(Photo courtesy of Utah Symphony) Vocalist Capathia Jenkins performs as part of the Utah Symphony's "Patriotic Pops" concert, July 2, 2021, at Deer Valley's Snow Park Amphitheatre in Park City, as part of the 2021 Deer Valley Music Festival.
The 2021 Deer Valley Music Festival will look a lot like what the 2020 festival would have, if not for the coronavirus pandemic.
The Utah Symphony announced Tuesday that it would perform 10 concerts — eight of them rescheduled from this year’s canceled festival — next summer in the Snow Park Amphitheatre at the Deer Valley ski resort in Park City.
Deer Valley announced in mid-May that it was canceling all summer concerts — not only the Utah Symphony’s schedule but its own Deer Valley Concert Series — out of concern for spreading COVID-19.
Also on the symphony’s 2021 schedule: The legendary Motown group The Temptations, whose spring concerts with the Utah Symphony also were canceled; and Broadway star Kristin Chenoweth, who sang at the 2018 festival and returned to Utah that Christmas to perform with the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square.
An 11th concert, set for August 8, is yet to be announced. The festival’s chamber music performances at St. Mary’s Church and art galleries on Historic Main Street will be announced at a later date.
People who bought tickets for the 2020 festival shows, or the Temptations’ shows at Abravanel Hall, will be sent new tickets for the corresponding 2021 shows. New tickets are on sale now — and tickets for the Temptations and Chenoweth shows go on sale Tuesday at noon — through ArtTix outlets, or by phone at 801-533-NOTE (6683), or online at deervalleymusicfestival.org.
Two of the planned 2020 shows, headlined by The Doo Wop Project and Preservation Hall Jazz Band, were not rescheduled. Ticket buyers for those shows will receive a gift certificate, valid through August 31, 2021, for the full value of the ticket purchase — and can be applied toward future purchases, or donated as a tax-deductible contribution.
All shows start at 7:30 p.m. Unless otherwise noted, Conner Gray Covington — the Utah Symphony’s associate conductor, and the festival’s principal conductor — will conduct the symphony.
Here’s the schedule of 2021 Deer Valley Music Festival shows:
Friday, July 2 • “Patriotic Pops,” featuring vocalist Capathia Jenkins.
Friday, July 9 • Kool & the Gang.
Saturday, July 10 • Kristin Chenoweth. Mary-Mitchell Campbell conducts.
Friday, July 16 • Super Diamond (Neil Diamond tribute act). Rama Kolesnikow conducts.
Saturday, July 17 • The Temptations. T.C. Campbell conducts the second half of the show.
Friday, July 23 • “The Magical Music of Harry Potter.” Enrico Lopez-Yañez conducts.
Saturday, July 24 • “Take Me Home: The Music of John Denver,” starring Jim Curry. Lee Holdridge conducts.
Friday, July 30 • Little River Band.
Saturday, July 31 • 1812 Overture, with Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, performed by pianist Changyong Shin.
Saturday, August 7 • The Beach Boys.
Sunday, August 8 • To be announced.