A Capella Group Straight No Chaser Dives into Summer Tour with Concert Stop in Boone, NC “Straight No Chaser Beach Bash” Plays An Appalachian Summer Festival July 10 at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets on Sale This Spring.
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BOONE, NC — RIAA Gold Certified a cappella group Straight No Chaser today announced their summer tour titled “Straight No Chaser Beach Bash.” The nine-member group, seen above manifesting summer beach vibes this winter, will perform iconic songs of summer from the last six decades, including Pharrell Williams’ “Happy” and Walk the Moon's “Shut Up and Dance.” Appalachian State University’s annual multi-disciplinary summer arts celebration, An Appalachian Summer Festival, will host the celebrated ensemble on July 10 at 7:30pm. Tickets for the Boone engagement will go on sale with the full festival season later this spring.
Straight No Chaser Summer Beach Bash kicks off June 16, 2026 at Count Basie Center in Red Bank, New Jersey and runs through July 12, 2026, with the final stop being at Oxford Performing Arts Center in Oxford, Alabama. Most stops on the tour will be the group’s only local performance of 2026.
The “Summer Beach Bash” announcement follows the group’s 2025 marathon fall tour, “Holiday Road,” where they played 63 shows in the last three months of the year. Their newest holiday album, also titled Holiday Road, featured guest appearances from Mickey Guyton, John Splithoff, and Hunter Hayes, whose collaboration “Christmas is Different” landed on holiday playlists from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Vevo.
With all nine members being rabid football fans, the group decided to try their voices at all the major NFL network theme songs, a post which is now approaching 10 million across their social platforms.
The 42nd season of An Appalachian Summer Festival runs June 27-August 1 and features a diverse lineup of music, dance, theatre, film and visual arts programming. The full season lineup and on-sale date will be announced in the coming weeks. Visit AppSummer.org for the most updated information.
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Tickets on sale Friday, Feb. 13 — Boone, NC on-sale date TBD
For the full SNC schedule and more details, visit SNCMusic.com.
JUNE
16 - Red Bank, NJ - Count Basie Center
17 - Beverly, MA - The Cabot
18 - Portsmouth, NH - The Music Hall
19 - Woonsocket, RI - Stadium Theatre for the Performing Arts
20 - Great Barrington, MA - Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center
21 - Concord, NH - Capitol Center for the Arts
23 - North Bethesda, MD - Music Center at Strathmore
24 - Lancaster, PA - American Music Theatre
25 - Stamford, CT - Palace Theatre
26 - Morristown, NJ - Mayo Performing Arts Center
27 - Westhampton Beach, NY - Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center
28 - Havre de Grace, MD - The STAR Centre*
29 - Ocean City, NJ - Ocean City Music Pier
30 - Marietta, OH - Peoples Bank Theatre
JULY
2 - Petoskey, MI - Bay View John M. Hall Auditorium
3 - Shipshewana, IN - Blue Gate Performing Arts Center
5 - Northfield, OH - MGM Northfield Park
7 - Warren, PA - Struthers Library
8 - Saratoga, NY - Universal Preservation Hall
9 - Richmond, VA - Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
10 - Boone, NC - Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts
11 - Wilmington, NC - The Wilson Center at Cape Fear Community College
12 - Oxford, AL - Oxford Performing Arts Center
Tickets for An Appalachian Summer Festival 2026
On-sale date TBD. Prices are structured for multiple artistic tastes and budgets, with several free events and discounts for both children, students, and App State faculty/staff. Tickets are available in person at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts Box Office (733 Rivers St), online at AppSummer.org, or by phone at 828-262-4046.
About An Appalachian Summer Festival
Presented by Appalachian State University’s Office of Arts Engagement and Cultural Resources, this annual celebration of the performing and visual arts is held every summer in venues across the university campus, and features a diverse mix of music, dance, theatre, visual arts, and film programming. An Appalachian Summer Festival began in 1984 as a chamber music series and retains strong roots in classical music, combined with a variety of other programming geared to varied artistic tastes, preferences, and price points. The festival has become one of the region’s leading arts events, attracting more than 27,000 visitors to the High Country each summer. Southern Living Magazine called App Summer “a cultural hotspot [and] one of America’s biggest summer arts celebrations.”
