil, Washington, D.C.; and the SU Office of Cultural Affairs.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Piano & Strings Recital (M)
Friday, April 24
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 2 pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required.
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| | Piano & Strings Recital - LIVESTREAM (M)
Friday, April 24
Great Hall in Holloway Hall, 2 pm
LIVESTREAM: $5
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| | Jazz Ensemble (M)
Thursday, April 30
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
The Salisbury University Jazz Ensemble will present instrumental and vocal big band music from the past and present. In addition to new compositions by director Jerry Tabor, the band will perform music originally recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, the Andrews Sisters, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Pat Metheny, Radiohead, and Yes. Fronting the band are the fabulous vocal soloists Ayla Dennis, Grace McCreary Bagley, and Keily Jelley, who also sing as a trio in unforgettable renditions of jazz classics from the swing era.
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: FREE
SU Student/Non-SU Student: FREE | Buy Tickets |
| | Jazz Ensemble - LIVESTREAM (M)
Thursday, April 30
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
The Salisbury University Jazz Ensemble will present instrumental and vocal big band music from the past and present. In addition to new compositions by director Jerry Tabor, the band will perform music originally recorded by Ella Fitzgerald, the Andrews Sisters, Sarah Vaughan, Duke Ellington, Pat Metheny, Radiohead, and Yes. Fronting the band are the fabulous vocal soloists Ayla Dennis, Grace McCreary Bagley, and Keily Jelley, who also sing as a trio in unforgettable renditions of jazz classics from the swing era.
LIVESTREAM: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | University & Salisbury Chorales (M)
Saturday, May 2
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: FREE
SU Student/Non-SU Student: FREE | Buy Tickets |
| | University & Salisbury Chorales - LIVESTREAM (M)
Saturday, May 2
Holloway Hall Auditorium, 7:30pm
LIVESTREAM: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Flute Ensemble (M)
Sunday, May 3
Holloway Hall, Great Hall 2 pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required | Buy Tickets |
| | Flute Ensemble - LIVESTREAM (M)
Sunday, May 3
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 2 pm
LIVESTREAM: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Recital: Carriona Goode, flute (M) - LIVESTREAM
Wednesday, May 6
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Recital: Carriona Goode, flute (M)
Wednesday, May 6
Holloway Hall, Great Hall, 7:30pm
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Bobbi Biron Theatre Program presents
The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence (T)
By Madeleine George
Directed by Jess Schoemaker
Thursday-Sunday, May 7-10*
Fulton Hall, Black Box Theatre, 7:30pm & 2 pm*
In this 2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist play, three actors play multiple characters during moments in time where technology shifted how connections are made. From the first phone call to artificial intelligence, this heartfelt comedy looks at what we’ve gained and lost with each technological advancement.
General Public: $15
Alumni: $12
Senior: $10
Faculty/Staff: $5
SU Student/Non-SU Student: $5 | Buy Tickets |
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Global Experiences Series
Dogo du Togo & the Alagaa Beat Band
Friday, May 8
Assembly Hall, Guerrieri Academic Commons, Show at 7:30 p.m., Cash Bar & Snacks on the Terrace at 6:30 p.m.
After two decades fronting U.S.-based Afro-pop band Elikeh, Massama Dogo returns to his Togolese roots with the electrifying alagaa beat – a trance-inducing fusion of Ewe, Mina, Ga, and Kabye rhythms. Performed by lifelong friends from Lomé, the Alagaa Beat Band creates a vibrant new sound grounded in Togo’s musical traditions. Combining Vodún-inspired melodies and Togo’s cultural history, their sound boldly maps a fresh, vibrant direction for contemporary West African music.
Free admission; tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | SSO at 40: The Soundtrack Strikes Back
Saturday, May 9, 7:30pm
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium
In honor of its 40th anniversary, SSO presents an epic orchestral journey through four decades of film, television, and video game music. Emerging artist, Leonard Fu, joins the orchestra for a cinematic concerto performance.
General Public: $25
Senior: $20
Faculty/Staff: $10
SU Student/Non-SU Student (under 22) : $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | SSO at 40: The Soundtrack Strikes Back
Saturday, May 9, 7:30pm
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium
In honor of its 40th anniversary, SSO presents an epic orchestral journey through four decades of film, television, and video game music. Emerging artist, Leonard Fu, joins the orchestra for a cinematic concerto performance.
LIVESTREAM: $10 | Buy Tickets |
| | Larum Voces (M)
Sundaty, May 10
Holloway Hall, Great Hall 7:30pm
Larum Voces, a student choral group, performs classical, contemporary, and student works.
Admission is free, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
| | Larum Voces - LIVESTREAM (M)
Sunday, May 10
Holloway Hall, Great Hall 7:30pm
Larum Voces, a student choral group, performs classical, contemporary, and student works.
LIVESTREAM: $5 | Buy Tickets |
| | Salisbury Pops (M)
Tuesday, May 12
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium 7:30pm
Join the Salisbury Pops for a spring concert of favorites!
General Public: $10
Alumni: $8
Senior: $5
Faculty/Staff: FREE
SU Student/Non-SU Student: FREE
| Buy Tickets |
| | Salisbury Pops - LIVESTREAM (M)
Tuesday, May 12
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
Join the Salisbury Pops for a spring concert of favorites!
LIVESTREAM: $5
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| | Salisbury Youth Orchestra (M)
Thursday, May 14
Holloway Hall, Jackson Family Auditorium, 7:30pm
General Public: $5
Senior: $3
Children: $3
Faculty/Staff: $3
SU Students: $3
Non-SU Students: $3
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| | Ephemera (T)
Thursday, June 4-Friday, June 5, 2025
Fulton Hall, Black Box Theatre, 7:30pm
Ephemera is a dance-theater performance created by Sophia Treanor, Deborah Black, and their late collaborator Mary Overlie, the founder of the Six Viewpoints method. At its core, Ephemera asks: Is this all there is? because Ephemera is a performance that locates the emergence of difference in the universe, the last section is created with a local cast of performers. Keep an eye out for a call for participants.
Q & A following the performance on June 5.
Free admission, but tickets are required. | Buy Tickets |
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