Recording artist and songwriter Adam Cappa will kick off Spiritual Life Week at Bluffton University with a concert Sunday April, 10, at 8 p.m. in Yoder Recital Hall.
Cappa released his first, full-length studio album “The Rescue” in 2012 on BEC Recordings. He had Billboard success with his first single, “The Rescue,” which peaked at 22 on the Billboard Christian Chart and at seven on the Billboard Heatseakers Chart for new and developing artists.
Vocalists Mary Bender and Kimberly M. Meyer, tubist Samuel Black and trumpeter Aaron Johnson will present their Bluffton University junior recitals at 2:30 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in Yoder Recital Hall. A reception will be held in the lobby following the recital.
Bluffton University music education major Brittney Ries will present her senior recital at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9, in Yoder Recital Hall. A reception will follow in the lobby.
Ries is a soprano and plays trumpet. She is from Freeman, S.D. Her program includes three pieces for solo trumpet, as well as a brass quintet number with other university students.
Her vocal pieces include French, German, Italian and English music and a duet with Samuel Stucky, Moon Township, Pa. Pianist Ana Yoder Coulter is the accompanist.
Dr. Peter Terry, associate professor of information technology and music, will present the colloquium, "Thoughts on Designing a Gender and Culturally Neutral Music Theory Text for Bluffton University” on April 15.
His presentation is free and open to the public beginning at 4 p.m. in Centennial Hall’s Stutzman Lecture Hall.
Bluffton University will host the annual Riley Creek Festival from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16, in the Sommer Center.
Open to the public, the event is free except for lunch, which costs $9 for community members.
The festival will feature family-friendly inflatables, face painting, music, games and other activities, concluding with the traditional rubber duck race on Riley Creek. Rubber ducks will be sold for $1 each, with proceeds to benefit the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Duck race winners will receive prizes donated by local businesses.
