Balboa Park Concerts Information

Balboa Park, which traces its origins back to 1868, is a 1,200-acrea land with flowing arts and cultures located close to Downtown San Diego. This park is the home to 15 major museums in the city, picturesque gardens, award-winning art venues, high-quality restaurants, famous attractions and just a few to name here. Its ever-changing event calendar nourishes visitors with a diversity of fun every time they drop in at this land, and new offers are added frequently to update visitors' experience.

Moreover, arrays of historical and featured constructions and buildings inside the park have displayed the architectural marvels over century-plus years and placed the park onto the list of National Historic Landmark in 1977. Just to say that only a visit to it will be enough to demonstrate all amazement about this world-renowned public recreational park. In order to know more about this landscaped oasis, please visit its website and check every aspect engaging to you.

Balboa Park

http://www.balboapark.org/

Every day, a large number of events happen at various venues within Balboa Park, such as inspiring exhibitions in museums, exciting films at modern movie theaters and educational lectures. Therefore, visitors often get difficulties in deciding which to do or to see among these tremendous options. As a result, visitors are advised to work out a clear tour schedule before their trips. Check the following website to find out what is going on at Balboa Park during your visit:

Event Calendar

http://www.balboapark.org/calendar

If you are concert enthusiasts and do not want to skip any opportunity to enjoy an unbeatable live concert in this stunning park, just go with our article which includes an in-depth guide on Balboa Park concerts. Bear in mind what we have mentioned in the article and you are ensured to get a musical tour in the park!

The park houses 9 venues for performing arts, dedicated respectively to dances, youth ballet, theatres, symphony and concerts. If you would love to appreciate a live concert or immersive dancing or musical theatre, be sure to view the event info for each venue online and discover the one that interests you or your family. Listed below are nine performing arts venues inside Balboa Park:

- Bon Temps Social Club

- Civic Dance Arts

- Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater

- San Diego Civic Youth Ballet

- San Diego Junior Theatre

- San Diego Youth Symphony

- Spreckels Organ Pavilion

- Starlight Theatre and Starlight Bowl

- The Old Globe

Performing Arts

http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/Performing%20Arts

After knowing the frequent sites for concerts and other performing arts, next we are going to focus on Spreckels Organ Pavilion, one of the most celebrated concert venues in San Diego. This state-of-an-art building is located at 1549 EI Prado #10, nearly in the center of Balboa Park and close to San Diego Museum of Man. Starting from 1917, every Sunday there are Free Organ Concerts in this optimal arena, and coming to Spreckels Organ Pavilion each Sunday and watching free organ concerts have become a tradition for San Diegoers as well as travelers from all over the world.

These concerts begin at 2 pm and last one hour on Sundays. Sponsored by the City of San Diego Park and Recreational Department and Spreckels Organ Society, these concerts are mostly performed by Dr. Carol Williams, one of the most prominent civic organists and artistic directors of the Spreckels Organ Society. Upcoming Free Organ Concerts include:

- May 29: Carol Williams

- June 5: Youth Organists Concert

- June 12: Carol Williams

- June 19: Carol Williams

- June 26: Carol Williams

- July 3: Robert Plimpton

- July 10: Carol Williams

Besides the regular Free Sunday Organ Concerts, each year Spreckels Organ Pavilion hosts the International Summer Organ Festival which happens every Monday evening at 7:30 pm from mid-June to August. All the concerts are FREE! This special festival brings dozens of world-recognized concert or theater organists and artistic directors to the Pavilion. When it comes to 2011, this year's Summer Organ Festival will begin from Monday evening on June 20 and come to the finale on August 29. On the following website, you can find a complete concerts schedule.

2011 Summer Organ Festival

http://sosorgan.org/festival2011sked.htm

If you have any enquiry about the concerts above, please contact Spreckels Organ Pavilion at 619-702-8138m, or visit its website for further introduction.

Spreckels Organ Pavilion Homepage

http://www.sosorgan.com/