Millenium Stage News Today

Isabel Folkers is orchestrating advocacy through music. After receiving the VSA International Young Musicians Award in the spring, the rising third-year ethnomusicology student is set to take the Kennedy Center’s Millennium Stage on Saturday as part of the VSA’s annual International Young Musicians Award Winners in Concert, which will also be streamed online.

Teachers during the week and concert performers on weekends, the String Queens are performing Friday at the Ordway Center in St. Paul for the first time. Find out how these dynamic performers use music from the Baroque era to today’s popular songs to reach new and diverse audiences.