Moab Music Festival

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Written By Angelika Brewer

Music In Nature’s Concert Hall

New artistic director of Moab Music Festival, award-winning, violinist, Tessa Lark, performs at a “secret” hike location. Photo: Richard Bowditch

MOAB, UT — The Moab Music Festival (MMF) is celebrating its 33rd season and the appointment of award-winning violinist, Tessa Lark, as its new artistic director, while honoring the legacy of co-founding directors Emeriti Leslie Tompkins and Michael Barrett. The festival continues through Sept. 12, bringing a unique combination of concerts, exhibitions, and events to the spectacular landscape of Southern Utah. 

Notable performers and events are taking place over the three-week festival, including features by global Latin fusion band, Triple Cortado, and a premiere by Composer-in-Residence, Viet Chong. Guitarist Frank Vignola, Grammy-nominated mandolinist Sierra Hull, pianist Inon Barnatan, and seven-time Grammy-winning bassist and composer Edgar Meyer make their festival debuts. Lark herself will also take the stage to perform in the programs. 

Moab Music Festival concert experiences at various locations. Photos by Richard Bowditch courtesy of Moab Music Festival

A trip to MMF has the attributes you may expect to find at a music festival, coupled with the scenery and adventure that is special to Moab. Natural red rock amphitheaters and the current of the timeless Colorado River make the perfect backdrop for MMF’s Music Hikes to hidden outdoor venues and Grotto Concerts. Visitors can also experience a floating concert on an open-air river boat, a musical rafting excursion featuring Lark and James Beard Foundation Award Winner and New York Times Bestselling cookbook author and chef, Kenji López-Alt, and more. 

More information, the festival schedule, and tickets available to purchase can be found at https://moabmusicfest.org

Angelika Brewer

Angelika Brewer is an award-winning poet, public speaker, journalist and a creativity enthusiast from Ogden, Utah. She finds artistry where it is hiding and advocates for its continuation, which contributes to her love of writing about local, upcoming artists. She loves her family and her animals, traveling and starting a new craft every two weeks, but only sometimes completing one.

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