Music Event Calendar

Friday, August 23

5 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

East Central College’s Music Department will be kicking off their concert series with a free, outdoor music festival.  Bands in order of performance will be:   Woodshine, Pamwe marimba band, and Funky Butt Brass Band.

All proceeds from the festival will go towards manufacturing scholarships.

Supported by:  Metallica Scholars Initiative, ECC’s Music Department, and ECC Patrons of the Arts

September 6 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

Pop!Pop!Pop! Orchestra celebrates the most dominant musical media of the past 50 years, popular music, through the power of live string  performances. Come for a show celebrating three brilliant singer/songwriters featuring St. Louis icon, vocalist Anita Jackson!

September 20 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

The members of the Arianna String Quartet serve on the faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as professors of violin, viola, and cello. The  ASQ also presents an interdisciplinary performance and lecture series “First Mondays with the ASQ,” at KWMU, St. Louis Public Radio. Pianist  Jennifer Judd will join ASQ performing Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A Major.

September 27 • 4 p.m. • HH 105

Miguel Espinoza is hailed as one of the best flamenco guitarists in the world. Described by Guitar Player Magazine as “mesmerizing. Miguel Espinoza Fusion is world class global chamber music making that explodes the parameters of style, yet ever remains close to the heart.”- David Balakrishnan.

October 18 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

The Lovestruck Balladeers enchant audiences with their masterful performances and inspired repertoire of ragtime, jazz, and beautiful songs from  around the world. Together or on their own paths, this stellar band of traveling musicians has traversed the country and the globe, carrying traditional styles into modern times.

October 25 • 5 p.m. • HH 105

The Croatian pianist Dr. Javor Bracic was praised by New York Concert Review for “deep, genuine musicianship and an outstanding technique” at his Carnegie Hall debut recital. He has given recitals in five continents. Dr. Bracic is on the faculty of the University of Connecticut and Queens College.

November 8 • 6 p.m. Bistro;  7 p.m.  Concert

Grammy award winning soprano Christine Brewer and the ECC Culinary Department present an  unforgettable evening of food and beautiful music. Christine Brewer was named one of the top 20 sopranos of all time (BBC Music). The seating is limited, please reserve your tickets early.

January 24 • 7:30 p.m.

ECC Theatre

It is our great pleasure to once again welcome St. Louis Symphony Orchestra concertmaster David Halen and acclaimed SLSO cellist Bjorn Ranheim  with pianist Jennifer Judd for an evening of spectacular music. Halen, Ranheim and Judd will perform trios by Rachmaninoff and Brahms.