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 UtahXL » Utah Festivals » Moab Music Festival

Moab Music Festival

Welcome to one of the most popular festival in the State of Utah - Moab Music festival. This festival is well known for its distinctive programming. Musicians from around the world meet amidst the scenic red rock canyon lands of Moab in Utah. Every year music buffs and musicians from across the country of Utah and around the world come to Moab Music festival for performing and listening to the musical masterpieces, both old and new. The perfect backdrop of nature with its most spectacular landscape masterpieces of the red rock canyon-lands adds glamour to the event.



The award-winning Moab Music festival offers concerts of vocal music, classical chamber music, traditional folk music, creations of living composers and jazz performed by renowned national artists, and classical chamber music. The musical performances of the Moab Music festival take place in outdoor and indoor venues that ranges from the banks of the Colorado River to the historical Moab Star Hall. In the year 2007, the Moab Music festival ran from August 30-September 15. This is the 15th season of this popular Moab festival.



Now, let's delve deep into the history of Moab Music festival. This musical festival was founded in 1992 by Leslie Tomkins and Michael Barrett, professional musicians based in New York who loved the red rock country of southeastern Utah. The creation of the festival by these two musicians was like allowing the two major passions in their lives to combine together - love for performing great music coupled beautifully with the stunning beauty of the Moab area. From its very inception, the festival has remained true to Leslie and Michael's actual dream and desire: to combine world class music performances with outstanding landscape of the Utah canyon-lands.

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