The Moab Music Festival's signature events, the Grotto Concerts celebrate music in concert with the landscape by combining the beauty of the region's scenic wonders with classical chamber music. The concerts take place in a pristine wilderness grotto, which is carved from the red rock by the spring floods of the Colorado River. In describing the grotto’s acoustics, Festival Music Director Michael Barrett said in the New York Times, “This is our Carnegie Hall. God made this one and Carnegie made the other one.”