A Greensboro Tradition
Music for a Sunday Evening in the Park
April.04/ 2009 Filed in: What's
Happening
The 2008 season ended with a performance by two of its most popular bands, Wally West's Little Big Band and Martha and The Mood Swingers on the lawn at Blandwood Mansion. This year they will reprise that lineup on Sunday June 7th at 6:00 pm in Center City Park for the opening of the 2009 season of Music For A Sunday Evening In The Park, a Greensboro tradition for 30 years.
The MUSEP summer concert series continues to be one of the golden treasures that makes Greensboro such a great place to live and work and that really sets it apart from other communities. It has been a weekly gathering of friends and neighbors to share picnic dinners and enjoy the best native Greensboro musical talent.
Jennifer Hance, Greensboro City Arts Director for the Music Center, just released the lineup for this years series and it includes many favorites from years past plus some new talent. In addition to Wally and Martha at the first concert, 19 other local groups will fill the air with music for the 13 scheduled weekly events throughout the summer. A complete schedule for the new season can be found at the official MUSEP website at www.musep.com
MUSEP began as a City funded outreach project of the Parks and Recreation Department and when City Arts had its budget cut in half a number of years ago, MUSEP became completely unfunded. Recognizing the the value of this program to Greensboro, The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro generously stepped in the keep the series alive.
But as with all the wonderful work that the Foundation does for our community, their contribution was provided only as a stop gap measure so that a suitable permanent funding solution could be arranged. No one stepped up to the challenge. They continued to keep it alive, however, last year they cut their funding for the series in half restructuring their donation as a one to one matching fund up to half the cost of the festival.That means that when Jennifer walks the festival each week with the donation bucket your contributions are vital to the continuation of the series.
As all of our regular concert goers should know, last years weather forced the cancelation of a record four consecutive weeks of shows and along with it four weeks of lost revenue. Your contributions are critical to the continuation and success of the series. So please help out! Click the link below for details on how to donate.
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