Levitt Pavilion Arlington opens its fifth year
of free music under the stars on
Memorial Day weekend with the second annual
Downtown Center Stage Music Festival
and one of its biggest opening weekend line-ups
yet!
First on the Levitt stage for 2013 will be Delta
Rae, whichdebuts at 7 p.m. The up-and-coming alternative
pop band was victim to one of the few concert rain-outs last year. Since
they were originally booked for the Levitt,
Delta Rae has played an event for First
Lady Michelle Obama and appeared on The Tonight
Show with Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien
and Last Call with Carson Daly.
Sarah Jaffe, break-out Indie artist from Dallas,
takes the stage after Delta Rae. Their concerts kick off the music festival and
the Texas Power 2013 Summer Concert Series on Friday, May 24.
The three-day Downtown Arlington Center Stage
Music Festival continues at 8 p.m.
Saturday,
May 25, with another Dallas band, The Polyphonic Spree, the hard-to-describe
23-member pop choir. Opening for the Spree are
Jody Jones at 5:30 p.m. and Calhoun
at 7 p.m.
Popular area band Old 97's takes the stage to
conclude the festival at 8 p.m. Sunday,
May 26. Ryan Hamilton getsthings started before
the Old 97's at 5:30 p.m., followed by Telegraph Canyon at 7 p.m.
The Memorial Day weekend music festival is free
and includes Downtown Arlington
restaurants at the Levitt to sell food from
their menus. Restaurants include J.
Gilligan's, MountainTop Snow, Potager, Coolberry
Frozen Yogurt, Freebirds, Fuzzy's,
Maverick's Bar & Grill, Grease Monkey,
Blaze's Sports Grill, Pho Xpress and Digg's
Taco Shop.
In addition to food and free music, the festival
will have a variety of artists
selling paintings, watercolors, handmade
greeting cards, metal jewlery, glass art
and more. The festival is sponsored by Texas
Power, Downtown Arlington Management
Corp., Experience Arlington, University of Texas
at Arlington, FW Weekly and Coors.
The Texas Power 2013 Summer Concert Series runs
May 24 through July 14 with no concerts
on July 4 or 10. Children's Concerts on
Wednesdays in June are at 9:30 a.m. and
7:30 p.m. Concerts on Thursday through Sunday
are at 8 p.m. Concerts will start
at 8:30 p.m. beginning July 5.
The Levitt Pavilion has open lawn seating on
blankets and chairs. Audiences are
welcome to bring picnics, snacks and coolers
with beverages, but no glass containers.
The Levitt Pavilion is located in Downtown
Arlington at 100 W. Abram St. at the
corner of Abram and Center streets. A complete
summer concert calendar and information
about visiting the pavilion, including
directions and a parking map, can be found
on the Levitt website,
www.levittpavilionarlington.org.
Season sponsors for the Texas Power 2013 Summer
Concert Series are Texas Power,
Levitt Pavilions, the Mortimer & Mimi Levitt
Foundation, the City of Arlington,
Arlington Parks & Recreation, the Arlington
Chamber Foundation, Coors, Downtown
Arlington Management Corp., FW Weekly, Pianotex,
Bonnie and Alan Petsche, the
Star-Telegram,
Texas Health/Arlington Memorial Hospital, the
University of Texas at Arlington,
WFAA, and grants from the Arlington Cultural
Tourism Council, the Arlington Tomorrow
Foundation, the Texas Commission on the Arts and
the Union Pacific Foundation.
Editor's note: High-resolution photos are
available of allof the summer concert
artists.
About Levitt Pavilion Arlington
Last year, more than 108,900 music lovers
visited The Levitt Pavilion for the
PerformingArts in Arlington, which made its
debut in October 2008 as the fifth member of the
family of Levitt Pavilions across the country
and the only one in Texas. The pavilion
is located in Founders Plaza at the intersection
of Abram and Center streets. The
Levitt Pavilion provides more than 50 free
concerts a year with a broad-based, eclectic
list of performers from world music to jazz and
country to hot Latin rhythms. The
pavilion's programs provide the community with
an accessible gathering place for
free music and performing arts open to everyone
- all ages, all ethnicities, all
neighborhoods
and all income levels - to enjoy under the stars. For more information
and a complete calendar of summer concerts,
please visit the Web site at
www.levittpavilionarlington.org
