Megan Brown

From artistic director of Northwest Folklife to multi-instrumentalist to educator to social entrepreneur, it’s easy to ask, “What doesn’t Benjamin Hunter do?” Now, he serves as the final speaker of the 2022 Chautauqua Lecture Series

Scott Avett is no stranger to the Amphitheater, and for the Wednesday, Aug. 24 morning lecture, the musician and co-founder of The Avett Brothers finally brought the conversations he’s had with Senior Vice President and

Chautauquans love The Avett Brothers. This is an undisputed fact — after the band’s 2016 first performance on the grounds in 2016, they returned in 2018 for a show and a special Amphitheater screening of

In a small town in rural North Carolina, down a half-mile dirt road, Scott Avett lived with his family, some chickens, a few cows and no cable. “All we wanted to do was get a

As a two-time Grammy Award-winning musician, it only made sense for Chris Thile to step onto the stage of the Amphitheater for his lecture with mandolin in hand. In a lecture that was a mixture

Guitarist and vocalist Reggie Harris saw singer-songwriter Greg Greenway perform onstage in Cleveland before they officially met at Village Gate in Greenwich Village in the 1980s. “We fell into a conversation, discovered instantly that we

When accordionist Nathan Williams was a young teen — and before he received the attribute of accordionist — he worked with his brother, guitarist Dennis Paul Williams, at a grocery store in southern Louisiana. While

When someone looks at Misty Copeland, they see the first Black female Principal Dancer for the American Ballet Theatre, a mentor to young dancers, and the author of the New York Times bestselling memoir Life

At Luther College, tenor Paul Scholtz majored in English. “I got to college and was definitely doing a lot of singing: singing in choir, taking lessons,” he said. “But I didn’t want to do opera

Mezzo-soprano Kelly Guerra moved to New York City to live with her fiancé during the COVID-19 pandemic. And like everyone else, they found themselves with a lot of time on their hands; the two needed

Former and current students, lifetime Chautauquans, and people from all generations gathered last Friday evening in McKnight Hall to celebrate Marlena Kleinman Malas with a dinner and celebration to officially launch the Marlena Malas Scholarship

Before The House on Mango Street: The Opera, Sandra Cisneros had never before written a libretto, and considered working with a librettist to pen the opera version of her beloved 1984 novel. “I didn’t think

It takes ballet dancers, on average, a little less than 10 years to receive the training to become a professional dancer, but that was not the case for American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Misty Copeland.

After floating down the stairs and offering a Daily reporter some sparkling water, author and poet Sandra Cisneros needed to do her hair. She had already pinned her hair on top of her head, but

For stage director Marcus Shields, the most difficult aspect of directing is managing all the moving parts. “The challenge of directing is always the challenge of understanding all of the variables in any given situation

As a writer, Megan McArdle spends a lot of time thinking about words. She encouraged the audience at her 10:45 a.m. lecture Monday, Aug. 8 in the Amphitheater to do the same, and specifically contemplate