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“My journey into music education started when I was pretty young,” says Cape Symphony teaching artist Ben Colgan, who has sung and studied piano since childhood. A Nauset Regional High School graduate, he was active in ensembles and productions throughout his school years, and went on to study music at Boston University.

Cape Symphony patron Peg Nicholson happily “washed ashore” in Falmouth in the late 1990s. A lifelong classical music lover, she first discovered the Cape Symphony at a “Pops Goes the Summer” Labor Day weekend event on the Cape Cod Fairgrounds, and became a regular concertgoer. Before long, a friend coaxed her on to the Advisory Committee, then to the Finance Committee, and “next I knew they were recruiting me for the Board!” Peg served four years on the Cape Symphony Board of Trustees, and has been an avid supporter of the Symphony’s mission.

The Cape Symphony Orchestra presents “Holiday on the Cape” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center on Friday, December 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM and 8:00 PM, Saturday, December 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM and 7:30 PM, and Sunday, December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM and 5:00 PM.

At this season’s Holiday on the Cape concerts on December 5, 6, & 7, 2025, Cape Symphony will lead a Holiday Pops Care Drive in collaboration with The Cape and Islands Veterans Outreach Center (CIVOC). CIVOC’s mission to provide comprehensive life sustaining services for veterans and their families is one we fully support, and we know our audiences do, too.

The Cape Symphony Orchestra presents “A Salute to Service” at the Barnstable Performing Arts Center at 4:00 PM on November 15 and 3:00 PM on November 16, 2025.
Ticketholders are invited to a discussion of the concert program led by George Scharr one hour before each performance.

Sally Joyce had a front row seat to the power of music therapy before she’d even heard of it as such. “Way back as a teenager,” she says, “I was a counselor at a camp for developmentally delayed children. Many were nonresponsive, with very little participation in activities. But when I did music with those kids, there was singing and moving!”