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MARCH 17, 2008

Summer 2008 Performances Announced!

Summer is coming! Wolf Trap's summer schedule has just been announced. Don't miss James Taylor, Emmylou Harris, Al Green, Donna Summer, Candide in Concert, Gladys Knight, Mark Knopfler, Crosby, Stills & Nash, The Black Crowes, Gipsy Kings, NSO @ Wolf Trap, Buddy Guy & George Thorogood, Kenny Rogers, UB40, and many, many more!
Tickets for these performances go on sale Saturday, March 29 at 10 am. More shows will be announced April 7.


2008 Summer ArtistsJune

8 Louisiana Swamp Romp
11 Trisha Yearwood
14 Gordon Lightfoot
15 Boz Scaggs
18 James Taylor
19 RAIN - The Beatles Experience
22 Emmylou Harris
24 George Benson
25 Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby
26 The Temptations & The Four Tops



July

2 Lyle Lovett in Concert
5 Donna Summer
6 NSO @ Wolf Trap with the Wolf Trap Opera Company - Candide in concert
7 Ani DiFranco
9 Chicago
10 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Tcheers for Tchaikovsky!
11 NSO @ Wolf Trap - An Evening with Kiri Te Kanawa
12 NSO @ Wolf Trap - This Way to Broadway with Marvin Hamlisch
13 Hootie & The Blowfish
15 Al Green
16 Earth, Wind & Fire
17 Indigo Girls
18 Pat McGee Band
19 Gladys Knight
22 Mark Knopfler
24 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Not the Messiah! (He's a Very Naughty Boy) 
Starring Eric Idle
25 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Wolf Trap is for Lovers
26 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Broadway ROCKS!
28 Crosby, Stills & Nash
29 Noche Flamenca
30 Hippiefest
31 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Beethoven's Best


August

1 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Rodgers & Hammerstein at the Movies 
2 NSO @ Wolf Trap - Dial “H” for Hitchcock
3 The Black Crowes
5 Face of America: Hawai`i Revisited
6 Jethro Tull
7 & 8 Gipsy Kings
9 Gretchen Wilson
10 B.B. King
12 Los Lonely Boys & Los Lobos
13 George Thorogood & Buddy Guy
14 Smokey Robinson
16 Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller & Victor Wooten
17 The Beach Boys
19 Bernstein: A Celebration! Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
20 Kenny Rogers & The Oak Ridge Boys
21 Chris Isaak
22 Eddie from Ohio & Great Big Sea
24 The Irish Tenors
25 UB40


Wolf Trap Opera CompanyAlcina, Wolf Trap Opera Company 2008

May 31 Happy Birthday to Two! Celebrating Bernstein & Bolcom Recital at The Barns
June 13, 15, & 17 Verdi's King for a Day
July 11, 13, & 15 Handel's Alcina
July 15 - 19 Instant Opera! at Children's Theatre-in-the-Woods
July 19 Tales from the Vienna Woods Recital at The Barns
August 15, 17, & 19 Strauss' Ariadne auf Naxos


The following performances are already on sale through Tickets.com:

Pilobolus
May 23 & 24 A Prairie Home Companion
May 29 -
June 1		 Riverdance
June 17 Pilobolus
June 20 H.M.S. Pinafore - New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
June 21
The Gondoliers - New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players
June 27 - 29 Rent
July 8 Paul Taylor Dance Company
August 29 -
September 7
Les Misérables

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