Symphony in Flint Hills plays final notes
Staff writer
A crowd of roughly 8,000 attended the final Symphony of the Flint Hills concert Saturday at Evans Family Ranch in Chase County.
It was the 20th anniversary of the popular event.
The annual concert will now cease, though its parent organization will continue.
Operations manager Kelly Tastove said Symphony of the Flint Hills would sponsor another kind of event in the future.
“The board is exploring ways to continue our mission with some sort of a different type of avenue,” she said.
Tastove did not say why exactly the concert was ending, though she implied it had always been the plan to stop after two decades.
“The goal was to do it 20 years all along,” she said.
The Kansas City Symphony orchestra and country artist Logan Mize performed on Saturday.
In addition, powwow dancers, a cattle drive, tours, and natural scenery entertained guests.
“Weather couldn’t have been any better,” Tastove said.
Live radar, operated by the National Weather Service, was stationed at the site. Staff spent an anxious morning watching storms flutter around the county, but skies eventually cleared.
“Just enough to make the temperature cool off,” Tastove said.