Name: Pride Music and Art Festival: Let the Music Play
Start: 2020-03-08T17:00:00-04:00
End: 2020-03-08
Location: HCC Ybor City Performing Arts Building

Pride Music and Art Festival: Let the Music Play

Tampa Bay Pride Band presents the Tampa Bay Symphony Winds. The Tampa Bay Symphony Winds consists of members of the woodwind, brass, and percussion families.The concert repertoire includes a wide variety of original wind band compositions, orchestra transcriptions/arrangements, light thematic and popular tunes. The TBSW Performs 5 or more themed concerts throughout the year. Tampa Bay Pride Band was formed in August 2014 and had their first down beat February 2015 because they love nothing more than celebrating diversity through music. They have the desire to have an outstanding professional instrumental ensemble, proud affiliate with the LGBT Community of Tampa Bay, and most importantly be inclusive and a beacon of pride for ALL members of the Tampa Bay community.Our mission is to support the LGBT and straight communities in the Tampa Bay Area through the arts with a comprehensive band program to include a marching band, jazz band, and color guard.

Tampa Bay Pride Band

The Tampa Bay Pride Band presents the 3rd Annual Pride Music and Art Festival which serves as the kickoff Pride event in Tampa.

HCC Ybor City Performing Arts Building

The Tampa Bay Pride Band presents the 3rd Annual Pride Music and Art Festival!&nbsp;5:00 - 7:00 pm: Art Festival with Silent Auction and Pop-Up Music Performances7:30 pm: Tampa Bay Pride Band ConcertNOTE: Daylight Saving Time&nbsp; will begin on Sunday, March 8, 2020.The Pride Music and Art Festival is an annual concert and art festival that celebrates and combines the visual and musical arts of Tampa Bay. It also serves as the kickoff Pride event here in Tampa. The Pride Music and Art Festival allows us as an arts community to stand together and celebrate diversity through music and art.The Festival will take place Sunday, March 8th at 5pm. The evening will begin with artists from all around Tampa Bay displaying pieces of original work that center around one theme. What does diversity mean to me? Come meet the artists. Their artwork will be displayed and available for purchase from 5pm – 7pm. Throughout the evening, we will have surprise pop-up performances from groups around the Tampa Bay area from voice, instrumental, and dance. Light refreshments will be served.
 “Let the music play…he won’t get away…let the music play and he’ll come back to you.” (1983, Lyrics by Barbosa &amp; Chisholm)
While we all feel the inexorable pull of music as it urges us to dance, or elicits feelings and memories, musicians are often drawn back to music for alternately similar and different reasons. The Tampa Bay Symphonic Winds and Tampa Bay Pride Band exist not only to support our community through music and LGBTQIA+ Initiatives, but also to fulfill the musical enrichment of our members (and the community). Many of us have been drawn back to band performance through our desire to reconnect with our instruments – some of our members have joined the band after decades of missing playing their instruments.
At this year’s Pride Music and Art Festival, we would like to pay tribute to the music making experience unique to band programs. Rather than performing an entire concert of pop selections based on our theme inspired by the 1983 hit “Let the Music Play” by Shannon, we have decided to share our version of a Prism Concert. At this concert, which begins at 7:30 pm, you will experience a taste of many of the musical experiences that American bands have to offer: Classic hits for the concert band, solo works featuring the talent of our own members, and a few other surprises. Featured works include “Rocky Point Holiday” by Ron Nelson, two movements of Johann de Meij’s epic “Symphony No. 1: Lord of the Rings”; and two exciting new works for band – “Until the Scars (2019)” by John Mackey and a fun performance-art piece “Paper Cut” by Alex Shapiro utilizing black light effects and…Paper!
With the Support of the Arts Council of Hillsborough County and the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners, we thank you for your support and being a recipient of the Annual Arts Council Community Arts Impact Grants Project Specific Grant. The Tampa Bay Pride Band is a 501(c)3 Organization. All funds received for this event go towards the continuation of this project and the Tampa Bay Pride Band.
If the music is drawing you back to your instrument…or if it has ignited the desire to learn from scratch in the company of some of the Tampa Bay Area’s finest teachers and musicians, then we’d love to help you in your journey to “Let the Music Play!” Visit our website www.tampabayprideband.org for more information on how to join!
If you are interested in being an artist at our show please send an email to tbpbpresident@gmail.com.

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