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Canandaigua Concert History
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1983 Season……………..page 1 2006 Season……………..page 21
1984 Season……………..pages 1-2 2007 Season……………..pages 21-22
1985 Season……………..pages 2-4 2008 Season……………..page 22
1986 Season……………..pages 4-5 2009 Season……………..page 23
1987 Season……………..pages 5-6 2010 Season……………..pages 23-24
1988 Season……………..pages 7-8 2011 Season……………..page 24
1989 Season……………..pages 8-9 2012 Season……………..page 25
1990 Season……………..pages 9-10 2013 Season……………..pages 25-26
1991 Season……………..pages 10-11 2014 Season……………..pages 26-27
1992 Season……………..page 12 2015 Season……………..pages 27-28
1993 Season……………..pages 12-13 2016 Season……………..page 28
1994 Season……………..pages 13-14 2017 Season……………..page 29
1995 Season……………..pages 14-15 2018 Season……………..page 29-30
1996 Season……………..page 15 2019 Season……………..page 30-31
1997 Season……………..pages 15-16 2020 Season…………….Covid-19 Virus
1998 Season……………..pages 16-17
1999 Season……………..pages 17-18
2000 Season……………..page 18
2001 Season……………..pages 18-19
2002 Season……………..page 19
2003 Season……………..pages 19-20
2004 Season……………..page 20
2005 Season……………..pages 20-21
Canandaigua Concert History 1
1983 Season
July 16 – RPO: All Beethoven Opening Night Gala
July 17 – RPO: Pop-Overs!
July 18 – Joni Mitchell
July 21 – Preservation Hall Jazz Band
July 23 – RPO: Russian Romantics
July 24 – RPO: Sousa Spectacular!
July 30 – RPO: 1812 Classical
July 31 – RPO: 1812 Pops!
August 6 – RPO: Three Great Romantics
August 7 – RPO: Dixieland Night
August 9 – Al Jarreau
August 13 – RPO: Vive La France!
August 14 – RPO: From the Classics to Broadway
August 19 – Diana Ross
August 20 – RPO: Viennese Classics
August 21 – RPO: E.T. and Friends
August 27 – RPO: Fantastique!
August 28 – RPO: An Evening of Kern and Gershwin
1984 Season
July 1 – Paul Anka
July 2 – Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band
July 4 – RPO: Marching Along with Mitch
July 6 – The Moody Blues
July 7 – RPO: Verdi’s Requiem Mass
July 8 – Henry Mancini with the RPO
July 14 – Judy Collins
July 15 – RPO: A Summer Rhapsody
July 20 – Grand Old Country Music with Minnie Pearl
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July 21 – RPO: Great Romantics!
July 22 – RPO: High Class Brass
July 26 – Lou Rawls and Nancy Wilson
July 27 – Peter, Paul & Mary
July 28 – RPO: All Tchaikovsky
July 29 – RPO: 1812 Pops!
July 30 – Happy Together Tour with The Turtles, The Association, Gary Puckett & The
Union Gap and Spanky and Our Gang
August 2 – Arranger’s Holiday with Oscar Peterson
August 3 – Arranger’s Holiday with Oscar Peterson
August 4 – RPO: Flute Fantasia
August 5 – RPO: Viennese Night
August 9 – Air Supply
August 11 – RPO: Viva Italia!
August 12 – The Kingston Trio with the RPO
August 17 – Joan Baez
August 18 – RPO
August 19 – Tony Bennett with the RPO
August 25 – RPO: Firebird!
August 26 – RPO: A Tribute to Rodgers & Hammerstein
September 1 – RPO: Beethoven Finale
September 2 – RPO: A Gershwin Celebration
September 9 – Rick Springfield with Corey Hart
1985 Season
June 14 – Emmylou Harris with Tom Rush
June 23 – Eric Clapton with Graham Parker
June 29 – The Charlie Daniels Band
July 4 – RPO: Fourth of July Fireworks Celebration
July 6 – RPO
July 7 – RPO: Broadway Favorites
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July 10 – Santana
July 12 – Happy Together Tour with The Turtles, The Grass Roots, The Buckinghams
and Gary Lewis & The Playboys
July 13 – RPO
July 14 – Ferrante & Teicher with the RPO
July 19 – Al Jarreau with David Sanborn
July 20 – RPO
July 21 – RPO: An Old-Fashioned Summer
July 26 – Chuck Mangione
July 27 – RPO: Meet the Philharmonic
July 28 – Teresa Brewer with the RPO
July 29 – The Temptations and The Four Tops
August 4 – Al Hirt with the RPO
August 5 – Liza Minnelli
August 6 – Liza Minnelli
August 8 – Liberace
August 9 – Liberace
August 10 – RPO: All Tchaikovsky
August 11 – RPO: 1812 Pops!
August 16 – Peter, Paul & Mary
August 17 – RPO
August 18 – Sid Caesar & Carol Lawrence with the RPO
August 22 – Paul Young with Nik Kershaw
August 23 – Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
August 24 – RPO
August 25 – RPO: Marching Along with Sousa
August 26 – The Pointer Sisters
August 28 – Perry Como
August 29 – Perry Como
August 30 – Arlo Guthrie and Pete Seeger
August 31 – RPO: All Beethoven
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September 1 – RPO: Ladies and Lovers
1986 Season
June 9 – The Pointer Sisters with El DeBarge
June 12 – Depeche Mode
June 13 – America and Stephen Stills
June 15 – Steppenwolf and The Guess Who
June 20 – Mike + The Mechanics
June 21 – Robert Palmer with Belinda Carlisle
June 25 – Julian Lennon
June 30 – Dick Fox’s Golden Boys of Bandstand with Frankie Avalon, Fabian and
Bobby Rydell
July 4 – RPO: July 4th Celebration
July 5 – RPO
July 6 – RPO: Salute to Duke Ellington
July 12 – RPO
July 13 – RPO: Some Enchanted Evening
July 14 – The Monkees with Herman’s Hermits, Gary Puckett & The Union Gap and The
Grass Roots
July 15 – The Moody Blues with The Fixx
July 17 – Joan Armatrading with Graham Nash
July 18 – Starship with The Outfield
July 19 – RPO
July 20 – Stars from the New York City Ballet with the RPO
July 23 – The Temptations and The Four Tops
July 24 – Peter, Paul & Mary
July 27 – RPO
July 28 – Big Band Sounds from the Summer of ’42 with Tex Beneke & His Orchestra,
The Modernaires with Paula Kelly Jr. and Helen Forrest
July 30 – Folk Festival with Glenn Yarbrough, The Limelighters, The Kingston Trio and
Melanie
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July 31 – Jean-Luc Ponty
August 2 – RPO
August 3 – RPO: Coney Island, Baby!–An Evening of Barbershop
August 4 – Billy Crystal with Leon Redbone
August 7 – RPO
August 8 – Mr. Mister with The Bangles
August 10 – Cleo Laine with the RPO
August 11 – Stevie Nicks with Peter Frampton
August 14 – RPO
August 17 – RPO: Great Classic Movie Themes
August 20 – Air Supply
August 21 – RPO: All Mozart
August 24 – Chuck Mangione with the RPO
August 28 – RPO
August 30 – John Fogerty with Bonnie Raitt
August 31 – RPO: An Evening of Lerner and Lowe
September 1 – Steve Winwood with Jimmy Cliff
September 6 – Ricky Skaggs
1987 Season
June 18 – Hank Williams Jr.
June 22 – The Beach Boys
June 26 – Duran Duran with Erasure
June 27 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 1) with Wynton Marsalis, The Temptations, Dizzy
Gillespie, Stanley Jordan, Kenny G and Cabo Frio
June 28 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 2) with Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble,
Stan Getz, Charlie Watts Orchestra, Branford Marsalis, Phyllis Hyman and The
Majestics
June 30 – Diahann Carroll & Vic Damone
July 3 – Miami Sound Machine
July 4 – RPO: Fourth of July Celebration with Fireworks
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July 5 – Rosemary Clooney with the RPO
July 7 – Whitney Houston with Jonathan Butler
July 10 – Al Hirt and Pete Fountain
July 11 – RPO: Maestro Elder’s Debut!
July 12 – RPO: Syncopated Clock and Other Favorites by Leroy Anderson
July 18 – RPO: All Beethoven
July 19 – Della Reese with the RPO
July 20 – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
July 23 – Santana
July 24 – Dan Fogelberg
July 25 – Stars from the New York City Ballet with the RPO
July 26 – Rita Moreno with the RPO
July 28 – Johnny Mathis and Henry Mancini
July 30 – Howie Mandel
August 1 – RPO: 1812 Festival with Fireworks
August 2 – RPO: 1812 Festival with Fireworks
August 3 – Willie Nelson & Family
August 8 – Sheena Easton
August 9 – RPO: Big Band at the Finger Lakes
August 12 – Night Ranger
August 14 – The Monkees with Weird Al Yankovic
August 16 – Robert Goulet with the RPO
August 18 – Al Jarreau and Chaka Khan
August 21 – Classic Superfest Tour with The Turtles, The Byrds, Mark Lindsay,
Herman’s Hermits and The Grass Roots
August 23 – RPO: A Salute to the Beatles
August 24 – Crosby, Stills & Nash with The Fabulous Thunderbirds
August 25 – Kenny Loggins
August 30 – RPO: A Broadway Finale
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1988 Season
June 17 – Folk Festival with Tom Rush, The Jug Band with Maria Muldaur and John
Sebastian, Christine Lavin and Livingston Taylor
June 28 – Bob Dylan with The Alarm
June 29 – The Rascals with Mitch Ryder
July 2 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 1) with Carlos Santana & Wayne Shorter, Diane
Reeves, Miles Davis, Lee Ritenour, Donald Byrd and Gamalon
July 3 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 2) with Lionel Hampton, Kenny G, The O’Jays, The
Fabulous Thunderbirds, Steve Gadd Gang and The Park Avenue Band
July 4 – RPO: Fourth of July Spectacular!
July 6 – Roger Whittaker
July 9 – RPO: Classics in the Air
July 10 – Herb Alpert with the RPO
July 16 – RPO: Musical Fantasy
July 17 – RPO: Dukes, Kings and Other Things
July 22 – John Denver
July 24 – RPO: 1812 Night
July 26 – Dan Fogelberg with The Magical Strings
July 28 – The Moody Blues with John Kilzer
July 30 – The Eliot Feld Ballet with the RPO
July 31 – The Eliot Feld Ballet with the RPO
August 1 – James Taylor
August 3 – Chicago with Henry Lee Summer
August 4 – Peter, Paul & Mary
August 6 – RPO: Virtuoso Performance
August 7 – RPO: Super Sounds of Stage and Screen
August 11 – Jean-Luc Ponty with The Yellowjackets
August 12 – Joe Cocker and America
August 13 – RPO: Classical Fireworks
August 14 – The Lettermen with the RPO
August 15 – Judy Collins and Chet Atkins
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August 18 – Kenny Loggins
August 20 – RPO: The Bucket Dance Theatre
August 21 – The Skycoasters with the RPO
August 23 – Dana Carvey with The Marshall Tucker Band
August 24 – Barry Manilow
August 27 – Gordon Lightfoot
August 28 – RPO: Bernstein on Broadway
August 31 – Bruce Hornsby & The Range with Melissa Etheridge
September 4 – The Beach Boys
1989 Season
June 10 – Steve Miller Band
June 16 – Anne Murray
June 26 – Julie Andrews
July 1 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 1) with B.B. King, Mel Torme, Spyro Gyra, Tony
Williams Quintet, Branford Marsalis and The Newport Jazz All-Stars
July 2 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 2) with David Sanborn, Larry Carlton, Illinois
Jacquet Big Band, Kent Jordan, Jimmy Smith Trio and Cassandra Wilson
July 4 – RPO: Mitch Miller’s Fourth of July Gershwin Extravaganza!
July 7 – Average White Band, War and Rare Earth
July 8 – Pete Seeger and Arlo Guthrie
July 9 – Maureen McGovern with the RPO
July 15 – RPO: Bastille Bicentennial
July 16 – RPO: Sousa at the Symphony
July 19 – The Everly Brothers
July 22 – RPO: An Evening in Vienna
July 23 – Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Elephant Show
July 25 – Bob Dylan with Steve Earle
July 26 – Carole King with Wayne Toups and Zydecajun
July 27 – Little Feat with Melissa Etheridge
July 29 – RPO: 1812 Spectacular!
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July 30 – RPO: 1812 Spectacular!
August 1 – Al Jarreau with Take 6
August 4 – The Doobie Brothers with The Fabulous Thunderbirds
August 5 – RPO: Bronze Star
August 6 – RPO: Silver Screen Celebration
August 8 – Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
August 10 – Debbie Gibson with Judson Spence
August 12 – RPO: Beethoven’s Ninth
August 13 – RPO: The Canadian Brass Takes Canandaigua!
August 14 – Johnny Mathis
August 15 – Don Henley with Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
August 18 – The Gipsy Kings
August 19 – Rick Astley with Martika
August 20 – RPO: Broadway Memories
August 23 – Jefferson Airplane with Hot Tuna
August 25 – Lou Gramm
August 26 – Dizzy Gillespie with the RPO
August 27 – RPO: Summer Season Finale
1990 Season
June 12 – Tracy Chapman with Johnny Clegg & Savuka
June 13 – Tears for Fears with Michael Penn
June 19 – Rickie Lee Jones and Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
June 27 – Wayne Newton
June 30 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 1) with Cleo Laine, Gerry Mulligan, Dr. John,
Dave Brubeck, Marlon Jordan and The Skycoasters
July 1 – Newport Jazz Festival (Day 2) with Lionel Hampton, George Benson, McCoy
Tyner, Chick Corea, Michael Camillo and Chet Catallo
July 3 – Steve Miller Band with Lou Gramm
July 4 – RPO: Fourth of July Family Spectacular!
July 6 – Garrison Keillor with Chet Atkins
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July 7 – RPO: Music from The Dance
July 8 – RPO: A Salute to the American West
July 10 – Roger Whittaker
July 13 – Joe Cocker and Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
July 14 – Don Henley with The Raindogs
July 15 – RPO: Porgy and Bess
July 21 – RPO: 1812 Gala
July 22 – RPO: 1812 Gala
July 28 – RPO: An Evening of Mozart and Vivaldi
July 29 – RPO: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
July 31 – Ricky Van Shelton and K.T. Oslin
August 2 – Sharon, Lois & Bram’s Elephant Show
August 3 – Bonnie Raitt with The Jeff Healey Band
August 4 – John Denver
August 10 – Richard Marx with Wilson Phillips
August 11 – The Moody Blues with Jimmy Ryser
August 12 – Fats Domino and Ben E. King
August 14 – Jimmy Buffett & The Coral Reefer Band with Zachary Richard
August 18 – RPO: Beethoven Triple
August 19 – Marvin Hamlisch with the RPO
August 23 – Kenny G and Michael Bolton
August 24 – Joan Baez with The Indigo Girls
August 25 – RPO
August 26 – RPO: Summer Season Finale
August 28 – Chicago
August 30 – Little Feat with John Hiatt
1991 Season
June 15 – Diana Ross
June 27 – The Doobie Brothers with Joe Walsh
June 30 – Dan Fogelberg with Tim Weisberg
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July 4 – RPO: Patriotic Pops
July 6 – RPO
July 8 – Steve Winwood with Joe Cocker
July 12 – Don Henley with Susanna Hoffs
July 13 – RPO
July 14 – RPO: A Salute to the Oscar
July 18 – Amy Grant with Kim Hill & Wes King
July 19 – Yes
July 20 – RPO: 1812 Gala
July 21 – RPO: 1812 Gala
July 23 – Gordon Lightfoot
July 27 – Newport Jazz Festival with Ray Charles, Diane Schuur, Spyro Gyra, Frank
Morgan and Gap Mangione
July 28 – Howie Mandel with Dennis Miller
July 30 – Whitney Houston with After 7
July 31 – Steve Miller Band with Eric Johnson
August 1 – Peter, Paul & Mary
August 7 – Huey Lewis & The News with The Subdudes
August 10 – RPO
August 11 – Henry Mancini with the RPO
August 13 – Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme
August 14 – Michael Bolton with Oleta Adams
August 15 – Bad Company and Damn Yankees with Tattoo Rodeo
August 16 – The Moody Blues with Neverland
August 17 – RPO
August 18 – Natalie Cole with the RPO
August 24 – RPO
August 25 – RPO: Peter Bay’s Musical Quiz
August 31 – Bonnie Raitt with Chris Isaak
September 2 – Sting with Special Beat
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1992 Season
June 24 – Crosby, Stills & Nash with Michael Hedges
June 25 – The Beach Boys and America
July 4 – RPO: July 4th Spectacular!
July 5 – Dionne Warwick with the RPO
July 11 – RPO: A Summer Night in Italy
July 12 – Chet Atkins with the RPO
July 17 – The Four Tops with the RPO
July 18 – RPO: 1812 Night
July 19 – The Manhattan Transfer with the RPO
July 28 – Santana with Phish
August 8 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer with Bonham
August 9 – RPO: All Gershwin
August 15 – RPO: Russian Flair
August 16 – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons with the RPO
August 22 – RPO: Brilliant Brass
August 23 – Mel Torme with the RPO
August 25 – Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
August 29 – RPO: Summer Season Finale
August 30 – Joe Cocker with The Neville Brothers
1993 Season
June 4 – Glenn Frey and Joe Walsh
June 19 – Steve Miller Band with Paul Rodgers
June 30 – Kenny G with Peabo Bryson
July 3 – Finger Lakes Jazz Festival with Diane Schuur, Ramsey Lewis, Michael Franks,
The Rippingtons, Stanley Jordan, Gap Mangione Big Band, Big Roots and Mike
Melitot
July 4 – RPO: An Old-Fashioned Fourth of July
July 10 – RPO: Some Romantic Evening
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July 11 – The Moody Blues with the RPO
July 13 – Barry Manilow
July 18 – RPO: Broadway Blockbusters
July 20 – The Everly Brothers with Dion
July 23 – RPO: 1812 Spectacular!
July 24 – Chuck Mangione
July 30 – Lorrie Morgan with Tracy Lawrence
August 1 – Stars of American Ballet
August 3 – Finger Lakes Blues Jam with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Eric Johnson and The
Alligator All-Stars featuring Koko Taylor, Lonnie Brooks and Junior Wells
August 11 – The Doobie Brothers with The Band
August 13 – Willie Nelson & Family
August 20 – Disney’s Symphonic Fantasies
August 23 – Foreigner with Joan Osborne and Little Willie
August 24 – Sade with Digable Planets
August 30 – Anne Murray
1994 Season
June 19 – Yes
June 29 – The Beach Boys and America
July 2 – RPO: Freedom Spectacular!
July 3 – Yanni
July 9 – Judy Collins with the RPO
July 14 – Phish
July 16 – RPO: Constellation of Classics
July 17 – Shining Time Station Live! Kellogg’s Kids Jamboree
July 21 – Art Garfunkel with Vince Gilbert
July 23 – RPO: Bravo Broadway!
July 26 – Jazz Explosion with Billy Cobham, Stanley Clarke, Deron Johnson, Najee and
Larry Carlton
July 27 – Stevie Nicks
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July 29 – Julio Iglesias
July 31 – Jackson Browne with John Hiatt and the Guilty Dogs
August 5 – John Denver
August 14 – The Magic Rose: A Tale of Beauty and the Beast
August 17 – Bonnie Raitt with Bruce Hornsby
August 18 – Van Cliburn and the Moscow Philharmonic
August 19 – John Mellencamp with Texas
August 20 – B.B. King Blues Festival with B.B. King, Little Feat, Dr. John and A Tribute
to Muddy Waters
August 21 – Harry Connick Jr.
September 2 – Raffi
September 4 – Traffic
1995 Season
June 10 – Bonnie Raitt with Charles Brown and Ruth Brown
June 22 – Phish
June 29 – Jesus Christ Superstar
July 1 – RPO: Star Spangled Sounds
July 3 – Barenaked Ladies and Billy Bragg
July 7 – Hootie and the Blowfish with Dillon Fence
July 8 – RPO: The Magic of Mozart
July 15 – RPO: Sunset Rhapsody
July 18 – Can’t Stop Rockin’ with REO Speedwagon, Fleetwood Mac and Pat Benatar
July 19 – Carly Simon and Daryl Hall & John Oates
July 22 – RPO: The Stars of Broadway
July 27 – Brooks & Dunn with Joe Diffie and Wade Hayes
July 28 – Peter, Paul & Mary
July 29 – RPO: Beloved Beethoven
August 4 – Mary Chapin Carpenter with The Mavericks
August 5 – Flash Cadillac with the RPO
August 6 – The Allman Brothers Band with Rusted Root
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August 9 – Barry Manilow
August 25 – Dave Matthews Band with Dionne Farris
August 27 – Soul Asylum with The Jayhawks, Victoria Williams and Matthew Sweet
1996 Season
June 19 – The Moody Blues with the RPO
July 6 – Glenn Miller Orchestra
July 9 – Liza Minnelli and Dudley Moore
July 12 – Ladies of Country with Lorrie Morgan, Pam Tillis and Carlene Carter
July 13 – RPO: A Western Extravaganza
July 20 – RPO: A Classic Spectacular
July 27 – RPO: An American Celebration
July 28 – Natalie Merchant with Corey Harris
July 30 – Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra
August 3 – George Carlin with Dennis Blair
August 9 – A New Orleans Evening with Pete Fountain, Al Hirt and Preservation Hall
Jazz Band
August 18 – Neil Young & Crazy Horse with Jewel and The Afghan Whigs
August 22 – The Monkees
August 23 – House of Blues Tour with Buddy Guy, Joe Cocker, The Fabulous
Thunderbirds, The Radiators and The Gales Brothers
August 25 – k.d. lang
August 26 – Michael Bolton
August 27 – The Cranberries with Cracker
August 29 – Tori Amos
August 31 – Styx with Kansas
1997 Season
June 5 – Dave Matthews Band with Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
June 10 – The Indigo Girls with Ulali
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June 25 – G3 Tour with Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Kenny Wayne Shepherd and Robert
Fripp
July 2 – Barenaked Ladies
July 3 – Bush with The Jesus Lizard and Souls
July 5 – The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
July 6 – Anne Murray
July 7 – No Doubt with The Selecter and MXPX
July 12 – RPO: Symphonic Masterworks
July 19 – RPO: An American Celebration
July 20 – Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan, Tracy Chapman, The Cardigans, Fiona
Apple, Paula Cole, Holly Cole, Victoria Williams, Autour de Lucie, Lori Carson
and Alisha’s Attic
July 26 – RPO: Classical Fireworks
August 2 – Legends of New Orleans with Preservation Hall Jazz Band, Al Hirt and Pete
Fountain
August 3 – John Denver
August 9 – Barry Manilow
August 10 – Mary Chapin Carpenter with Jim Lauderdale
August 15 – James Taylor & His Band
August 24 – Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers and Big Head Todd & The Monsters
September 1 – Jewel
1998 Season
June 1 – WNVE 3rd Birthday Bash with Everclear, Fastball, Marcy Playground, Creed,
Blink-182, Fuel, God Lives Underwater, Stabbing Westward and Feeder
July 4 – Yes with The Alan Parsons Project
July 9 – The Indigo Girls with Michelle Malone
July 10 – Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Bonnie Raitt, Me’shell
Ndegeocello, Heather Nova, Tracy Bonham, Garrison Starr, Imani Coppola, Paris
Hampton and Dayna Manning
July 11 – RPO: An American Celebration
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July 12 – Roger Daltrey with the British Rock Symphony
July 18 – RPO: Absolutely Brahms
July 25 – RPO: Classics’ Greatest Hits
July 26 – H.O.R.D.E. Tour with Blues Traveler, Barenaked Ladies, Paula Cole, Alana
Davis, Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals, Marcy Playground, Chris Stills,
Smoke the Prophet, The Fool and Gov’t Mule
August 1 – RPO: Opera Favorites Under the Stars
August 6 – Tori Amos with The Delvins
August 7 – Peter, Paul & Mary
August 8 – Kenny Rogers with Mario & Daniel
August 14 – Deep Purple with Emerson, Lake & Palmer and Dream Theater
August 25 – Joe Cocker with Marc Cohn
September 6 – Tony Bennett
1999 Season
June 2 – Santana with Ozomatli
June 27 – RPO: Piano Spectacular!
July 1 – Nickelodeon’s All That Music and More Festival with 98 Degrees, Monica, 3rd
Storee, Tatyana Ali, No Authority and Aaron Carter
July 3 – RPO: A Star-Spangled Celebration
July 9 – Alabama
July 10 – Chicago and The Doobie Brothers
July 18 – Duke Ellington Orchestra
July 24 – RPO: Viva Italia!
July 26 – Barenaked Ladies with The Beautiful South
July 31 – RPO: Russian Fireworks
August 1 – Lilith Fair with Sarah McLachlan, The Pretenders, Mya, Me’shell
Ndegeocello, Aimee Mann, Tracy Bonham, Lamb, Kendall Payne and Myra
Gordon
August 2 – Steve Miller Band and George Thorogood & The Destroyers
August 3 – Dave Matthews Band with Boy Wonder
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August 11 – Hootie and the Blowfish with Train
August 15 – Kenny Rogers and Anne Murray
August 21 – Olivia Newton-John with Jim Brickman
August 24 – Barry Manilow
August 28 – Goo Goo Dolls with Sugar Ray and Frog Pond
September 1 – The Moody Blues
2000 Season
June 27 – Poison with Dokken, Cinderella and Slaughter
July 1 – RPO: All-American Swing & Popular Song
July 6 – Grease
July 8 – RPO: A Tour of the Centuries
July 15 – RPO: Bravo Broadway!
July 19 – Bob Dylan and Phil Lesh & Friends
July 22 – RPO: Classical Fireworks
July 28 – Jethro Tull with Joe Bonamassa
July 29 – Randy Travis
August 3 – The Moody Blues
August 6 – Mötley Crüe with Megadeth
August 12 – Johnny Mathis
August 26 – Peter, Paul & Mary
September 2 – B.B. King Blues Festival with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, Susan Tedeschi
and Tommy Castro
September 3 – Tony Bennett & Diana Krall
2001 Season
July 1 – RPO: An American Salute
July 7 – RPO: Bravo Broadway!
July 14 – RPO: Classical Blockbusters
July 21 – The String Cheese Incident with Junior Brown
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July 24 – Phil Lesh & Friends with The Les Claypool Frog Brigade
August 5 – RPO: Russian Fireworks
August 9 – Doo Wop Revue with Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge, The Coasters,
The Platters, The Elegants, The Marvelettes and The Chiffons
August 11 – Natalie Cole
August 24 – Tony Bennett & k.d. lang
September 2 – B.B. King Blues Festival with B.B. King, Buddy Guy, John Hiatt and the
Goners and Tommy Castro
2002 Season
June 13 – Harry Connick Jr.
June 29 – RPO: An American Celebration
July 6 – RPO: Movie Magic
July 10 – Travis Tritt
July 13 – RPO
July 20 – Barry Manilow
July 28 – Duke Jupiter with Perfect World
August 2 – Daniel Rodriguez with the RPO
August 3 – Melissa Etheridge with Garrison Starr
August 4 – RPO: Classical Fireworks
August 14 – Bonnie Raitt and Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
August 16 – Vince Gill and Trisha Yearwood
August 20 – B.B. King Blues Festival with B.B. King, George Thorogood & The
Destroyers, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Joe Bonamassa
August 31 – Sheryl Crow with Jars of Clay
2003 Season
July 12 – RPO: Classics Under the Stars
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July 17 – Wham-A-Lama Ding Dong Doo Wop Revue with Johnny Maestro & The
Brooklyn Bridge, Charlie Thomas’ Drifters, Shirley Alston Reeves, Danny & The
Juniors and Little Peggy March
July 19 – RPO: Summer Swing & Jazz
July 26 – RPO: All-American Spectacular!
August 2 – RPO: Fireworks Finale!
August 3 – Finger Lakes Chorale Festival with the RPO
August 17 – Tori Amos and Ben Folds
2004 Season
June 24 – Harry Connick Jr.
July 2 – Lyle Lovett
July 10 – RPO: Royal Fireworks
July 17 – RPO: America’s Favorites
July 19 – Crosby, Stills & Nash
July 24 – RPO: Rhapsody & Ragtime
July 25 – Finger Lakes Chorale Festival with the RPO
July 31 – RPO: 1812 Overture with Fireworks and Cannons
August 1 – Alicia Keys with Jimmie Highsmith Jr.
August 14 – The Beach Boys
August 24 – Norah Jones and the Handsome Band
2005 Season
July 6 – The Moody Blues
July 9 – RPO: Olga Rachs
July 16 – RPO: The Sounds of New Orleans
July 22 – The Allman Brothers Band with Gavin DeGraw
July 23 – RPO: Let’s Go to the Movies
July 28 – Celtic Woman
July 30 – RPO: Russian Fireworks
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August 18 – REO Speedwagon and Styx
August 27 – ZZ Top with Donna the Buffalo and Junior Brown
2006 Season
July 8 – RPO: Beethoven’s Ninth
July 10 – The String Cheese Incident and Bob Weir & RatDog
July 14 – Bonnie Raitt with Keb’ Mo’
July 15 – RPO: The Fabulous 40s
July 17 – Celtic Woman
July 21 – Johnny Mathis
July 22 – RPO: Symphonic Rock–Music of the Eagles
July 29 – RPO: 1812 Overture with Fireworks and Cannons
August 10 – Hippiefest with Rare Earth, Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals, Country Joe
McDonald, Mountain featuring Leslie West and Corky Laing, Mitch Ryder, The
Lovin’ Spoonful, Badfinger featuring Joey Molland, Melanie, Canned Heat and
Denny Laine
August 19 – Chris Botti with Gap Mangione
August 20 – The Beach Boys with The Skycoasters, Perfect World and Herb Gross and
the Invictas
August 25 – Big & Rich with Cowboy Troy
2007 Season
June 15 – Glenn Beck
July 1 – Jeff Corwin
July 8 – RPO: Beethoven’s Fifth
July 9 – Diana Krall and Chris Botti
July 14 – RPO: Cool Blues
July 19 – Clay Aiken with the RPO
July 21 – RPO: 100 Years of Broadway
July 27 – The Moody Blues
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July 28 – RPO: 1812 Overture with Fireworks and Cannons
July 31 – Liza Minnelli
August 3 – Alison Krauss & Union Station
August 8 – O.A.R. with Augustana
August 15 – Eddie Money, John Waite and Lou Gramm
August 26 – Willie Nelson & Family with Ricky Skaggs
2008 Season
June 7 – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
June 8 – The Laurie Berkner Band with Susie Lampert and Adam Bernstein
June 21 – Lynyrd Skynyrd
July 11 – Steely Dan with Sam Yahel
July 12 – RPO: The Planets–Hubble’s View
July 13 – Melissa Etheridge
July 15 – Stone Temple Pilots with Secret Machines
July 19 – RPO: Mambo!
July 22 – Kenny Chesney with LeAnn Rimes
July 25 – Gary Allan and Sara Evans with Luke Bryan
July 26 – RPO: Hoedown! The RPO Goes West!
July 27 – Ronan Tynan
August 2 – RPO: Fanfares and Fireworks
August 3 – Sheryl Crow with James Blunt and Toots & The Maytals
August 7 – John Fogerty
August 10 – Kathy Griffin
August 19 – Bob Dylan and His Band
August 20 – Kid Rock with Rev Run and Back Door Slam
August 22 – The Allman Brothers Band and Bob Weir & RatDog
August 24 – Wegmans Reggae Fest with UB40, Matisyahu, Maxi Priest, Culture and
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
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2009 Season
June 2 – David Byrne with Ani DiFranco
June 10 – Crosby, Stills & Nash
June 30 – The Offspring with Dropkick Murphys and Frank Turner
July 2 – Bad Company and The Doobie Brothers
July 3 – RPO: Red, White and Boom!
July 8 – Judas Priest with Whitesnake and Pop Evil
July 16 – Tim McGraw
August 1 – Jackson Browne with Steve Earle
August 2 – Jason Mraz with G. Love and Special Sauce and K’Naan
August 10 – John Legend with India.Arie and Vaughn Anthony
August 11 – Blondie and Pat Benatar with The Donnas
August 22 – The Allman Brothers Band and Widespread Panic
September 6 – Counting Crows with Michael Franti & Spearhead and Augustana
2010 Season
June 13 – Sugarland with Luke Bryan and Danny Gokey
June 17 – Jethro Tull with Procol Harum
June 29 – Phish
June 30 – Yes and Peter Frampton
July 3 – RPO: Red, White and Boom!
July 6 – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
July 8 – Zac Brown Band
July 9 – The Moody Blues
July 10 – RPO: The Swingin’ Sixties and Seventies
July 11 – Weezer
July 21 – Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
July 23 – The Flaming Lips with The Black Keys
July 24 – RPO: Cirque de la Symphonie
July 29 – Willie Nelson & Family with The Levon Helm Band
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August 6 – Carnival of Madness with Shinedown, Chevelle, Puddle of Mudd, Sevendust
and 10 Years
August 7 – Maroon 5 with VV Brown
August 11 – George Thorogood & The Destroyers, The Robert Cray Band and The
Fabulous Thunderbirds
August 12 – Yo-Yo Ma with The Silk Road Ensemble
August 13 – Sheryl Crow with Colbie Caillat
August 14 – Barenaked Ladies with Ben Kweller and Angel Taylor
August 22 – REO Speedwagon and Pat Benatar with Tyler Bryant
August 28 – My Morning Jacket with The New Pornographers
August 29 – Jason Aldean with Uncle Kracker
2011 Season
June 4 – Ray LaMontagne and the Pariah Dogs with Brandi Carlile and The Secret
Sisters
June 9 – Miranda Lambert with Justin Moore and Josh Kelley
July 2 – RPO: Red, White and Boom!
July 7 – Yes and Styx with Shane Alexander
July 9 – RPO: The Music of John Williams–Star Wars, Harry Potter and More!
July 23 – Steely Dan with Sam Yahel
July 26 – Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir
July 27 – Kid Cudi with Chip Tha Ripper
August 3 – Girl Talk and Wiz Khalifa with Big Sean and Chevy Woods
August 6 – O.A.R. with SOJA and Kelley James
August 9 – Bob Dylan and His Band with Leon Russell
August 13 – Guster and Jack’s Mannequin with Ra Ra Riot
August 20 – Tony Bennett
August 24 – Kenny Chesney with Billy Currington and Uncle Kracker
August 25 – Lynyrd Skynyrd and The Doobie Brothers
August 26 – B.B. King and Buddy Guy
August 27 – Lyle Lovett and His Large Band
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2012 Season
June 1 – Steve Winwood with Michael Franti & Spearhead
June 3 – Lady Antebellum with Darius Rucker and Thompson Square
June 12 – Crosby, Stills & Nash
June 13 – Yanni
June 26 – Sarah McLachlan with the RPO
June 29 – Tim McGraw with Dierks Bentley and Kip Moore
June 30 – RPO: Patriotic Pops
July 1 – Demi Lovato with Hot Chelle Rae
July 6 – Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir
July 7 – Last Summer on Earth with Barenaked Ladies, Blues Traveler, Big Head Todd
& The Monsters and Cracker
July 14 – The B-52s and Squeeze
July 15 – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
July 19 – Jim Gaffigan
July 21 – Meat Loaf with Katrina
July 28 – RPO: Music of Queen–A Rock and Symphonic Spectacular
August 2 – Snoop Dogg with Yelawolf
August 7 – Mumford & Sons with Dawes and Aaron Embry
August 11 – The Dukes of September Rhythm Revue featuring Donald Fagen, Michael
McDonald and Boz Scaggs
August 15 – Journey with Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and Loverboy
August 18 – Eric Church with Robert Earl Keen
August 24 – Train with Mat Kearney and Andy Grammer
August 29 – The Fray and Kelly Clarkson with Carolina Liar
September 2 – The Fresh Beat Band
2013 Season
May 30 – Luke Bryan with Florida Georgia Line and Cole Swindell
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June 7 – The Lumineers with Kids and J. Roddy Walston and the Business
June 22 – Kings of the Mic Tour with LL Cool J, Public Enemy, Ice Cube and De La
Soul
July 3 – RPO: Celebrate America
July 6 – GIGANTOUR with Megadeth, Black Label Society, Device, Hellyeah, Newsted
and Death Division
July 13 – Fun. with Tegan and Sara
July 16 – Daughtry and 3 Doors Down with Halestorm and Bad Seed Rising
July 17 – Def Leppard with Slash featuring Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators
July 19 – Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir
July 20 – Steely Dan with Deep Blue Organ Trio
July 26 – The Avett Brothers with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
July 27 – Under the Sun Tour with Smash Mouth, Sugar Ray, Gin Blossoms, Vertical
Horizon and Fastball
July 31 – The Black Crowes and Tedeschi Trucks Band with The London Souls
August 1 – Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion
August 9 – Keith Urban with Little Big Town and Dustin Lynch
August 16 – Carnival of Madness with Shinedown, Papa Roach, Skillet, In This Moment
and We as Human
August 21 – Kenny Chesney with Eli Young Band and Kacey Musgraves
August 25 – Ke$ha with Mike Posner and Semi Precious Weapons
2014 Season
May 23 – Death Cab for Cutie with The Head and the Heart and Built to Spill
May 30 – Tim McGraw with Kip Moore and Cassadee Pope
June 1 – Ray LaMontagne with Jason Isbell and The Belle Brigade
June 2 – SKRILLEX with DJ Snake, What So Not and Milo & Otis
June 7 – Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
June 18 – Diana Ross
June 20 – Dierks Bentley with Cole Swindell and Frankie Ballard
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June 21 – Willie Nelson & Family and Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry
Douglas with Kacey Musgraves
June 25 – Peter Frampton and The Doobie Brothers with Matthew Curry
July 3 – RPO: Salute to America
July 6 – Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo and Rick Springfield with William Beckett
July 9 – Foreigner, Styx and Don Felder
July 15 – Phish
July 19 – Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
July 20 – RPO: Classical Mystery Tour–The Music of the Beatles
July 22 – Ben Folds with the RPO
August 1 – Luke Bryan with Clare Dunn
August 17 – Hunter Hayes with Dan + Shay and Sam Hunt
August 22 – Josh Groban with the CMAC Symphony Orchestra
August 29 – Lady Antebellum with Billy Currington and Joe Nichols
2015 Season
May 30 – George Thorogood & The Destroyers and Brian Setzer’s Rockabilly Riot with
Davy Knowles
June 6 – Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion
June 7 – Ed Sheeran with Rixton
July 3 – RPO: Patriotic Salute
July 4 – The Tragically Hip
July 8 – Kenny Chesney with Jake Owen and Chase Rice
July 11 – Peter Frampton and Cheap Trick
July 12 – James Taylor and His All-Star Band
July 29 – The Avett Brothers with Shakey Graves and Madisen Ward and the Mama
Bear
July 31 – Bryan Adams
August 2 – Grace Potter with Madaila
August 4 – Sublime with Rome with Rebelution, Pepper and Mickey Avalon
August 13 – REO Speedwagon with Teagan and the Tweeds
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August 15 – Santana
August 21 – Gregg Allman and The Doobie Brothers with Pat Simmons Jr.
August 30 – Idina Menzel
September 3 – Dierks Bentley with Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae and Canaan Smith
2016 Season
June 4 – Jackson Browne
June 8 – Death Cab for Cutie & CHVRCHES with Pure Bathing Culture
June 10 – Kenny Chesney
June 14 – Ellie Goulding with Matt & Kim
June 24 – Keith Urban with Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris
June 25 – Weezer and Panic! At the Disco with Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness
July 2 – Chris Young with Cassadee Pope and LANco
July 6 – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
July 9 – RPO
July 12 – Bob Dylan with Mavis Staples
July 16 – Yanni
July 21 – Chris Stapleton with Brandy Clark
July 22 – The Old Crow Medicine Show & Brandi Carlile Revue with Dawes
July 23 – Ray Lamontagne with The Arcs
July 29 – Jeff Beck & Buddy Guy
July 30 – Lyle Lovett and His Large Band & Emmylou Harris
August 4 – Jerry Garcia with Warren Haynes
August 12 – Don Henley
August 24 – Train with Andy Grammar
September 3 – “Weird Al” Yankovic
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2017 Season
June 4 – Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds
June 10 – Diana Krall
June 17 – Elvis Costello & The Imposters with DAWES
June 21 – Peter Frampton & Steve Miller Band
June 29 – Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
July 2 – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
July 8 – John Mellencamp
July 15 – Idina Menzel
July 16 – The Who
July 23 – Sam Hunt – 15 in a 30 Tour
July 28 – Hans Zimmer
July 29 – Rod Stewart with special guest Cyndi Lauper
August 15 – Jethro Tull
August 18 – Santana
August 24 – Luke Bryan
August 30 – Thomas Rhett
September 2 – The Avett Brothers
2018 Season
June 23 – John Fogerty & ZZ Top
June 26 – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
June 30 – Roger Daltry
July 7 – RPO
July 8 – Keith Urban
July 10 – Tedeschi Trucks Band
July 20 – Jason Isbell
July 21 – Phil Lesh & the Terrapin Family
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July 25 – Arctic Monkeys
August 5 – David Byrne
August 6 – Beach Boys
August 8 – The Piano Guys
August 10 – Alan Jackson
August 24 – Brett Eldredge
August 31 – Steve Martin & Martin Short
2019 Season
June 7 – The Avett Brothers
June 9 – Brooks & Dunn with High Valley
June 14 – Bush with Our Lady Peace
June 18 – Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
June 20 – Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit with Father John Misty
June 22 – Michael McDonald and Chaka Khan
June 29 – Rain [Tribute to the Beatles]
July 5 – Third Eye Blind with Ra Ra Riot
July 6 – Little Big Town with Walker Hayes
July 12 – Luke Bryan
July 13 – Lynyrd Skynyrd
July 16 – Tedeschi Trucks Band
July 21 – Rob Thomas
July 23 – Lionel Richie
July 25 – RPO “Grease”
July 27 – Chris Stapleton with Margo Price and Marcus King Band
August 2 – Train & The Goo Goo Dolls with Allen Stone
August 6 – Sarah McLachlan with the RPO
August 7 – Alice Cooper
August 9 – Hootie & The Blowfish with Barenaked Ladies
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August 10 – Jason Aldean & Kane Brown
August 15 – Hall & Oates
August 22 – Beach Boys
August 27 - Pentatonix