Bayou City Art Festival

Title: Bayou City Art Festival
Location: Downtown Houston
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Description: The 40th Anniversary Bayou City Art Festivals – in Downtown Houston in the fall and at Memorial Park in the spring – are produced by the Art Colony Association, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to producing high quality art festivals and events. Over the past 40 years, the festivals have raised $2.6 million benefiting local arts and service organizations, as well as Houston parksthroughout the Greater Houston area.

This year’s Bayou City Art Festival Downtown marks a new collaboration with the Houston Arts Alliance Folklife + Traditional Arts Program. Working together, these partners will present the Local Roots, Global Culture performance stage. Focusing on the diverse musical traditions that find a home in the city, performances will feature styles ranging from straight-ahead Texas honkey tonk a buoyant zydeco to Nigerian highlife and Huastecan son music from Central Mexico. All performers are Houston-based and celebrate the music of their cultural community.
Start Date: 2012-10-13
End Date: 2012-10-14