2026-2027 Season Schedule | Summer Pops 2027
All performances will be held in the Masquerade Dance Theater at the Ames Center in Burnsville unless otherwise noted.
Dakota Valley Symphony Night at the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe
Sunday, September 27, 2026 6:00 to 9:00PM, performance 7pm
Featuring Erika Hoogeveen, violin, Dr. Christopher Kachian, guitar, and the Dakota Valley Symphony Strings
Vivaldi: Guitar Concerto, featuring Dr. Christopher Kachian, guitar
Karl Jenkins: Palladio (First Movement)
Pujol: Suite Buenos Aires (excerpts), featuring Dr. Christopher Kachian, guitar
Vivaldi: Suite Buenos Aires (excerpts), featuring Erika Hoogeveen, violin
Wirén: Serenade for Strings: March
Anderson: Plink, Plank, Plunk
Please note that this performance is at a different time from our usual concert time slot and also at a different location. It will be held at the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe located at 12500 Nicollet Ave, Burnsville, MN 55337, adjacent to The Ames Center.
A portion of your purchase benefits the Orchestra and Chorus!
Mick Sterling Presents - Elton and Billy Symphony Songs
Sunday, Oct 11 2026 at 7:00 pm (Note the new time!)
Featuring Mick Sterling and the Dakota Valley Symphony
Mick Sterling Presents and The Dakota Valley Symphony are presenting a dream show for any fans of either Elton John or Billy Joel...
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A Musical Christmas Carol
Sunday, Dec 6 2026 at 2:00 pm
Featuring guest artists Jake Endres, Gary Briggle, Joni Griffith, and the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus, Austin Meyer, Chorus Master
In a classic 1940’s radio-hour atmosphere, the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus fill the studio with warm, candlelit sound as actors Jake Endres, Gary Briggle, and Joni Griffith bring Dickens' A Christmas Carol to life. Pausing for smiles and shivers as the orchestra paints each transformation in rich orchestral color and the chorus answers with clean, heartfelt harmonies.
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Fantasia on Christmas Carols follows like a festive procession of Christmas melodies, swelling and turning with communal joy, then settling back into reverent glow as the story deepens. Gustav Holst’s Christmas Day rises with ceremonial grace, and In the Bleak Mid-Winter arrives in quiet, radiant stillness—voices centered and tender, making the radio seem suddenly close and intimate.
With John Rutter’s carols bringing a brighter lift, their crisp, modern warmth threading through the older tradition, until Dickens’ moral light feels fully kindled—culminating in a final, gently triumphant choral-and-orchestral chord that fades into the soft static of holiday night.
Featuring...
Dickens: A Christmas Carol
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Holst: Christmas Day (Choral Fantasy on Old Carols)
Matt Riley (arr.): Christmas Overture
Holst: In the Bleak Mid-Winter
John Rutter: Various Carols
Coleridge-Taylor: Christmas Overture
... and more!
Mick Sterling Presents - An Andy and Bing Christmas
Sunday, Dec 20 2026 at 2:00 pm
Featuring Mick Sterling and the Dakota Valley Symphony
Shall We Dance?
Sunday, Feb 7 2027 at 2:00 pm
Featuring the Dakota Valley Symphony and Chorus
Florence Price: Piano Concerto in D Minor...
Young Artists Concert
Sunday, Apr 18 2027 at 2:00 pm
Featuring the Dakota Valley Symphony and our annual Young Artists Competition winners.
Check back for further details and additional events: Summer Pops 2027 | Past Seasons
