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The WVU Community Music Program provides high-quality musical training to individuals of all ages and levels in Morgantown and the surrounding region. Programs range from private and group lessons to community bands and orchestras.

“Ya Got Trouble” in Morgantown as Big League Production’s National Tour of Meredith Willson’s “The Music Man” comes to the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre May 28 at 7:30 p.m. There’s trouble in River City when a fast-talking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian.

The recipients of the 2026 WVU College of Creative Arts and Media (CCAM) faculty awards exemplify excellence in research, teaching and service. Awardees include Seyedeh Nazli Hosseini, Julia Fraustino, Megan Leight, Mark Benincosa and Staci Romine. 

The WVU Symphony Orchestra invites the community to the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre on April 30 at 7:30 p.m. as it closes the spring semester with a program of varied orchestral works.

The WVU Clay Club’s spring pottery sale will take place May 1 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Douglas O. Blaney Lobby of the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center.

Angela Uriyo, Assistant Professor of Fashion and Design Merchandising at the West Virginia University College of Creative Arts and Media, has been selected as the 2026 Council on Undergraduate Research – Arts and Humanities Faculty Mentor Awardee.

The WVU School of Theatre and Dance presents the uproariously funny musical “Something Rotten!” from April 23-26 at the WVU Canady Creative Arts Center Lyell B. Clay Concert Theatre. Set in the 1590s, brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom are desperate to write a hit play but are stuck in the shadow of that Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.”

The Art Museum of WVU invites the community to take a last look at our exhibitions and enjoy an exclusive gallery talk with "Soft/Cover" co-curator DJ Hellerman, as well as a discussion with artist Aimee Koran, Thursday, April 30, from 4-7 p.m. Light hors d'oeuvres and drinks will be served.

For the students in Teaching Associate Professor Ashton Marra’s spring 2025 investigative reporting class, a full semester’s worth of data collecting, analyzing and reporting paid off in the best way possible. The 22 journalism students in the WVU Reed School of Media and Communications worked together on a project that became known as “The Price of Recovery.”

Three WVU Music Business and Industry students interned at the 2026 Country Radio Seminar, the premier national gathering of country music industry professionals. Audrey Hasley, Jarett McHale and Matteo Pandolfi spent three days in Nashville, Tennessee, supporting one of the most influential events in the country music ecosystem and making industry connections.