Free Summer Music Announced

For West Orange residents if you're willing to head down to South Orange, SOPAC announced a long line-up of free musical events to mark summertime.

Arts for All Festival @ Celebrate South Orange: Kick-Off Event
Where: South Orange Performing Arts Center (1 SOPAC Way), South Orange, NJ, 07079
When: Friday June 8 at 7:30PM
What: Free performance by Lydia Johnson Dance company
How: FREE.  First come, first seated. 

Arts for All Festival @ Celebrate South Orange 2012
Where: Downtown South Orange; outdoors at the main stage
When: Saturday, June 16th @ 1:00PM – 8:00PM
How: FREE but first come, first seated.   
 
NEW THIS YEAR! Arts for All at Celebrate South Orange, a partnership between CSO and the South Orange Performing Arts Center, will bring a full schedule of live local music and dance to the main stage. The day will close with an evening concert and community dance party! Featured performances will include: The Wisenheimers, First Baptist Church of South Orange, FELT, Matt Mattheiss + Rob Betrus, Doomsday Diaries, and RedWall.  Arts for All at Celebrate South Orange is supported by the NJ State Council on the Arts and Discover NJ Arts.

Concerts in the Park 2012
Where: Flood’s Hill in Meadowland Park, 70 N Ridgewood Road, South Orange, NJ (Rain Site: South Orange Performing Arts Center, One SOPAC Way, South Orange, NJ)
When: Wednesdays July 11, 18, 25 + August 1, 8 @ 7:30PM
How: FREE. 
 
Once again curated by SOPAC, this year’s summertime favorite Concerts in the Park series features varying music genres to sate everyone’s appetites! 

Line-up includes: reggae band Random Test, Brice Springsteen tribute band Tramps Like Us, South Orange Jazz All-Stars, Latin salsa band Swing Sabroso, and SO/MA garage bands in Rock The Hill.

For more information, call the Village of South Orange at 973.378.7457 or visit  www.southorange.org or call SOPAC at 973.313.2787 or visit www.SOPACnow.org