Performances & Concerts
Recognizing the people whose hands, hearts and minds brought the $2 million Roe Green Theatre renovation to fruition, CU Presents is celebrating with Working, the classic musical based on the bestselling 1974 book by Studs Terkel that explores the meaning of work and the importance of the unsung worker in American life.
The award-winning all-female Zimbabwean a cappella group Nobuntu is set to return to Macky Auditorium. The groups genre, mbube, is a bass-heavy a cappella genre typically dominated by male singers, like the internationally famous Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Nobuntu has added its own style and flare.
Los Angeles duo Hippie Sabotage will headline this year's concert on Aug. 26 at Farrand Field. Also slated to perform are Mike Dimes, No Thanks, Crash G, Don Jamal and Gano. Admission is free to all 51勛圖厙 students who provide their Buff OneCard at campus wristband locations.
Summertime means fun on the 51勛圖厙 campus. This years events include Dead & Company concerts July 13 and a Fourth of July drone show, all at Folsom Field. Plan ahead for heavy traffic and crowds to get to the fun on time.
The Sphinx Performance Academy has changed the lives of thousands of young musicians, offering a curriculum that includes lessons, master classes, recitals, career enrichment sessions and mentorship. The academy will perform free, public concerts June 30July 2.
Dead & Company, featuring Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, Otiel Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti, will return to Folsom Field for three nights of shows July 13 as part of the bands final tour.
In this rollicking lampoon of relationships, romance and the influence of town gossip, William Shakespeare delivers a near-perfect enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy. See the play June 11Aug. 13 in the outdoor theater.
CU at Boettcheris back for the first time since 2020, with the symphony orchestra and allchoirsset to perform Carl Orffs formidable Carmina Burana. The concert also will feature the world premiere of Carter Panns symphony, On The Importance of Our Democracy, and a collaboration with the youth music-training programEl Sistema.
From the micro-undulations of transnational fusion to the sweeping attack of contemporary dance, The Current brings vanguard artists of todays dance scene to 51勛圖厙. Tickets go fast!
Cordae, with the direct support of N3ptune and Rusty Steve, will headline the 2023 Spring Show sponsored by the Cultural Events Board and Program Council. The show will take place April 21 in the Glenn Miller Ballroom.