Houston's Weekend Planning Guide "Weekend Fridays" Friday June 23rd, 2023 Events and concerts in Houston

Experience the deeply moving and powerful Lyric for Strings by George Walker, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Recent Sphinx Junior Division laureate Amaryn Olmeda delivers a vibrant performance of Bruch’s popular Violin Concerto No. 1. The program concludes with Dvořák’s immortal “New World” Symphony, a stirring tribute to America that captures the spirit, individuality, and limitless potential of a blossoming nation.

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[From All Music.com-David Jeffries] Able to juggle the profound and the profane along with the mainstream and the underground, rapper Ab-Soul is praised for his dense, complex rhyme schemes and thought-provoking lyrics. A member of the Black Hippy crew, he broke out as a solo artist with 2012's ambitious and acclaimed Control System, followed later in the decade by These Days... and Do What Thou Wilt., his second and third Top Ten entries on Billboard's rap chart. Ab-Soul made few appearances over the next several years, and returned in 2022 with Herbert, his fifth album for Top Dawg Entertainment.

Born Herbert Stevens IV in Los Angeles, Ab-Soul contracted Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a child, a hypersensitivity complex that left him light sensitive and wearing sunglasses most of the time. He rapped throughout high school but didn't take it seriously until after graduation, forming the group Area 51 with rapper Snake Hollywood and signing a deal with Street Beat Entertainment in 2005. The two-year deal ran out without much to show for it, but in 2007 Ab-Soul joined the Top Dawg label, with his Longterm mixtape following a year later. In 2009, he formed the Black Hippy crew with fellow Top Dawg artists ScHoolboy Q, Kendrick Lamar, and Jay Rock. Read more @All Music.com (Click Here)

The new wave music scene was stylistically diverse from its outset. Some late ‘70s new wave artists—such as Blondie, XTC, Nick Lowe, and Elvis Costello—appropriated the raw punk energy of groups like the Sex Pistols and the New York Dolls. Other early ‘80s groups like Human League, Tears for Fears, Devo, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, and Duran Duran embraced synthesizers and funk rhythms. Still, others, like the Talking Heads, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and The Police, incorporated reggae and West African rhythmic concepts to traditional rock music. Read more @Master Class.com (Click Here)

Tonight White Oak Music Hall, Downstairs "Take On Me: A New Wave 80s", party celebrating the greatest era of music, will return to dancing and singing to all of your favorite artists, including A-ha, the cure, talking heads, duran duran, depeche mode, tears for fears, blondie, and more.

Houston's Weekend Planning Guide

Friday
June 23rd, 2023

Summer Symphony Nights
Presented By Truist
Produced By Houston Symphony
@Miller Outdoor Theatre

Sam Tallent
@The Secret Group

Ab-Soul
@The House Of Blues
Bronze Peacock

Take On Me
An 80s New Wave Party
@White Oak Music Hall
Downstairs

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Friday June 23rd, 2023

Summer Symphony NightsPresented By TruistProduced By Houston Symphony@Miller Outdoor Theatre

Sam Tallent@The Secret Group

Ab-Soul@The House Of Blues Bronze Peacock