El Sistema-inspired Sunstate Orchestral Program plays free Hispanic Heritage concert on Tampa Riverwalk

The ensemble is in downtown on Friday.

By Ray Roa on Wed, Oct 2, 2024 at 2:03 pm

Photo via sunstateorchestralprogram.org

Sunstate Orchestral Program, which plays David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida on Oct. 4, 2024.

Venezuela’s publicly-funded El Sistema music education program represents a radical approach to social change and brings kids from disadvantaged backgrounds into the fine arts.

Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s longtime music and artistic director, is one of the now-worldwide program’s most famous alum, along with Tampeño Francisco Díaz, President, Music Director, and Conductor of the Sunstate Orchestral Program, which plays this free gig for the Straz Center’s Fourth Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration.

There's no cover for the Arts Legacy Remix Fourth Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration happening Friday, Oct. 4 on the Riverwalk Stage at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa.

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Ray Roa

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...

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