Box Office Policies

Seating: Seating is first come, first served. There are no assigned seats in our standard venues.

Payment Methods: Tickets, merchandise, and donations to the FSO made through this site may be paid for through Sqaure using Visa and Mastercard credit cards.

Delivery Options and Conditions: Tickets purchased online or by phone 15 business days before the concert/event will be mailed. Tickets purchased after this time period will be held at Will Call, and can be picked up the night of the concert/event.

Will Call Location: Our Will Call tickets are held at a separate location from our standard Box Office line in the lobbies of both of our performance venues. Please look for the Will Call sign so that you do not have to wait in our Box Office line. The Box Office and the Will Call locations open one hour prior to each concert.

Refunds and Exchanges: If you find that you need to return or exchange a ticket, this must be done at least 48 hours before the concert. If an event is cancelled, you will receive a full refund of your purchase.

Group Discounts: Group discounts are available for groups of 20 or more. Please call the symphony office at (910)433-4690 no later than 48hrs before a concert to make arrangements for group purchases. These discounts will not be available for purchase at the door.

Office Hours: If you have questions or would prefer to handle your transactions over the phone, the FSO office hours are Monday through Thursday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Please call (910)433-4690. We are located at 308 Green St., Suite 200, Fayetteville, NC 28301.

Featured Musician

About the FSO “Music Nerd” – Joshua Busman

Joshua Kalin Busman is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Music at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, where he teaches courses in music history and music theory. A native of Knoxville, TN, comes to North Carolina from just over the Great Smoky Mountains. In 2009, he graduated summa cum laude from Middle Tennessee State University with a B.M. in Music Theory and Composition. He completed his M.A. and Ph.D. in Musicology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, successfully defending his dissertation in April 2015. His research focuses on the intersections of music and religious practice, and over the past several years, Dr. Busman has presented his research at a host of regional, national, and international conferences and published work in “Sounding Board” from Ethnomusicology Review, The Avid Listener, MAKE Magazine , The Other Journal, and The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, as well as in edited collections from Routledge Press and Lexington Books He currently serves as the president of the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Southeast and Caribbean Chapter as well as the Society for Ethnomusicology’s Religion, Music, and Sound study group. When he isn’t reading, writing, or researching, Joshua likes to play guitar and hang out with his wife, son, and hound dog at their home in Fayetteville.

To Educate. To Entertain. To Inspire.

The Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1956 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and is a professional, regional orchestra whose mission is to educate, entertain, and inspire the citizens of the Fayetteville, North Carolina region as the leading musical resource. Praised for its artistic excellence, the Symphony leads in the cultural and educational landscape for Fayetteville and the southeastern North Carolina region.

The Fayetteville Symphony typically performs 8 concerts during any given season performing both at Methodist University and Fayetteville State University. Partnerships with other agencies include collaborative performances with Cape Fear Regional Theatre, chamber concerts at St. John’s Episcopal Church, as well as the city’s annual Independence concert with fireworks. The Symphony brings music to the schools and the community by performing educational concerts, as well as having its own Fayetteville Symphony Youth Orchestra, after school strings and summer music camps.