An Appalachian Summer Festival Final Events this Week

July 29, 2015 at Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts - (7 PM) Weicholz Global Film Series: Valley of Saints. The festival is hosting the North Carolina premiere of this strikingly beautiful film shot on Dal Lake in the Kashmir region of India. Valley of Saints tells the story of Gulzar, a young tourist boatman and his long-time friend who wish to flee the poverty and military conflict of their lakeside community in Kashmir. A military crackdown derails their plans, and Gulzar finds himself responsible for a mysterious woman scientist who is trapped in the conflict. Gulzar must choose between a new life and a new love. The film opened at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Dramatic Cinema Audience Award and the Alfred P. Sloan Prize. India/Kashmir; Not rated; Directed by Musa Syeed (2012); 82 minutes.

July 30 at Rosen Concert Hall - (8 PM) Broyhill Chamber Ensemble. The concluding concert in the series, featuring internationally renowned violinist and artistic director Gil Morgenstern, joined by the nation's most exciting chamber musicians of today. This concert features works by Fauré and Brahms.

July 31 at Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts - (8 PM) Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox. Scott Bradlee is an American musician, pianist, arranger and YouTube sensation noted for recording pop hits of the present performed à la pop hits of the past. Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop" assayed as a doo-wop number; Macklemore and Ryan Lewis' "Thrift Shop" modified in flapper jazz; Sam Smith's "Stay With Me" rendered as a 1940s big-band standard. Bradlee manifests postmodernist ideas in his approach to production and business as well as music. But as far as the fans are concerned, it's just plain fun.