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The Symphony’s cherished holiday tradition continues! Multi-talented vocalist, instrumentalist, and composer Andrew Lipke will return to Salina to conduct and perform. The concert will also feature festive song and dance from Iron Street Dance Company, Tamara Howe School of Dance, Salina Chorale, Kansas Wesleyan University Chorale, and Salina Symphony Youth Choir. Celebrate the season with us!

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Christmas Festival

Stiefel Theatre for the Performing Arts

Join us for an unforgettable evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Amos Lee. Known for his soulful voice and masterful blend of folk, rock, and soul influences, Amos Lee has captivated audiences worldwide with his emotionally charged songwriting and powerful live performances. This intimate concert offers a rare opportunity to experience the raw emotion behind his hits, from heartfelt stories of love and loss to personal growth.

Amos Lee with the Utah Symphony

Salt Palace Convention Center

Maestro Andrew Lipke and mezzo-soprano Mary Bichner are clearly smitten with Southwest Florida. They return with a special delivery of musical love letters on Valentine’s Weekend, with a performance designed to help you up your romance game. Swoon to tunes about love from the classics and Broadway, to radio hits you used to dedicate to your sweetheart in college, and even a few internet-famous love songs. This is the ultimate love letter to Southwest Florida and the people who love its orchestra.

You've Got Mail! Musical Love Letters

Florida SouthWestern State College

The Charlotte Performing Arts Center

Experience Steve Hackman's thrilling new blend of pop/R&B’s queen and classical music’s king as Beyoncé’s iconic repertoire is seamlessly interwoven with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. The symphonic world’s most joyful celebration of dance becomes the backdrop to fifteen of Beyoncé’s chart-topping hits—including “Girls,” “Crazy in Love,” “Single Ladies,” “Sorry,” “Halo,” “Cuff It,” and “Texas Hold ‘Em”—in this innovative new musical fusion. 

Beethoven X Beyoncé

Stifel Theatre

Following rave reviews from last year’s event, Andrew Lipke will return to the Stiefel Theatre stage to continue the conversation about how music transcends boundaries. Performing alongside the Salina Symphony String Quartet (featuring Maestro Segal), Andrew will unveil the deep-rooted connection between the history of the string quartet in both classical and contemporary music through an evening of storytelling and performances of rock works, including original music by Andrew himself. Don’t miss this exciting 2nd annual collaboration with the Stiefel Theatre

Rock & Roll and the String Quartet

Multitalented composer/arranger/storyteller/mezzo-soprano Mary Bichner debuts with the Southwest Florida Symphony this season, adding new twists to old yuletide favorites at the orchestra’s traditional Holiday Pops Program, playing at a theater near you! Mary’s breadth of vocal styles will transport audiences from Broadway to the great opera houses of the world, popular music clubs, and even to the warmth of carol singing in your living room, surrounded by family and friends. This performance, conducted by local Pops favorite Andrew Lipke, will surely add sparkle and joy to your holidays.

Holiday Pops

First Presbyterian Church of Bonita Springs

Tribby Arts Center

Experience “Rock Star Séance,” a pre-Halloween concert where the spirits of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and more are summoned through a live spirit board, bringing their greatest hits back to life.

Rock Star Séance

You’ve got to love someone who taught grade school, bartended and then — with talent and determination — went on to produce top selling albums and national tours. That someone is Amos Lee, whose popular blend of folk, rock, and soul have made him a favorite here in Nashville, and across the country. It’s been worth the wait and now you can hear him in a “back by popular demand” performance with the Nashville Symphony.

Amos Lee with the Nashville Symphony

Shermerhorn Symphony Center

From the bombastic and epic, to the folky and mystical, Get The Led Out (GTLO) have captured the essence of the recorded music of Led Zeppelin and brought it to the concert stage. The Philadelphia-based group consists of six veteran musicians intent on delivering Led Zeppelin live, like you’ve never heard before. Utilizing the multi-instrumentalists at their disposal, GTLO re-create the songs in all their depth and glory with the studio overdubs that Zeppelin themselves never performed. When you hear three guitars on the album…GTLO delivers three guitarists on stage. No wigs or fake English accents, GTLO brings what the audience wants…a high energy Zeppelin concert with an honest, heart-thumping intensity.

Get the Led Out

The Plaza Live

About</a>	<div>	<div>	Following on the huge success of "Beethoven v. Coldplay," "Brahms v. Radiohead" is conductor Steve Hackman's epic symphonic synthesis of Radiohead's album OK Computer and Johannes Brahms' First Symphony, utilizing a full 70-piece orchestra and three pop vocalists.The piece stays in the romantic sound world of Brahms, using only the instruments he would have used to debut his Symphony, but woven in, superimposed, and inserted are the melodies and music of Radiohead. At times we hear the melodies and words of Radiohead suspended over Brahms’ original music; at times we hear the orchestra playing the music of Radiohead but with the dense counterpoint of Brahms. Every combination is explored, and we constantly move from one to the other — but the piece is seamless and many times the audience is left wondering which is which, and how the combination was even possible.

Conductor, Guitarist, Vocalist

Andrew Lipke

Events

Past events

13 - 14 Dec, 2025

Christmas Festival · Salina Symphony

May 10, 2025

Amos Lee with the Utah Symphony · Utah Symphony

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