Festival of Summer Nights July 9, 2011

Saturday, July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2011

As the most popular event series at the Osher Marin JCC, Festival of Summer Nights is a series of five celebrations for all ages with live music, dancing; food and cocktails; and family fun. Presented by The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, each celebration brings in hundreds of guests for an evening under the summer skies in the heart of Marin County. Ample free parking will be available. Accessing the Festival from Highway 101 is effortless, just 11 miles north of San Francisco.

CONCERT LINE-UP:

Saturday, July 9, 2011: Bluegrass Night - With folk and bluegrass favorite Hot Buttered Rum. Dinners from Roadside BBQ.
Saturday, July 16, 2011: An Evening in Puerto Rico - Music with Plena Libre. Sol Food offers dinners. Pre-event dance class to get you rolling.
Saturday, July 23, 2011: Balkan Romani Night! - Enjoy Serbian, Macedonian, Greek & Rajasthani Roma music with its wild rhythms, soulful vocals and sizzling improvisations with The Brass Mena~eri . Dinners offered will be Middle Eastern cuisine.

Saturday, July 30, 2011: Cultural Fusion - Rupa & the April Fishes returns hybrid music from Southern France, Spain, Chanson, Gypsy, reggae, Klezmer, Mexico and beyond. Dinners available from Mi Pueblo Food Center.

August 6, 2011: African Music Night - Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited, a musical visionary and fearless social critic and certainly one of the greatest African bandleaders of the past century makes his premier appearance at the Festival. More Bar B Que!

WHO: All are invited. Cocktails for 21+ at a no host bar. Tickets are $20 Members / Advance Ticket Purchases (Must be purchased by midnight on the Friday night before the event) / $25 Public and Day Of Purchases / $5 Kids 6 - 17 / Children under 6 are FREE. Tickets are available online at www.marinjcc.org or by calling 415-444-8000.

Official Website: http://www.marinjcc.org/index.php?submenu=PerformingArts&src=gendocs&ref=UpcomingPerformances&catego