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Walagante Suggested donation $10

Walagante is a Houston-based Garifuna ensemble. SweetCup is on site selling delicious gelato, in addition to free beer from Saint Arnolds and snacks. Bring your family, friends, a blanket, and enjoy a summer night of music!

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Wayanay Inka Suggested donation $10

Founded in Lima, Wayanay Inka has established an international reputation for being among the finest ambassadors of Andean music. SweetCup is on site selling delicious gelato, in addition to free beer from Saint Arnolds and snacks. Bring your family, friends, a blanket, and enjoy a summer night of music!

Abstract Wahida Suggested donation $10Co-founders Tom Larson and Andrew Ward form the core of the musical group Wahida (meaning unity in Arabic and Urdu), performing a unique mix of gospel, New Orleans second line, and Mardi Gras Indian music counterposed with music from Sufi and North Indian traditions. Their performances not only energize and entertain, but strive to create and sustain a higher level of respect, interest, and peacefully shared purposes between cultures through the use...

Abstract Jason Oby Suggested donation $10 To celebrate the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, the Rothko Chapel presents music that inspired MLK as he led the movement to transform America from separation and strife to full civil rights and social justice for all. Tenor Jason Oby is joined by some of Houston’s leading African-American singers in a stirring program of protest songs, spirituals, and black gospel music. Further evoking the spirit of the movement, excerpts from...

Abstract 2013 Member and Donor Appreciation Performance and Reception Kevin LockeKevin Locke (Lakota name Tokaheya Inajin, meaning "The First to Arise") is a visionary Hoop Dancer, preeminent player of the indigenous Northern Plains flute, a traditional storyteller, and educator. Kevin Locke is acknowledged to be the pivotal force in the revival of the indigenous flute tradition, which teetered on the brink of extinction and was awarded a National Heritage Fellowship by the National...

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A Mukuru “Arts for AIDS” concert

Abstract Brendan Kinsella, Pianist Dr. Tom O'Brien and Hosam Aboul-Ela, Dialogue Presented in partnership with APERIO, Music of the Americas and FotoFest Suggested donation $10 Aperio artist Brendan Kinsella performs American composer Frederic Rzewski’s towering masterpiece for solo piano, 36 Variations on “The People United Will Never Be Defeated!” Rzewski composed this hour-long, virtuosic work in 1975 on the eve of the United States’ bicentennial as a meditation on the 1973 overthrow...

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Presented in Cooperation with Sacred Songs, Sacred Sites of HAA

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Performed by giovanni consort and q8 ensemble, conducted by Iain Grandage. University of North Texas, Morton Feldman. UNT College of Music performance featuring “The Rothko Chapel” by Morton Feldman

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Performed by the Concert Chorale of the University of Houston Moore's School of Music and in conjunction with the American Musicologist Society's National Conference