El Paso Announces 2012 Music Under the Stars Lineup
The City of El Paso’s Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) announces the 29th season of Music Under the Stars.
The City of El Paso’s Museums and Cultural Affairs Department (MCAD) announces the 29th season of Music Under the Stars.
Jampact, SMU Meadows School of the Arts’ multicultural faculty jazz quintet, performs at 8 p.m. Thursday, May 3 at the Latino Cultural Center, 2600 Live Oak Street.
The Cottonwood Art Festival is proud to announce that Brave Combo of Denton, winner of two Grammy Awards and nominee of seven Grammy Awards, will perform at the Richardson festival on May 5, 2012, from 5:15 – 8 p.m.
SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts will present its 19th annual benefit concert, The 2012 Meadows at the Meyerson, at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 10 in the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, 2301 Flora St. in Dallas. Held each spring, the concert features the critically acclaimed Meadows Symphony Orchestra and honors a community leader. This year’s honorees are noted arts and civic patrons Gloria and Jack Hammack. The 2012 event chair is Tincy Miller, and the honorary chairs are Sharon and Mike McCullough.
Join the Dallas Museum of Art for Jazz in the Atrium during the month of April as we take you on a journey through the decades of the 20th century to highlight four popular eras of jazz music, starting with the Roaring Twenties, the focus of our newest exhibition Youth and Beauty. Join some of Dallas’s favorite musicians and bands, such as the Dallas Jazz Orchestra and Dave Zoller, as they perform selections from specific eras of jazz to celebrate the first annual Dallas Jazz Appreciation Month (DJAM).
The McKinney Avenue Contemporary (The MAC) is proud to present a contemporary music event: JAMPACT. JAMPACT plays an improvisational mix of jazz, funk, and world music. These five players/composers glide effortlessly from blues to gospel to fusion to the standards of Ellington, Monk and Miles. The quintet freely embraces the universe of Jazz and all of its siblings inclusively. From exotic grooves to jammin blues, everything is a world-premiere original and electro-acoustic.
The City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Sarah B. Colmark as the new General Manager of WRR Classical 101.1 FM, North Texas’ classical music station. A trained pianist and radio executive, Ms Colmark brings to the station a combination of in-depth classical music knowledge and commercial radio background.
World-renowned sitar maestro Aloke Dasgupta will bring his talents to Texas for a special performance of Indian and Eastern music with Dallas-based world music group Impending Bloom Floating Ensemble at the Crow Collection of Asian Art Saturday, December 10, from 7:30 – 9 p.m.
In December, the South Dallas Cultural Center (SDCC) will launch Sonya Bowser’s latest book project with a very special event. In addition to Ms. Bowser’s book signing, SDCC will kick-off and anti-bullying campaign.
The University of North Texas Center for Chamber Music Studies — a highly selective program made up of 18 of UNT’s finest student musicians — will perform chamber music from 19th-century Johannes Brahms to modern-day Anthony Plog in a Nov. 28 (Monday) concert.
Lawndale Art Center is pleased to present a performance by overtone singer Stuart Hinds, Thursday, December 1, 2011 at 6 p.m.
Jazz trumpeter Terell Stafford, hailed by piano legend McCoy Tyner as “one of the greatest players of our time, a fabulous trumpet player,” will perform with the world-renowned University of North Texas One O’Clock Lab Band in its 51st Annual Fall Concert.