“Around the World – A Festival of Dances” Spring Pajama Jamboree

Composers love to dance just like you! Join Festival City Symphony for a lively, toe-tapping concert featuring dance-inspired music from around the world. From the elegance of Tchaikovsky’s ballet Sleeping Beauty to Copland’s energetic Hoe-Down, this performance is bursting with rhythm and color. In honor of America’s 250th anniversary, young audience members will even have the chance to conduct the orchestra during Sousa’s patriotic favorite, Stars and Stripes Forever! Share the joy of music and motion with friends and family as Milwaukee’s own Festival City Symphony brings the stage to life—an experience sure to inspire a lifelong love of classical music!

This series of FREE, one-hour pops concerts held in the Bradley Pavilion of the Marcus Performing Arts Center (929 N. Water St. in Milwaukee) is geared towards children and families. Each concert has narration and music selections that are lively, tell a story, or demonstrate the colors of the orchestra. Sometimes audience members even get to conduct the orchestra!

Dress is casual, and there is both open floor seating in front of the orchestra and traditional seating in the rear of the hall. Pajamas, teddy bears, and blankets are welcome! Pajama Jamborees are best suited for children in K4 through fifth grade, but they are fun for young and not-so-young audience members alike!

Pajama Jamboree concerts begin at 7:00 p.m., and doors open at 6:30 p.m. No tickets or reservations are required.