Houston Symphony Presents Free Music Festival at Jones Hall Today

Today, July 13, the Houston Symphony will present a free 12-hour Day of Music at Jones Hall. As a special event during the Symphony's Centennial Season, Day of Music will be set aside to celebrate Houston's musical diversity. Houston Symphony performances will bookend the day with a Family Concert at 10:00 a.m. and the annual Houston Chronicle Concert at 8:00 p.m.. Between the two Symphony performances, over 25 community music groups will perform samplings of Jazz, Rock, Blues, R&B, Acoustic Guitar, Blue Steel Drums, Mariachi, Japanese Drumming and more on five stages inside and outside of Jones Hall. Various chamber music ensembles, student groups and church and community choirs will also perform an assortment of classical music throughout the day.

In addition to hearing great music, audiences can participate in harmonica clinics taught by the Houston Blues Museum at 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. on the Balcony level. Before the 10:00 a.m. Family Concert, there will be craft activities and an Instrument Petting Zoo, where children can try out the different instruments of the orchestra.

Audiences are welcome to come and go or stay all day to hear great music celebrating Houston's musical talent and diversity. Between performances, concertgoers can walk across Louisiana Street to Jones Plaza to sample some of Houston's finest food truck fare while listening to music performed on the Patio in front of Jones Hall. Food trucks include Bernie's Burger Bus, Coreanos, The Waffle Bus, Happy Endings and Chi'lantro BBQ. In the evening, free refreshments will be provided by St. Arnold's Brewery.

Saturday, July 13, 2013 10:00 AM (with pre-concert activities beginning at 9:00 AM)
Making Music with Friends - Family Concert
Robert Franz, conductor
Patrick Pan, piano
Milo Hamilton, narrator
Chris Hadfield, vocalist and guitar
Westside High School Inertia Dance Company
Pearl Hall Elementary Children's Choir
FREE

Saturday, July 13, 2013 8:00 PM
Houston Chronicle Concert
Cristian Macelaru, conductor
Moran Katz, clarinet
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso from Miroirs
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto in A major
Liszt/Muller-Berghaus: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C minor
Strauss: Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
FREE

Day of Music performing groups include:
American Festival for the Arts
Best Little Klezmer Band in Texas
Bobby Lyle Trio
Blue Steel Drum Ensemble
Brookwood Community Handbell Choir
Clandestine
Gay Men's Chorus of Houston
Greenbriar Consortium
Guitarists from Guitar Houston
Houston Brass Band
Houston Symphonic Band
Houston Symphony
Jack Saunders
Joy of Djembe Drumming
Kaminari Taiko
Keyun & The Zydeco Masters
KTSU Jazz Quartet Featuring Horace AleXander Young
Mercury
Mariachi MECA
Milton Hopkins & The Hit City Blues Band
Music Doing Good
Percussion One
River Oaks Chamber Orchestra Brass Quintet
Texas Brass Band
Tricia Fox and Ray Younkin
The Wheel Workers
Windsor Village United Methodist Church Mass Choir

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