Snake River Music Festival concerts have always been a center for the community. All of our concerts include pre-concert receptions hosted by volunteers, a tradition started in its inaugural year. Many devoted audience members will remember past director Kikken Miller as the “Chamber Maid,” the life of the concert who brought together new and long-term audiences members, made everyone look forward to each concert, and encouraged them to generously give to support the concerts they grew to love. 20+ years later, musicians and audience members continue to engage in such wonderful conversation it’s difficult to pull everyone into the hall for the concert to begin! This quality interaction has allowed Snake River to develop a devoted audience and donor base that has supported Snake River for over twenty years.

In 2009 and 2010, Snake River participated in Scale the Summit, a week-long music camp for pre-college students established by Summit County Local Janet Harriman. Snake River became associated with Scale the Summit through Charles Wetherbee, Snake River’s founder. It was due to Charles and his quartet, Carpe Diem String Quartet, that Scale the Summit offered string instruction to approximately 50 local and national students, some of whom went on to pursue music at university programs. In a quote from a 2010 article written in Summit County Citizens Voice, one student remarked “we wouldn’t fly across the country to work with just any group, it would have to be the Carpe Diem String Quartet.”