Orange County Great Park’s 2011 Flights & Sounds Summer Festival Continues Through Labor Day

The Orange County Great Park's 2011 Flights and Sounds Summer Festival continues with its free to the public performances until September 3rd. The Festival, which began with Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis, includes Grammy Award nominated Lucinda Williams (August 13) and closes with world renowned Preservation Hall Jazz Band (September 3).

These Friday night dance parties and Saturday night concerts celebrate the vitality and variety of American music and the growing influence of Latin American, Middle Eastern and East Indian Music and dance in the United States.

This year's outdoor Flights & Sounds Summer Festival will take place near the brand-new Palm Court Arts Complex and expansive North Lawn, under the glow of the Great Park Balloon Admission is free, and parking is $10. Visitors will also be able to enjoy the Park's inaugural exhibition in the newly opened Great Park Gallery, Plane Air Power by Jorg Dubin.

Eclectic singer and dancer Nuriya blends sizzling vocals, rumba flamenco, Afro-Cuban rhythms and Arabic melodies on August 12. Louisiana born singer and songwriter Lucinda Williams will light up the stage singing folk, country, rock and pop on August 13.

Shotgun Wedding Quintet's unique blend of gypsy funk, rap and swing will drag you to the dance floor on August 19. San Francisco's Jazz Mafia, one of the hottest, most inventive forces in jazz, will mix hip-hop symphonic music and whatever else works on August 20 for some spectacularly energizing music.

H'Sao, a six-piece band with roots in gospel, R&B, soul and African sounds will perform their high-energy music and masterful a cappella vocals on August 26. Grammy Award winner Del McCoury brings his lonesome vocals and a bluegrass band to the Great Park on August 27.

Get your "turban groove" on when BlackMahal a rollicking, unpredictable, wildly danceable band, performs its blend of hip-hop, and Punjabi funk on September 2. The world-famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band will bring the Festival to a close on September 3.

The Hangar Café will re-open in the newly renovated historic Hangar 244. It will feature a fresh selection of delicious food that will be available for purchase to enjoy at the Café or on the lawn before the dance parties and concerts. Live music begins at 8:15pm. Hangar Café opens at 6pm before all shows. Flights & Sounds Summer Festivalis presented by the Orange County Great Park and produced by the Irvine Barclay Theater. Both theater-style fixed seating and lawn space is available for all shows. Concerts and dance parties are located at the Orange County Great Park, off the 405 or 5 Freeways at Sand Canyon and Marine Way in Irvine. For more information go to www.ocgp.org

 

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