During the spring and summer months, music drifts across the water at Smith Mountain Lake in Southwest Virginia, as the sun dips behind the Blue Ridge Mountains. It’s a quintessential scene: families gathered on blankets, neighbors sharing a sunset, and a band playing beneath an open starlit sky.
But the concerts at The Coves at Smith Mountain Lake are about far more than music. They are also about community.
In recent years, The Coves, a lakefront neighborhood in Union Hall, Virginia, built an amphitheater, with the audience enjoying sunset views over the stage and the scenic lake off to the side. At first glance, it might seem like another luxury amenity in a scenic development. But when The Coves built the amphitheater, it was conceived with a different vision: to serve as a stage not only for musicians but also for philanthropy…