Columbus Symphony to Conclude 28-Year Run at Chemical Abstracts Service, 7/29 & 30

The Columbus Symphony and the Ohio State University Marching Band will team up for a grand send-off this weekend, performing two concerts that will conclude 28 years of performances at Chemical Abstracts Service. The Columbus Symphony will move the Nationwide Insurance Picnic with the Pops, its outdoor summer concert series, and Popcorn Pops, its Friday night summer series for children, to the Columbus Bicentennial Pavilion in the Columbus Commons beginning in 2012.

"The Columbus Symphony has been honored and privileged to present 28 summers of Picnic with the Pops at Chemical Abstracts Service, and because of their invaluable and unwavering support, it has become an icon of summer in Columbus," statEd Martin Inglis, CSO Board Chair. "We look forward to the huge and exciting undertaking of moving to Columbus Commons and creating a fun and accessible opportunity for symphonic music in downtown Columbus."

"CAS has been proud to be the CSO's summer home for nearly three decades," said CAS President Bob Massie. "I would like to thank a generation of CAS colleagues, CSO staff, musicians, and countless volunteers, as well as tens of thousands of patrons for creating so many exceptional memories on our campus. We wish the Symphony all the best in their new downtown location."

"What would summer in Columbus be without Picnic with the Pops?" staTed Mayor Michael B. Coleman. "We thank Chemical Abstracts Service for its many, many years of dedication and support, and welcome the Symphony to one of Columbus' most beautiful, new green spaces, the Columbus Commons."

The 2011 Nationwide Insurance Picnic with the Pops presents the OSU Marching Band with the Columbus Symphony on Friday and Saturday, July 29 and 30, at Chemical Abstracts Service (2540 Olentangy River Rd.). Gates open at 6pm. Concert begins at 8:15pm. Tickets are $20 for adults and $8 for children ages 3-14 when purchased by phone at 614.228.8600, online at www.PicnicWithThePops.com, in person at the Ohio Theatre Ticket Office (39 E. State St.), or at the gate on the night of the performance. Children 2 and under are free. Discounted adult tickets are available at central Ohio Giant Eagle locations for $18.

This performance is made possible through the generous support of title sponsor Nationwide Insurance and host, Chemical Abstracts Service. Additional support is provided by presenting sponsors The Blackwell, Catering by Design, John Gerlach & Company, LLP and Live! Technologies, Inc.; concert sponsors Germain Lexus, Giant Eagle, Lasting Impressions Event Rentals, Messer Construction; and supporting sponsors Graeter's Ice Cream, Hamburg Fireworks, and Heidelberg Distributing.

www.PicnicWithThePops.com

Photo Credit: Randall L. Schieber

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