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EcoTones Concerts presents imaginative outdoor performances sited in local public nature spaces, exploring connections between humans and the natural world. EcoTones: The Urban Prairie @ Tower Grove Park’s Nee Kee Nee on May 4, 2024 includes a free family event for families with children ages 0-7 from 10:30am-11:45; and an All-Ages Ticketed Event 2:00-5:00 pm. Registration is required for both events.
The free family event from 10:30-11:45am is offered in partnership with the St. Louis Public Library’s Carpenter Branch and invites families with children ages 0-7 to hear soloists and a chamber ensemble alongside the Nee Kee Nee Trail, as well a trailside story circle with a SLPL Carpenter Branch children's librarian, and hands- on volunteer naturalist stations about bees, butterflies, and native plants.
This whimsical, innovative live performance event invites audiences to interact with & listen to musicians along a half-mile “Music Trail” along Tower Grove Park’s Nee Kee Nee Stream (Osage for “revived water”), an enchanting and recently constructed trail surrounded by native prairie plantings alongside a recently day- lighted stream in Tower Grove Park’s eastern quadrant. A mobile audience will walk amongst instruments from all four instrument families playing small group chamber music inspired by the flora and fauna along the trail, interspersed with special trailside stations providing insight about the prairie ecosystem from volunteer naturalists. New music inspired by the prairie ecosystem, its superpower roots, specific native plants, and the flora and fauna immediately alongside the trail will be performed.
Please visit www.ecotonesconcerts.org for tickets and for more information.
Special thanks to our season nonprofit sponsor The Missouri Prairie Foundation, a program support grant from the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, our business sponsors Jackson Pianos (providing a grand piano for the event), Pure Air Natives seed company, Top Notch Violins, our partners the St. Louis Public Library Carpenter Branch, and donations from private individuals. We are so grateful for the support of all of these entities in making this innovative and unique event happen!
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tower Grove Park, 4214 Main Dr, St Louis, MO 63116, United States,St. Louis, Missouri
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