Dawn Upshaw ’82 will be performing at the indoor theatre at the upcoming Ravina Festival, the oldest outdoor music festival in the United States, with a series of outdoor concerts and performances held every summer from June to September.

A review of one of Dawn’s recent programs from the Washington Post reads:  “Upshaw has had an impressive career throughout a spectrum of new music, and she made a fine case for these songs. What is striking is that she has so little vocal presence apart from the music she sings. She can float a beautiful high note, but the singing that was called for her was a straightforward, almost childlike sound, and that’s what she delivered: a voice free of operatic allures, sometimes sounding taxed and a little frayed by the demands of the music. It was a kind of singer-songwriter approach from an artist who specializes in reinventing herself for the pieces that she champions and who was here very much one of the guys in a truly refreshing program.”

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