Festival of Summer Nights - Five Saturday Nights of Multicultural Musical Experiences!

As the most popular event series at the Osher Marin JCC, Festival of Summer Nights is a series of five celebrations for all ages with live music, dancing; food and cocktails; and family fun. Presented by The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts, each celebration brings in hundreds of guests for an evening under the summer skies in the heart of Marin County. Guests are encouraged to create a summer outdoor evening to suit their lifestyle, whether they bring the kids, or a date, dance or sit back and enjoy the evening, bring their own picnics or purchase a locally catered dinner on site. Ample free parking will be available. Accessing the Festival from Highway 101 is effortless, just 11 miles north of San Francisco.

Saturday, July 9, 2011: Bluegrass Night — With folk and bluegrass favorite Hot Buttered Rum. Dinners from Roadside BBQ.

Saturday, July 16, 2011: An Evening in Puerto Rico — Music with Plena Libre. Sol Food offers dinners. Pre-event dance class to get you rolling.

Saturday, July 23, 2011: Balkan Romani Night! — Enjoy Serbian, Macedonian, Greek & Rajasthani Roma music with its wild rhythms, soulful vocals and sizzling improvisations with The Brass Menažeri. Dinners offered will be Middle Eastern cuisine.

Saturday, July 30, 2011: Cultural Fusion — Rupa & the April Fishes returns hybrid music from Southern France, Spain, Chanson, Gypsy, reggae, Klezmer, Mexico and beyond. Dinners available from Mi Pueblo Food Center.

Saturday, August 6, 2011: African Music Night  — Thomas Mapfumo & the Blacks Unlimited, a musical visionary and fearless social critic and certainly one of the greatest African band leaders of the past century makes his premier appearance at the Festival. More Bar B Que!

WHO: All are invited. Cocktails for 21+ at a no host bar. Tickets are $20 Members / Advance Ticket Purchases (Must be purchased by midnight on the Friday night before the event) / $25 Public and Day Of Purchases/ $5 Kids 6 - 17 / Children under 6 are FREE. Tickets are available online at www.marinjcc.org or by calling 415-444-8000.

WHEN: Saturdays, July 9, 16, 23, 30 and August 6, 2011, at XXXXX p.m.

WHERE: The Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts at Osher Marin JCC, 200 North San Pedro Road, San Rafael

About Festival of Summer Nights
Having grown as the most popular event series at the Osher Marin JCC, Festival of Summer Nights has become the family-friendly, clean, safe and fog-free venue to celebrate friends, family and live music together in Marin. As eclectic as our audience, we offer tastes of sound and food from around the world with something for every age, from 2 to 102. With room for over 1,000 in our beautiful setting nestled against the hills of Marin, guests stretch out with family and friends while enjoying music and picnicking as children can play in the art room and playground. Swig Field, the field where the Festival takes place, offers a safe, confined outdoor area blocked off from our busy worlds with surprisingly great acoustics. Our Festival of Summer Nights gives guests the escape they need, whether it includes dancing, catered dinners from local restaurants, picnics with the whole family or just a chance to share a memorable evening with friends.

About the Osher Marin JCC
The Osher Marin JCC is the community center of Marin County. Epitomizing the essence of Marin, with a range of authentic cultural experiences enjoyed by many generations, the Osher Marin JCC offers award-winning facilities, abundant physical and educational activities and world-class programming relevant to our entire community today. Since the Osher Marin JCC’s founding in 1947, the center has become recognizable for its rich history of Jewish traditions and values with an unparalleled all-inclusive community spirit. For more information about the Osher Marin JCC, please visit http://www.marinjcc.org.