Provided by Hylton Performing Arts Center
After two great fall performances, Hylton on the Hill will return this spring. Bring your own snacks and enjoy these outdoor performances in your own seating area, physically distanced from other audience members. Get all the answers about what to expect when you attend an event at Hylton on the Hill.
The spring season includes three in-person outdoor performances! Safe, physically distanced, and artistically satisfying.
Seán Heely Celtic Band
Saturday, May 29 at 4:00 p.m.
$25 Adult, $12.50 Youth through Grade 12
Don’t miss U.S. National Scottish Fiddle Champion Seán Heely and his band of All-Star Celtic musicians for an outdoor performance that will sweep audiences away to Scotland and Ireland. The outdoor stage will come alive with music when Heely joins forces with All-Ireland singing champion and Mason alum Kevin Elam, bouzouki player Beth Patterson, percussionist Lucas Ashby, and percussive dancer Agi Kovacs. From high-energy Celtic fiddle tunes to haunting Scots Gaelic melodies and folk ballads,
this concert has it all! Buy Tickets
Lua Project
Saturday, June 5 at 4 :00 p.m.
$25 Adult, $12.50 Youth through Grade 12
Lua Project invites the whole family to experience “Mexilachian Music,” the joyful confluence of original and traditional music from Mexico, Appalachia, and the Atlantic basin, featuring eclectic musical styles across cultures and times for its outdoor Hylton on the Hill performance. The sextet includes singer-songwriter Estela Knott; double bassist and composer Dave Berzonsky; virtuoso accordionist and multi-instrumentalist Matty Metcalfe, and fiddle and mandolin master Christen Hubbard, with Ivan Orr on keys,
and Craig Dougald on drums. Buy Tickets.
The Rock-A-Sonics
Saturday, June 12 at 4:00 p.m.
$25 Adult, $12.50 Youth through Grade 12
Slip into your blue suede shoes and travel back in time to 1957 when the King was perfecting his lip snarl and hip swivel. The Rock-A-Sonics play a versatile mix of old-school Rockabilly, vintage Country, and piano-pounding Rock ‘n’ Roll. Led by the gifted, young Willie Barry (vocals, guitar), the quintet includes Eric Hurtt (electric guitar, vocals); Louie Newmyer (upright bass, vocals); Tommy Bowes (drums, vocals); and Kim Reynolds (piano, steel guitar, saxophone). This band is right at home on an outdoor stage, having appeared at car shows, swing dances, clubs, and street festivals throughout the mid-Atlantic. Buy Tickets.
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Mason Opera: Acts of Love and Marriage
Saturday, April 24 at 8:00 p.m. and Sunday, April 25 at 3:00 p.m.
Merchant Hall | FREE
Talented George Mason University opera students will present an evening of works featuring The Telephone by Gian Carlo Menotti, Dream Lovers by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Act II of Le nozze di Figaro by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Get Tickets.
