Nights on Blue Bayou: City Soundscapes
Downtown’s Sabine Promenade

Music and performance under the stars and the downtown skyline on the Buffalo Bayou. Presented in collaboration with the Buffalo Bayou Partnership and University of Houston’s Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts.

All events at downtown’s Sabine Promenade
Use parking Lot H off Memorial Drive just before downtown.

FREE ADMISSION. Blankets and lawn chairs encouraged. Refreshments will be available for purchase.  Pontoon boat rides will also be available.

Thursday October 11 – 7:00pm
Taylor McFerrin
A one-man show, Taylor McFerrin (son of Bobby, and clearly inheritor of his musical abilities) seamlessly builds songs from scratch with his ambitious live performance. Fender Rhodes, Synths, Samples, Vocals and Beatboxing are meshed together as Taylor builds from his roots in 60s Soul to his vision of future Hip-Hop.

Thursday November 15 – 7:00pm
Sona
A collaboration between filmmaker Alfred Guzzetti and composer Kurt Stallman. Includes cityscape images accompanied by ambient sounds recorded in Houston and arranged electronically, and interspersed with performances by the renowned Enso String Quartet. Presented in collaboration with Aurora Picture Show.

Thursday Dec 6 –  7:00pm
Environmental light and sound installation by video artist, VJ and software designer Johnny DeKam, and his collaborator, Los Angeles-based electronic musician Steve Nalepa. DeKam has exhibited or performed at art museums and performance venues throughout the world including The Museum of the Moving Image, KIASMA Helsinki, and the New York Video Art Festival. DeKam has recently expanded his repertoire by working with opera, theater and major concert tour productions. As a VJ, DeKam has performed and toured with such notables as Sasha and John Digweed, Eminem, Dream Theater, and electronic music pioneer Thomas Dolby. Nalepa is considered a key node in the west coast audiovisual scene and is known for producing spectacular audiovisual events and sharing bills with some of the world’s best electronic musicians and collaborators.

The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts at the University of Houston cultivates collaboration in the performing, visual and literary arts. The Center fuels the "life cycle" of interdisciplinary artists – from students, to emerging artists, to renowned performers, creators, and thinkers. Each fall and spring, the center offers public events, creative development and teaching residencies, and courses that explore the concepts and practices of interdisciplinary exchange.

For more information, call 713-752-0314 x3 or email tsmith@buffalobayou.org.