Foothills Music Festival
Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC
August, 1998
In 1997, Rachel Matthews, pianist, Ben Wolff, cellist and Elizabeth Oakes, violist founded the Foothills Chamber Music Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. For seven years it presented a celebrated series of summer performances, lectures and symposia at the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, the Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, and the Delta Fine Arts Center.
In 1998,
Article from Greensboro, NC "News and Record" August 5, 1999.
Winston-Salem Journal July 30, 2000
Article from "Winston-Salem Journal", July 30, 2000.
Beth Oakes participated in the festival, and many friends and family attended. The album below shows some of the attendees.
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Back: ?, ?, Bernice Matthews, Rudi and Barbara Wolff, Mel Oakes, Pat Oakes
Front: John Baldwin, Clara Park, Ben Woflf, Rachel Matthews, Elizabeth Oakes
FoothillsMusicFestival Pat, Bob and Lis Winter, John Modine, Sandy and Chip Heckman. Deron Neblett, Betsy Russell, Mardie, Mel, Rollin Russell, Sarah Oakes, Olive Garden, Winston-Salem.
Chip Heckman, Rollin Russell, Mardie Oakes, Betsy Russell,. Sandy Heckman, Sarah Oakes, Lois Winter, John Modine, Pat Oakes
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Front: Eugene Buck, Beth Oakes John Modine, Sarah Oakes, Mardie Oakes
Back: Pat Oakes, Lois Winter, Bob Winter, Sandy and Chip Heckman. Mel Oakes, Deron Neblett
Sisters, Sand Winter Heckman and Pat Winter Oakes, Reynolda House
Sisters, Sand Winter Heckman and Pat Winter Oakes
Mel Oakes, Betsy Russell, Rollin Russell, Beth Oakes, Pat Oakes
Pat photographing Beth and Eugene
Mel, Eugene, Beth, John, Mardie, Deron, Pat
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FoothillsMusicFestival14 Eugene Buck and Beth Oakes