Alamance County kicks off summer concert season in local parks
Summer music is spreading across Alamance County, from first-Friday shows in Graham to second-Friday concerts in Burlington City Park and a rotating countywide series.
Graham Recreation & Parks Department opened Alamance County’s summer concert season with live music planned across Graham, Mebane, Burlington, Gibsonville and Alamance Parks. The lineup gives families a built-in choice almost every week, with downtown shows, park concerts and rotating stops that keep the music close to home.
The countywide Musical Chairs Outdoor Countywide Summer Concert Series is a collaboration of Graham, Mebane, Burlington and Alamance Parks, with Alamance Arts helping organize the schedule. Graham describes the series as a way to give local and regional talent a welcoming outdoor stage while audiences spend summer evenings in the parks. Alamance Arts says it supports local artists and artist groups in Alamance County and surrounding areas, and says it has been helping enhance the arts for 70 years.
Graham’s longest-running summer tradition is Thursdays at Seven, which was established in 2003 and runs on the fourth Thursday of each month from May through September, with an additional September concert. The shows run from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on West Elm Street in downtown Graham, and the series mixes beach, country and top 40 music. Graham’s Musical Chairs concerts are set for first Fridays from May through August, with vendors on-site and a push to stop by local businesses before the show.
Burlington’s schedule gives concertgoers another set of dates to circle. Concerts in the Park are held on the second Friday of June through August, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., at the Jimmy Combs Stage in Burlington City Park. Burlington’s 4th Fridays run from May through September and add food trucks, community organizations and a beer garden downtown, giving the city two different ways to build an evening around live music.
The countywide Musical Chairs series rotates between Elon, Graham, Mebane and Burlington, spreading the performances across multiple communities instead of centering them in one place. That reach matters in Alamance County, where county government says about 179,000 residents live in 15 communities. For anyone mapping out summer evenings, the calendar now offers a string of park nights, downtown stops and outdoor stages that are distinctly local, but broad enough to serve the whole county.
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