Since the late 90′s & way before legal age DJ Metric has been captivating audiences & clubheads
with his wide-ranging electic blend of party rocking tracks, versitile DJ skills & flawless mixing
abilities. Doubling as both a Club DJ & Producer/Remixer DJ Metric spends half of his time in the
studio & the other half in the clubs. Over the last 13 years thru consistency & hard work DJ Metric
has built a widely respected club following in Southern California and has cemented his position as
one of Hollywood’s premiere music selectors. For years Los Angeles’s highest grossing, most
sought after & needless to say “least accessable” party destinations have called upon DJ Metric
nightly to set the mood for they’re special events & night after night he delivers.

Among these are Victor Drai’s “Drai’s Hollywood” at the W Hotel Hollywood, Spare Room,
Teddy’s & Tropicana Bar at The Hollywood Roosevelt, Vinny Leresca’s Premiere, David
Judaken’s My Studio, the all new Rolling Stone Lounge, STK’s Coco De Ville & Boudoir,
Chuck Pacheco & Reza Roohi’s Villa Lounge, Adolfo Suaya’s Delux, & The Dolce Group’s
Les Duex just to name a few. To add to that over the years DJ Metric has entertained a wide
variety of high profile clients, including but not limited to Academy Award winning actors, world
famous singers & musicians, Internationally recognized professional atheletes & Hollywood
socialite types alike, some of which include: Kim Kardashian, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jamie
Foxx, Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson, Justin Timberlake, Jessica Biel, Joe Pesci, Rashida
Jones, John Mayer, P. Diddy, Ludacris, Drew Barrymore, Bar Rafaeli, Lindsay Lohan,
Paris Hilton, Adrian Grenier, Christina Aguilera, Natalie Portman, Benicio Del Toro,

Jennifer Connelly, Luis Miguel & more.
DJ Metric has already garnered a great deal of attention within the entertainment industry. Yet, the
hollywood spotlight has not jaded this young professional, who still focuses on the fundamentals of
good DJing including; beat matching, scratching & most importantly song selection. An avid music
enthusiest and vinyl record collector since the age of ten, DJ Metric by his admission stated that
his best strength still lies in his ability to read any crowd & therefore, rock any crowd.

El Paso will get a dose of DJ Metric as he brings his beats on Black Friday to Rockstar Fusion Lounge. This will be an event you don’t want to miss!

Rockstar Presents Dim
Mak Records artist DJ Metric
Black Friday
Nov 25th
9pm
with resident Dj Joseph G
at Rockstar Sushi Fusion Lounge
1700 Zaragoza Ste. 153
El Paso, TX 79936
Drink Specials and $99 Bottles

No Cover before 11pm

On Thursday December 1, 2011 (World Aids Day), Plum City Lounge will turn (RED) for the evening!  The Border AIDS Partnership, MOD Creative Group and Plum City Lounge have teamed together for a phenomenal event to celebrate World AIDS Day through art, fashion and music!  Art & Fashion for Life is a 1st annual event and is expecting attendance from 400-600 supporters throughout the evening.

The Border AIDS Partnership (BAP) is one of more than 30 community partnerships in the U.S. affiliated with the National AIDS Fund, an organization that promotes leadership and generates resources for effective community responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic.  Since 1996, the Border AIDS partnership has distributed, in the form of effective grants, more than $1.5 million to support innovative HIV prevention programs. Belvedere Vodka Product RED donates 50% of sales to support Aids awareness in Africa, with the support of celebrities like Usher Raymond, and will be supporting this event in the Sun City.  Local artists have donated pieces for the silent art auction that will be held from 6-8pm.  MOD Creative Group and Plum City Lounge are proud to be hosting this event and have high hopes that a new awareness of AIDS will arise between our young professional community here on the border. Crystal Bocanegra of MOD Creative Group knows that in order to get our young professional community involved in philanthropy and awareness is by making events fun and entertaining, which is exactly what this event will be.

Hors des houvres catered by Carnitas Queretero will be served along with complimentary signature (RED) Belvedere Vodka cocktails from 6:00 – 8:00 pm while supporters browse the art that is up for auction. 100% of proceeds from the silent art auction will be donated to the Border Aids Partnership. The fashion runway will light-up at 8:30 and again at midnight by stores: Ella Blu, Hommework Boutique & Dillard’s Sunland Park.  The evening will be full of entertainment starting off with the humorous Joey Cradio from 104.3 FM hosting with live performances by Desert Eagle Productions dance studio & the very popular Diamond will have a special live performance as well!  The 1st 100 guests will be greeted with a silver quilted re-usable gift bag filled with goodies, and these will be at a first come, first serve basis. Tab-Care will be setting up shop outside of Plum City Lounge offering free HIV testing, a $60.00 savings.

The event tickets are being sold in advance starting November 1, 2011 at all Carnitas Queretero locations, Ella Blu and Hommework for a donated amount of $15.00.  All proceeds will be benefiting The Border AIDS Partnership.

For more information regarding this event, please contact:

Crystal Bocanegra

915-603-1044

crystal@modcreativegrp.com

Vikki Carr is one of the bestloved and most accomplished entertainers in the United States, Latin America and Europe. This year marks the fifth decade of a career in which she has won three Grammy Awards and has released over 60 bestselling recordings. She has performed for the Queen of England, five United States Presidents, wartime soldiers in Vietnam and soldout audiences around the world. She has worked in radio, television, film and theater. Her music embraces two languages and she is among the first artists to bridge the cultures of the United States and Latin America, paving the way for many performers today.

Born in El Paso, Texas, and raised in Southern California, Vikki Carr, the eldest of seven children, began performing at the tender age of four singing Adeste Fidelis in Latin at a Christmas program. She was signed to a contract with Liberty Records in 1961. She recorded He ‘s A Rebel, which first became a hit in Australia. That title was soon followed by the unforgettable release, It Must Be Him, which charged up the charts in England. One year later, the single was released in the United States and earned Carr three Grammy Award nominations. The international hit emerged again when she and the song were featured in the storyline of the Academy Award winning movie Moonstruck. After It Must Be Him came a string of hits including With Pen In Hand, for which she received her fourth Grammy Award nomination,

The Lesson, Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You and For Once in My Life. In 2008 she was awarded Lifetime Achievement Honors by the Latin American Grammy Foundation.

The diversity of her rich voice is impressive. She can belt out the blues or touch the heart with a soft romantic ballad. Frank Sinatra said, “She possesses my kind of voice”, Dean Martin called her “the best girl singer in the business” and Bing Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald named her among their three favorite female singers of all time. Elvis Presley was also very fond of her and even remarked on stage in Las Vegas many times that Vikki Carr was one of his favorite singers and that he liked her because ”she sang from the gut” and introduced her at many of his personal appearances in which she attended.

Vikki Carr has received too many prestigious awards to list. In addition to the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, these honors include the 2005 National Hispanic Media Coalition Impact Lifetime Achievement Award, 2003 Latino Spirit Award, 2003 Tito Guizar Award, 2002 Trefoil Award, 2000 Inductee, Latino Legends Hall of Fame, 1998 Imagen Foundation “Humanitarian Award, 1996 Hispanic Heritage Award, 1988 Nosotros Golden Eagle Award, 1984 Hispanic Woman of the Year, 1981 Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, 1974 Doctorate in Law from San Diego University and Doctorate in Fine Arts from St. Edwards University, 1972 American Guild of Variety Artist’s “Entertainer of the Year”, and the Los Angeles Times’ highly respected “Woman of the Year” for 1970. She has earned the career achievement award of the Association of Hispanic Critics, Chicago’s Ovation Award, the YWCA Silver Achievement Award and was honored in 1990 by the City of Hope with the Founder of Hope Award. In 1991, she was presented the Girl Scouts of America Award.

Respected as both an artist and a humanitarian, she devotes time to many charities including The United Way, The American Lung Association, Cancer Therapy and Research Center, The Muscular Dystrophy Association and St Jude’s Hospital. For 22 years she held benefit concerts to support Holy Cross High School in San Antonio. In 1971 Vikki established the Vikki Carr Scholarship Foundation, dedicated to offering college scholarships to Latino students in California and Texas. To date, the Foundation has awarded more than 280 scholarships totaling over a quarter of a million dollars. “My voice is a gift and a gift is nothing unless you can share it. The Foundation is one of the ways that I am able to share my gift,” said Carr. “The Foundation seeks to help young Mexican-American students achieve their goals through a college education, something I myself was never able to do.”

2010 marks the fifth decade of this highly successful and multi-faceted career. To mark this accomplishment she has teamed with mariachi master Mr. Jose Hernandez and his Mariachi Sol De Mexico (www.soldemexicoonline.com) to produce a 50th Anniversary Album. The recording includes new songs as well as recognizable standards featuring lush string and vocal arrangements by Mr. Hernandez.

DAVID HANDEL, CONDUCTOR CANDIDATE #2,

LEADS EL PASO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA AND EL PASO AUDIENCE FAVORITE, CLASSICAL GUITARIST PEPE ROMERO, IN LATIN PROGRAM

El Paso, Texas  –  David Handel, EPSO Conductor Candidate #2, will take the baton on October 21 and 22, 2011, 7:30pm at the Plaza Theatre and lead the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and guest soloist Pepe Romero, guitar, in a Latin program including: Lopez-Buchardo’s Escenas Argentinas, Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez with Pepe Romero, and Berlioz’ Fantastic Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist.  Handel is currently the music director of the National Symphony Orchestra of Bolivia. His achievements with the National Symphony of Bolivia have made that organization a model for orchestra-building in Latin America. Meanwhile, Handel’s energy and critical acclaim have made him one of the busiest guest conductors with many of the region’s most important orchestras.

“I am really delighted to have the opportunity to work with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra on so wonderful a program and with the renowned Pepe Romero, surely the definitive soloist for the Concierto de Aranjuez. As an American conductor, and having spent so much of my professional life working in Latin America, I suspect I will feel right at home in the unique cultural mix that is the region’s signature.  I have heard marvelous things about the Orchestra and the community and I am very much looking forward to our collaboration.” – David Handel

In March 2011, Handel was named principal guest conductor of the highly acclaimed Russian   Philharmonic — Moscow City Symphony at the Moscow Music  Center’s Svetlanov Hall, where he will lead numerous programs, recordings and concert tours. Handel is a graduate of the University of Michigan and twice a Fulbright Senior Scholar.

SOLOIST:  There are very few true living legends in the world of classical music, few who have sustained greatness and grown throughout their lives.  Pepe Romero is such an artist.  He has been honored by kings, heads of state, and major institutions – the accolades continue to pour in.  But to Romero, his most important contribution has been reaching the common man. He has communicated the richness and beauty of the classical guitar to millions of people throughout the world, becoming an ambassador of classical music and of the classical guitar. Visit  www.peperomero.com for more information on Pepe Romero.

VOTE: Audience members can vote on their favorite conductor via Facebook or Twitter.  In addition, guests who miss a performance can still be a part of the show through our YouTube channel. Each vote counts and will help assist the Search Committee in naming the new leader of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra.

OPENING NOTES: Conductor David Handel and Guitarist Pepe Romero will join Assistant Conductor Andres Moran in a discussion of the evening’s program 6:30 p.m. prior to both performances in the Philanthropy Theatre.

SUBSCRIBERS: Symphony subscribers will have an opportunity to meet the Conductor, David Handel, on Thursday, October 20 at a pre-dress rehearsal reception from 5:30pm to 6:45pm in the Plaza Theatre lobby.   In addition, subscribers can stay for the dress rehearsal, which starts at 7:00pm, and observe the interactions between the musicians and conductor.

TICKET PRICES: $40, $35, $30, $20 and $15 plus applicable fees.  Student prices are $10 and $8 plus applicable fees.  Tickets are available through the El Paso Symphony Office (915) 532-3776, on-line www.epso.org or at www.ticketmaster.com.

The October concerts are generously sponsored by Helen of Troy.  Mr. Romero is generously underwritten by Rocky Mountain Mortgage. The El Paso Symphony’s 2011-2012 Season is presented with the support of the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts.

RECAP:

Thursday, October 20, 5:30pm Plaza Theatre Lobby

“Pre-Dress Rehearsal Reception – Meet the Conductor”

Free: For subscribers only

Friday, October 21 & Saturday, October 22, 6:30pm, Philanthropy Theatre @ the Plaza Theatre

“Opening Notes” Pre-concert talk

Free: Open to public

Friday, October 21 & Saturday, October 22, 2011, 7:30pm Plaza Theatre

El Paso Symphony Orchestra

David Handel, Conductor

Pepe Romero, Guitar

Lopez-Buchardo Escenas Argentinas

Rodrigio Concierto de Aranjuez

Berlioz Fantastic Symphony: An Episode in the Life of an Artist

Single ticket prices:  $40, $35, $30, $20, $15; Student prices are $10 and 8 plus applicable fees. Available at (915) 532-3776, www.epso.org or www.ticketmaster.com

NOTE TO EDITORS: For further information and photos contact Rosemary Flores at (915) 532-3776 or rosemary@epso.org.

El Paso Symphony Orchestra

P.O. Box 180

El Paso, Texas  79942

(915) 532-3776

(915) 533-8162 fax

www.epso.org

By Aaron Martinez

High-energy crowds covered in neon glowing outfits packed the Sun City Music Festival to experience the loud thumping and pulsating beats of local and international DJs Sept. 3-4 at Cohen Stadium.

“It was great music festival. It was fun and we had world class Dj’s come to us,” said, Charles Liming, who was one of the first people to enter the event. “El Paso showed up to support the festival and to help bring many more like this. It was a massively successful event.”

The two-day event featured more than 30 artists with the performances starting at 6 p.m. and lasting until 2 a.m. with three stages set up around Cohen Stadium with non-stop performances on each stage throughout the night. While the official attendances numbers have yet to be released, thousands of El Pasoans turned up to take in the sights and sounds.

The opening day of the festival was highlighted by performance by Armin Van Buuren, Gabriel & Dresden and Afrojack. Armin Van Buuren closed out the night on the main stage with his performance making the crowd go wild with them jumping and dancing to his sounds throughout his set.

“My favorite performance had to be Armin Van Buren, the man is a genius,” said HYPERLINK “http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=576616262″ Julio Vargas, an aspiring DJ who took the opportunity to listen and learn from some of the best DJs around the world. “Great music and great feel for the crowd. A perfect way to end the first night.”

Afrojack’s performance garnished one of the biggest crowds of the festival with the artist tapping in to material from his yet-to-be-released new album. The duo from San Francisco, Gabriel and Dresden, put on the most energetic and crowd pleasing session of the first night.

“Gabriel and Dresden were just amazing,” Liming said. “They had me dancing and jumping the whole time. The whole crowd was very in to them. It was electric.”

The second day of the festival was highlighted by performances by Crystal Castles, Paul Van Dyk and Sander Van Doorn.

“Sunday was awesome. It was a beautiful cloudy night filled with great music. Crystal Castles was one of my favorites,” said Krystal Rivera, who danced the night away. “Everyone went crazy trying to get a good spot. It was definitely energetic, I couldn’t stop dancing.”

Some of the local artists that got a chance to showcase their talents were Esteban Carrasco, Jay Hernandez, Midnight Response Saturday and Bulletproof Tiger.

“We not only got to see great internationally famous DJs, but the concert showcased some of the rising talent in our local house music scene,” said Irma Almanza, who saw Carrasco perform at both Sun City Music Festival and Minerpalooza. “So this concert was great for young artist here in El Paso.”

After the success of the Sun City Music Festival, El Pasoans are hoping this event will become a staple of the city and will encourage other big house music concerts to come to the Sun City.

“With the way we showed up to this event, I was proud to be an El Pasoan,” Liming said. “We showed we can handle festivals like this and will support them. Bring them on.”

El Paso, TX, August 9, 2011: Carlos Santana and the Santana Band will return to El Paso, September 16 at the Don Haskins Center with their (SOCC) Sound of Collective Consciousness Tour. The concert will feature special guest Michael Franti & Spearhead.

Carlos Santana has been performing in El Paso since 1996, and this will be his first appearance in three years. Carlos and the Santana Band will perform classics from the group’s four-decades-long career, and spotlight songs from Santana’s latest album, Guitar Heaven: The Greatest Guitar Classics of All Time¬ (2010, Arista Records). Carlos Santana has had a long and prosperous career culminating with his latest release – Guitar Heaven. Santana’s— Guitar Heaven is Santana’s 29th Billboard Top 200-charting release, 12th Top Ten album debut, and third Top 10 debut in the past five years.

Michael Franti is the creator and lead singer of Michael Franti & Spearhead. For more than two decades, the Bay Area-born Franti has built a diverse and inspiring repertoire of music, including his most recent release, The Sound of Sunshine—the highest Billboard 200 chart debut of his career.

Santana has been electrifying audiences for more than 40 years, from Woodstock in 1969 to the return to El Paso on September 16. Santana has never ceased to mesmerize audiences with his searing guitar work and rich guitar tones intertwined with his signature combination of multi cultural and multi genre styled penned songs. The group has sold more than 100 million records and reached more than 100 million fans at concerts worldwide. To date, Santana has won ten GRAMMY® Awards, including a record-tying nine for a single project, 1999’s Supernatural (including Album of the Year and Record of the Year for “Smooth”).

Carlos Santana is also involved with the Milagro Foundation which he and his family founded in 1998. The Milagro Foundation benefits undeserved and vulnerable children around the world by making grants to community based tax exempt organizations that work with children in the areas of education, health and the arts. The Milagro Foundation is dedicated to making a difference in the lives of children. Fifty cents ($.50) from each ticket sold from the El Paso concert will benefit the Milagro Foundation.

Do not miss the return of Santana to
El Paso – Friday night, September 16 7:30 PM.

Tickets ON SALE at
www.ticketmaster.com and www.stonecityattractions.com
For more information: www.santana.com or
www.stonecityattractions.com

The Saturday set times for the Sun City Music Festival have been released. All the artist will be dropping the beats between 6pm and 2am.

Here are the times:

SUN CITY STAGE
12:00 – 2:00 // Armin Van Buuren
10:30 – 12:00 // Gabriel & Dresden
9:00 – 1030 // Afrojack
8:00 – 0900 // Funkagenda
7:00 – 8:00 // DJ Rich
6:00 – 7:00 // Esteban Carrasco

ELECTRO CACTUS STAGE
12:30 – 2:00 // Wolfgang Gartner
11:00 – 12:30 // SJ & RM
9:30 – 11:00 // La Riots
8:00 – 9:30 // Andrew Parsons
7:00 – 8:00 // Alftron
6:00 – 7:00 // Jay Hernandez

BASS DUNES STAGE
12:00 – 2:00 // Andy C
10:30 – 12:00 // Feed Me
9:00 – 10:30 // Flinch
8:00 – 9:00 // Exceed
7:00 – 8:00 // Bulletproof Tiger
6:30 – 7:00 // Amer
6:00 – 6:30 // Midnight Response Saturday

Visit http://www.suncitymusicfestival.com for more info and visit: http://www.groovetickets.com for tickets.

For the first time in history, El Paso will host a large-scale music festival boasting over 30 of the world’s most famous electronic music artists on three stages this Labor Day weekend. The festival will be held at Cohen Stadium on September 3^rd and 4^th.

The line up is almost a who’s who of electronic music artists with the likes of Dutch producer and DJ Armin Van Buuren, who’s been voted the #1 DJ in the world 4 times in a row and has played in some of the world’s largest events including in Amsterdam where he preformed for 200,000 people. Paul Van Dyk, who is a Grammy nominated DJ and producer and was also ranked as the #1 DJ in the world twice before. Afrojack, a current in demand DJ and producer working with the artists such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kid Cudi, David Guetta, Black Eyed Peas, Pitbull and many more. Some of the other artists at this years Sun City Music Festival include; Chuckie, Crystal Castles, Cosmic Gate, Gabriel & Dresden, Sidney Samson, Chris Lake and more. One of the big attractions happening on Sunday will be the DayGlow Blu, a show billed as the “World’s Largest Paint Party”.

The festival also wanted to showcase El Paso’s local talent and will be giving the spotlight to; Bulletproof Tiger, Johnny Kage, DJ Rich, Alftron Blkmth, Esteban Carrasco, The DA, Jay Hernandez, DJ Panda and Astrodudes.

Promoters for the festival (SMG Events) are well known regionally for brining some of the top electronic music artists in the world to El Paso on a regular basis, selling out local venues each time.  This past May SMG Events hosted the Tiesto Live event at Cohen Stadium, which drew a crowd of nearly 10,000 fans. The Sun City Music Festival hopes to ride on the coat tails of this success as promoters are expecting 10,000 – 15,000 each day. “Our focus is to bring something this massive to El Paso not just for the music lovers and to ensure the event is a success, but to entice people in other cities to come get a taste of our city and see what a great place it is to visit.  There is so much culture and history in El Paso and the only way people from elsewhere will see that, is if we draw them in with things that they can’t get in their own city.  Once we have them here, they won’t be able to help but fall in love with the Sun City.  We expect attendees to support our local economy Labor Day weekend and come back to visit us every year.” stated Alby Bocanegra, Business and Media Relations Representative for SCMF.

As if that’s not enough SMG Events (SCMF) has aligned with The El Paso Police Foundation and will donate a portion of each ticket sold to the EPPF. “We (SCMF Organizers) appreciate and fully support our uniformed officers that are out risking their lives protecting out streets.  If through this festival we can assist by donating funds that would provide a vest that could potentially save even one officer’s life then it’s worth our efforts.  We’re proud of our city’s ranking as the safest city in the nation and if we can make a small impact on the officer’s quality of life that helped us earn that ranking then we are all for it.” stated Bocanegra. Another alliance is with The City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department where a percentage of ticket sales will be donated to programs geared toward bringing music and arts to the children of our community.

Tickets for SCMF can be purchased at www.groovetickets.com or locally at The Headstand and All That Music.

Visit www.suncitymusicfestival.com for more info.

Sun City Music Festival

The University of Texas at El Paso will celebrate its 21st annual Minerpalooza, the campus’ largest and loudest pep rally, on Sept. 2.

Minerpalooza will take place from 6 p.m. to midnight in the center of campus, near University Avenue and Hawthorne Street. The kick-off bash celebrates the beginning of the school year and all UTEP athletic programs, including the start of the new football season.

On Sept. 3, the Miner football team faces off against the Seawolves of Stony Brook University, located in Stony Brook, N.Y. It will be the first time the teams meet on the field.

“We celebrate all athletics; we celebrate all students coming back to campus,” said Charlie Gibbens, director of residence life at UTEP and chair of the Minerpalooza committee. “This is a chance for us to say welcome back to the entire University and El Paso community.”

For 21 years, the annual back-to-school tradition has welcomed the community with one of the biggest fundraising events for student organizations on campus. Admission is free and open to the public. Tickets for games and food will be available for purchase.

The event offers live entertainment, inflatables for children, a kids’ zone, a carnival and a pep rally with Coach Mike Price, President Diana Natalicio, Paydirt Pete, the UTEP Cheerleaders and the Golddiggers. Entertainment will be provided by bands Del Rio, Red City Blue, Frontera Bugalú, and DJs Esteban Carrasco and Johnny Kage.

“It’s an exciting opportunity to come out. You get to be up and close with the football team. You get to be up close and meet the president,” Gibbens said. “This event really helps students get a really good understanding of what the University is about.”

This is an opportunity for students to bring their families to campus to show them where they spend most of their time, said Erika Portillo, a student development coordinator and one of the organizers of Minerpalooza.

Excitement for Minerpalooza starts during welcome back week, said Portillo, who has been involved with organizing the event for five years.

“The football season is about to start; for freshman, they don’t know what to expect,” she said. “I think the anticipation of a new season, new school year and new event (Minerpalooza) is exciting for them. We have returning students that have been to it in years past and they come back because they know there are so many people, so much activity, music and food.”

For more information, visit www.utep.edu/minerpalooza.

Combine on one stage for one night only!

“Wow!”  Followed by assorted “oohs” and “ahhs” and more than a few choruses of “oh my gosh,” and you’ve summed up the audience reaction to the Grand Rapids Symphony’s “Cirque de la Symphony” show… – JEFFREY KACZMARCZYK, The Grand Rapids Press

Magnificent, sexy and breath-taking! Scary, awesome and totally entertaining. Even P.T. Barnum would’ve loved this show! – PRESTON KIRK, Now Playing Austin

The El Paso Symphony Orchestra presents Cirque de la Symphonie Thursday, August, 25, 2011, 7:30pm at the Plaza Theatre. This show has been thrilling audiences all over the United States and now El Pasoans will have the opportunity to experience the magic and marvel in amazement as high flying aerialists and acrobats execute amazing feats set to classical masterpieces like Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, Bizet’s Carmen, Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah performed by the El Paso Symphony Orchestra and led by Andy Moran.

Cirque de la Symphonie is an exciting production designed to bring the magic of cirque to the music hall.  It is an elegant adaptation of some of the most amazing cirque performances witnessed anywhere, and it showcases many of the best artists in the world. The audience is thrilled and bedazzled by aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen. These are some of the most accomplished veterans of exceptional cirque programs from across the globe. They include world record holders, gold-medal winners of international competitions, Olympians and some of the most original talent ever seen. Their performances are uniquely adapted to be staged the symphony, and each artist’s performance is choreographed to the music.

When the artists of Cirque de la Symphonie perform in front of the full orchestra, an incredible fusion of these two great art forms takes place. The aerialists and acrobats turn the concert into a three dimensional entertainment extravaganza, and the orchestra seems to play with enhanced enthusiasm.  Veteran concert-goers and new patrons alike are thrilled by the exhilarating cirque performances combined with the majesty of a live symphony orchestra.

Ticket Prices are $75, $60, $45 and $35 plus applicable fees.  Tickets are available through the El Paso Symphony Orchestra:  (915) 532-3776 online at www.epso.org.    Tickets may also be purchased through any Ticketmaster outlet, at www.ticketmaster.com or at the Plaza Theatre box office.

The El Paso Symphony’s 2011-2012 Season is presented with the support of the City of El Paso Museums and Cultural Affairs Department and the Texas Commission on the Arts.