Community Calendar

Children’s Concert

Sunday, May 1
10am – 12pm
Allerton Music Barn

$5/kid or $7/adult, advanced purchase required. Purchase tickets here or call 217-333-3287. Ages 1 and up need a ticket. General admission; no refunds or exchanges.

The event kicks off at 10am with a Children’s Fair featuring an inflatable bounce house, raffles, and a local community expo. Snacks will be available for purchase. The concert will begin at 11am.

About the band: After illustrating three innovative books about the adventures of ScribbleMonster, which focuses on what the child CAN do, rather than focusing on what he or she can’t, “ScribbleJim” began applying the same approach to music in 2001. A “pioneer of kindie rock”, ScribbleMonster is comprised of five veteran Chicago-area performers with a combined 15 children and a history of creating, teaching and performing music, comedy and theater.

“ScribbleMonster plugs healthy eating with their unique brand of hard pop. A Parenting Pick.” -Parenting Magazine

Top 25 Albums For Kids: ”If there was such a category as alternative kids’ rock, ScribbleMonster would be at the top of its charts.” -AOL ParentDish

For more information on the 2016 Concert Series, click here.

Children’s Concert

Sunday, May 1
1pm – 3pm
Allerton Music Barn

$5/kid or $7/adult, advanced purchase required. Purchase tickets here or call 217-333-3287. Ages 1 and up need a ticket. General admission; no refunds or exchanges.

The event kicks off at 1pm with a Children’s Fair featuring an inflatable bounce house, raffles, and a local community expo. Snacks will be available for purchase. The concert will begin at 2pm.

About the band: After illustrating three innovative books about the adventures of ScribbleMonster, which focuses on what the child CAN do, rather than focusing on what he or she can’t, “ScribbleJim” began applying the same approach to music in 2001. A “pioneer of kindie rock”, ScribbleMonster is comprised of five veteran Chicago-area performers with a combined 15 children and a history of creating, teaching and performing music, comedy and theater.

“ScribbleMonster plugs healthy eating with their unique brand of hard pop. A Parenting Pick.” -Parenting Magazine

Top 25 Albums For Kids: ”If there was such a category as alternative kids’ rock, ScribbleMonster would be at the top of its charts.” -AOL ParentDish

For more information on the 2016 Concert Series, click here.

Kickoff Concert

Friday, May 6
6pm – 9pm
Gate House Lawn

6-7pm West of Staley | 7-9pm Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound
$5/person or $10 per family, at the gate
Food + drinks for purchase

About the bands: The jazz combo West of Staley performs a mix of jazz standards and original compositions. Although young, the members are experienced jazz performers, winning countless group and soloist awards at jazz festivals. They have played in the Jazz Band of America, performed on stages from the Iron Post to Festival Disney to Carnegie Hall, and worked and performed with jazz legends Wynton Marsalis, Wycliffe Gordon, and Shelly Berg.

“Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound are the latest in Fresh Venerable. Benefiting from years of unassuming and understated hipness, they bring forth a funky, lyrically charged racket that sits comfortably with soulful sounds the world over. Intricate but free-swinging, explosive yet intimate, fresh and green as grass. Taking cues from the dance bands of western Louisiana (and his native Midwest,), the streets (and 45’s) of New Orleans, touring African and Caribbean combos and the soul, funk & blues of his youth coupled with early , teeth-cutting experience in the verbal hotbeds of the coffeehouse scene, Cebar is a masterful synthesist of rhythmic culture.”

For more information on the 2016 Concert Series, click here.

Wednesday, May 11, 2016
6:00 PM

Urbana Civic Center
108 E Water St
Urbana, IL