LOGAN – The Cache Valley Center for the Arts will announce the make-up of its 2023-24 National Touring Season on radio station KVNU on June 22.
That announcement will be made by Wendi Hassan, the executive director of CacheARTS, at 4 p.m. during the “For the People” broadcast hosted by Jason Williams on 102.1 FM/102.5 FM and 610 AM.
Until now, the line-up for the upcoming season of touring shows at the Ellen Eccles Theatre has been deliberately kept secret.
But excitement for the new season has been building throughout Cache Valley in the wake of the theater’s 100th anniversary celebration in late March, according to Alek Nelson, the CacheARTS marketing director.
“We decided that the best way to reach our audience was on KVNU during Jason’s popular weekly ‘Theatre Hour’ broadcast,” Nelson says.
Hassan will be in the KVNU studio live for the full hour to announce the line-up of the 2023-24 national touring season and to take questions from Williams and his listening audience.
The CacheARTS 2022-23 national touring season included performances by Mannheim Steamroller, Jazz at the Lincoln Center, Japanese-American drummers, Chinese acrobats and three evenings with stand-up comics.
The roots of the Cache Valley Center for the Arts date back to 1989, when it was formed as the Capitol Arts Alliance to oversee the restoration of the aging Capitol Theatre and the construction of the adjacent Bullen Center.
The CAA’s founding trustees worked closely with then-Mayor Newel Daines to create the public and private partnership that galvanized the community and culminated in an exquisite restoration of the downtown venue.
Following additional restoration in the early 1990s, the CAA transitioned to the Cache Valley Center for the Arts when the doors opened to the newly dedicated Ellen Eccles Theatre.
In the past 30 years, more than 1.5 million patrons have attended attractions in the CacheARTS’ national touring seasons or one of its resident events by local performing arts companies.
“For the People” can be heard on KVNU between 4-6 p.m. on weekdays.