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Side/Show 2023

Side/Show is back! Join the Western Piedmont Symphony small ensembles for free, unique, live music experiences. Happening in downtown Hickory in partnership with the Downtown Hickory Fall Art Crawl.

Free

Asian female in traditional gown holds a pipa, a Chinese lute, on shoulders.

Masterworks: Other Worlds

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Experience music like no other with the Silk Road Ensemble’s Wu Man, the world’s foremost pipa artist, performing the cinematic Concerto No. 2 for Pipa and Orchestra by Jiping Zhao. Also featured on the opening Masterworks program: Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Suite and the triumphant Pines of Rome by Respighi.

$20 – $50

Cellist Brooks Whitehouse and Bassist Paul Sharpe with their instruments

Crossroads: Low and Lower

Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

If you like stringed instruments and comedy, you cannot miss this performance.

$28
Pianist Dmitri Vorobriev wearing a black shirt with a slightly blurry piano in the background.

Masterworks: Romance and Realism

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Presenting Rachmaninoff’s beloved romantic Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor and more.

$20 – $50

yellow background and red medieval drawing of a wheel of fortune for Carl Orff Camina Burana

Masterworks: Carmina Burana

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

One of classical music’s most spellbinding and immersive experiences, Carmina Burana is an epic, captivating choral masterpiece.

$20 – $50

Kelly Hall-Tompkins wearing a silver-gray tank top and black pants, holding her violin in front of a distant city skyline and trees.

Masterworks: Symphonie Fantastique

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

Acclaimed violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins returns to perform Bruch’s Concerto No. 1 for Violin in G minor.

$20 – $50

Crossroads: KAIA String Quartet

Drendel Auditorium, SALT Block 243 3rd Ave NE, Hickory, NC, United States

The KAIA String Quartet is an ensemble devoted to promoting the rich and colorful music of Latin America and more.

$28

four musicians sitting on a stair way, a white femal with red hair smiling, a mixed race man in a suite and tie smiling, a white male looking to the left in a suit and white shirt, a white female in red dress and brown hair

Crossroads: Hank, Pattie and The Current with WPS Maestro’s Quartet

The Premier 109 11th St NW, Hickory, United States

NEW LOCATION! North Carolina's Bluegrass-American juggernaut Hank, Pattie, and The Current. Hard-hitting bluegrass pickers who moonlight as symphonic classical musicians. Special guests the WPS Maestro's Quartet.

$20 – $28
crayon colors mural with bassoon musician standing in front holding wooden bassoon wearing plaid shirt and blue jeans

Masterworks: Landscapes

P.E. Monroe Auditorium, LRU 775 6th St NE, Hickory, NC, United States

The symphony’s flagship classical series concludes with two WORLD PREMIERES: Kachina, by Amber Ferenz, and a commission for orchestra of music inspired by the foothills region by American composer Daniel Perttu. Grofé’s picturesque Grand Canyon Suite closes the series.

$20 – $50