Lucinda Williams, Buddy Guy, McCoury & Grisman, more to play Carolina Performing Arts 2015-16 season

Carolina Performing Arts at UNC has just announced the lineup of their 2015-16 season and as we've come to expect, it is made up of quite the eclectic mix of musical genres as well as dance, theater and more.

Among the big musicians coming as part of the new season are Lucinda Williams on October 2, Buddy Guy on October 3, Del McCoury and David Grisman playing the music of Woody Guthrie on November 14, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and Denzal Sinclaire on December 11, Steep Canyon Rangers on December 12, Count Basie Orchestra on February 20, and Abigail Washburn and friends on April 17. Check out the full schedule below.

Tickets for the 2015-16 season will go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, June 10. UNC students, faculty and staff can buy tickets starting on Wednesday, June 3.

Carolina Performing Arts 2015-16 schedule
09.29.15 - Kenny Endo and Kaoru Watanabe, Taiko
10.02.15 - Lucinda Williams
10.03.15 - Buddy Guy
10.09-10.15 - Antigone by Sophokles feat. Juliette Binoche, directed by Ivo Van Hove
10.20.15 - Gil Shaham - Bach Six Solos w/ films by David Michalek
10.22.15 - Gil Shaham w/ UNC Symphony Orchestra & Tonu Kalam, conductor
10.23.15 - Mariza
10.29.15 - Danay Suarez
10.30.15 - Chicago Symphony Orchestra w/ Riccardo Muti, music director & conductor
11.06.15 - Umusuna, Memories Before History - Sankai Juku
11.10.15 - Ensemble Intercontemporain w/ Matthias Pintscher, music director & conductor
11.11.15 - Ensemble Intercontemporain w/ Matthias Pintscher, music director & conductor
11.14.15 - Del McCoury & David Grisman - The Music of Woody Guthrie
11.17.15 - You Us We All: An Opera by Shara Worden performed by Box Baroque Orchestration X
12.05-06.15 - The Nutcracker - Carolina Ballet
12.11.15 - Jazz at Lincoln Center w/ Wynton Marsalis & Denzal Sinclaire
12.12.15 - Steep Canyon Rangers
01.16.16 - Compagnie Marie Chouinard
01.22.16 - Meslissa Aldana w/ Pablo Menares & Jochen Rueckert
02.05.16 - Jason Moran and the Bandwagon
02.18-19.16 - Throw Me Up on the Burnpile & Light Me Up - Lucy Alibar
02.20.16 - The Count Basie Orchestra w/ Diane Schuur & New York Voices
02.23-24.16 - Alvin Alley American Dance Theater
03.04.16 - Fred Hersche, piano & Julian Lage, guitar
03.22.16 - The Ghost of Montpellier Meets the Samurai - Trajal Harrell
03.29.16 - The Knights w/ Gil Shaham, violin
03.29.16 - An Evening w/ Garrison Keillor
04.07.16 - The Brahms Piano Quartets - Leif Ove Andsnes, Christian Tetzlaff, Tabea Zimmerman & Clemens Hagen
04.09.16 - Gabriel Kahane & Timo Andres
04.13.16 - Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra w/ Mariss Jansons, chief conductor & Leonidas Kavakos, violin
04.15-16.16 - Lil Buck @ Chapel Hill - A Jookin’ Jam Session
04.17.16 - Abigail Washburn & Friends
04.20.16 - Les Arts Florissants w/ William Christie, conductor
04.22-23.16 - Martha Graham Dance Company
04.27-28.16 - La Verita - Compagnia Finzi Pasca