2024/2025 Family & Community Concerts


Messiah with Cumberland Choral Arts

Saturday, December 7, 2024 | 7:30pm | Seabrook Auditorium

Presented by Fayetteville State University. We are collaborating with Cumberland Choral Arts again this holiday season to perform Handel’s Messiah at Seabrook Auditorium. We hope you can join us for this holiday tradition! This is a free concert, but reservations ARE REQUIRED.


The Snowman

Saturday, December 14, 2024 | 2pm | Iron Mike Conference Center, Fort Liberty

Presented by Methodist University. The performance at Iron Mike Conference Center is held in partnership with Fort Liberty MWR and is free admission. This concert is supported by a grant from the North Carolina Arts Council.

Sunday, December 15, 2024 | 4pm | Cape Fear Botanical Garden

Join us for a holiday-themed family concert and movie for the community at Cape Fear Botanical Garden. Tickets are required for this event.

*A separate ticket for purchase is needed for Cape Fear Botanical Garden’s Holiday Lights event.


Side by Side Concert

Sunday, March 30, 2025 | 4pm | Huff Concert Hall at Methodist University

Our mission to educate, entertain, and inspire our community will be on full display with our annual free side-by-side concert, where the Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra performs alongside our world-class musicians. To learn more about FSYO click here.


Independence Concert

Friday, July 4, 2025 | Gates Open at 6pm, Concert Starts 7:30pm | Festival Park

This beloved family tradition is held in partnership with the City of Fayetteville. All are welcome to attend at no charge.

Featured Musician

Warren Ferguson – Viola

Violist Warren Ferguson has been a member of the Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra since 2008. He is also a member of other regional orchestras including the Raleigh Symphony Orchestra, Musica Chamber Ensemble, the Wilson Symphony Orchestra, and the Carolina Philharmonic. He performs the majority of the weekends of the year. He is a past member of the Long Bay Symphony and Dayton Philharmonic and has played with the North Carolina Symphony and Durham Symphony. He also plays violin, including classical, popular, Irish and Celtic music, bluegrass, and jazz, appearing with other talented like minded musicians. He studied viola performance at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music where he received his Bachelors of Music, and went on to receive a Masters in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at Wright State University and studied Irish traditional music at the University of Limerick. His regular day job is as a software engineer. He considers written music in many respects, as the first programming language. He loves to play music and finds it helps provide a good life balance that brings enjoyment to many.

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To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource.  Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.

This organization is supported in part by a space grant from the BB&T Term Endowment of Cumberland Community Foundation, Inc.


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