Swarthout Recital Hall
4.8 · 12 Google reviews
Swarthout Recital Hall is a KU School of Music performance space in Murphy Hall on the Lawrence campus; its website gives no information about renting the hall for outside events.
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Swarthout Recital Hall is a performance space within the University of Kansas School of Music, located in Murphy Hall at 1530 Naismith Drive in Lawrence. The KU School of Music website describes the hall only in connection with the department’s own performances, offering a “Live Stream Swarthout Events” link to the department’s YouTube channel.
The site gives no information about renting the hall for weddings or other outside events, no capacity, no catering/alcohol rules, no accessibility details, and no rental contact route. Whether the hall is available to the public for private bookings at all is unclear from this site.
Ask the KU School of Music directly whether Swarthout Recital Hall can be rented for a wedding ceremony or reception, and if so, through what office.
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1530 Naismith Dr, Lawrence, KS 66044, USA
Lawrence, Kansas
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