Week Two of Music Fest at Colorado State University – Pueblo features diversity 
 
PUEBLO – Week two of Colorado Music Fest XI at Colorado State University-Pueblo will feature a diversity of locations and music styles from Broadway tunes and mariachi to classical piano. Music Fest XI is a five-week series of musical camps and concerts sponsored by CSU-Pueblo.
 
From national tours of Les Miserable, Phantom of the Opera, and Fiddler on the Roof to CSU-Pueblo, veteran Broadway performer Tamra Hayden will headline Broadway at the Fest on Friday, June 11 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in CSU-Pueblo’s Hoag Hall. Tickets are just $20 per person for a full evening of music, drama, and dancing. Students enrolled in the Musical Theatre Camp will perform along with Hayden and other camp faculty, Barbara Beck, CSU-Pueblo music professor and camp director; Dana Ihm, CSU-Pueblo vocal director, and Betsy Acree-McClenahan. Earlier in the week, students will be the primary focus of a free Musical Theatre Camp concert at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 9 in Hoag Hall. 
 
Experience a “Mariachi Festival” in your own backyard on Saturday, June 12, when a day of mariachi clinics and mariachi music have been scheduled. Albuquerque’s world renowned Mariachi Tenampa will offer a day-long clinic at CSU-Pueblo’s Hoag Hall in trumpet, violin, guitar, vihuela, guitarron and voice and then will join with Mariachi Arcoiris, Mariachi San Luis, and the Grupo Folklorico de Pueblo for an evening performance at 7 p.m. at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center. Tickets are $7 for adults and $4 for children under 12 and are available at The Music Man, 600 W. Northern Ave., or by calling the Sangre de Cristo Arts and Conference Center, 295-7200. Sponsors of the Mariachi Fest include Koncilja & Koncilja Law Firm, Pueblo District 60, Vectra Bank, Coca Cola, The Pueblo Chieftain, Santinas, and KRMX/Radio Lobo. 
 
You won’t want to miss the “classic” performance of Sara McDaniel, the state’s first nominee for the National Music Teacher of the Year Award, who will offer a free piano concert at 7: 30 p.m. on Sunday, June 13 at First Presbyterian Church, 220 W 10th in Pueblo. McDaniel is known throughout the western region for her teaching and clinics of chamber music in particular. McDaniel performs regularly with musicians of the Colorado Springs' Philharmonic, the United States Air Force Band of the Rockies, and numerous Colorado Springs' colleges. She has been a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs and the Colorado Springs Community Orchestra. 
 
For tickets to any of these events, call the Arts Center, or log onto colostate-pueblo.edu/cmf for more information. 

   
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