June - Texas Music Events Calendar 2012

The 2012 TMEC lists more than 500 annual events featuring live music. To update listing information for your 2012 event, please contact the Texas Music Office at music [at] governor.state.tx.us or call (512) 463-6666.

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Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp • Summer Camp
June 6-19
Schreiner University; 2100 Memorial Blvd. Kerrville, Texas
Hill Country Acoustic Music Camp
Bob Miller
1214 Oriole; Kerrville, TX 78028
(830) 896-5711; Fax (830) 896-5569
Music: Bluegrass, Country, Cowboy, Folk/Acoustic
Activities: Music Camp, Jam sessions, classroom instruction
Summer HCAMP is a 5 day acoustic music camp. Our staff consists of world class musicians and teachers from around the United States. Guitar, Banjo, Fiddle, Mandolin, Bass, Mountain Dulcimer, Hammer Dulcimer, Ukulele and Voice classes are offered. The camp is residential camp located on the Schreiner University grounds. The summer camp classes focus on instrument skills with one formal jam class daily working with a group of similar skill levels playing among the different instruments. Specific camp details, faculty line up, daily schedule and registration information are available at www.hcamp.org

Americans for the Arts Annual Convention
June 8-10
Grand Hyatt; San Antonio, TX
Americans for the Arts
1000 Vermont Avenue NW, 6th Floor; Washington, DC 20005
(202) 371-2830; Fax (202) 371-0424
Activities: Trade show/convention
Mark your calendars for June 8–10, 2012 to join more than 1,100 arts and community leaders from across the nation! Learn how your organization can adapt to the shifting economic climate and changing demographics and prepare your community for the future. San Antonio is the ideal backdrop to connect with your peers and see firsthand how arts and culture can shape a community. From the city’s River Walk and historic museums to its embrace of the visual arts and ethnic diversity, you will see how the artistic practices and traditions of the past can merge with—and help redefine—the present and future.

Forte Dallas Choral Festival
June 15-17
Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center; 2301 Flora Street, Dallas, TX 75201-2497
Crescendo Arts Enterprise
Sharon King, Operations
P.O. Box 167925; Irving, TX 75016-7925
(866) 223-4166
Music: Classical
You are cordially invited to participate in "Forte Dallas Choral Festival" in June of 2012. The Forte Dallas Choral Festival offers singers an opportunity to perform in a large chorus under the direction of one of our nation's finest choral directors, Constantina Tsolainou. In addition, this festival will allow your chorus to broaden the depth of their performances in a world-class concert hall. Visit our website: www.crescendoarts-festival.com and make plans to join us June 15-17, 2012. Tour our Dallas Cowboy Stadium, the Ballpark in Arlington (home of the Texas Rangers), the Dallas Museum of Art, and a BBQ Dinner and Dance at the infamous Southfork Ranch...just to name a few things!! Come experience all of this, but especially the magnificence of the Meyerson Symphony Center and the Forte Dallas Choral Festival!