Opened in 1979, the Singletary Center for the Arts in front of you is the fine arts complex of the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. It originally opened on November 1, 1979 as the Center for the Arts. Nearly eight years later, on April 16, 1987, the Center was dedicated to and renamed after the eighth president of the university, Dr. Otis A. Singletary, becoming henceforth known as the Singletary Center for the Arts.
As part of the College of Fine Arts and essential to the UK School of Music, its mission is to host artistic, cultural and educational events for the university community, the Lexington community and the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The Singletary Center provides professional, full-service venues for the creation, practical application, and dissemination of artistic, cultural and educational expressions by international, national, regional, university, and student performers, artists, and speakers. Since opening in 1979 the Center has served over 3.7 million patrons and has come to host over 400 events annually.
Among those 400 annual events, Singletary plays host to a variety of musical... Notice that since 1979 this stage has welcomed more than 3.7 million patrons to its doors.