featuring Tiempo Libre
7.1, 4PM, FREE
Sponsored by City of Reno Arts and Culture Commission, Reno Aces, Freight House District, Friends of Artown, MomsLikeMe.com. Host hotel Siena Hotel Spa Casino.
Opening Night’s celebration is a multi-venue extravaganza kicking off with family activities and art projects on the lawn outside Reno Aces Ballpark and throughout the Freight House District. Included in these activities is face painting for 280 children by Body Masterpiece where children will be transformed into butterflies, super heroes and wild animals. Then join the raucous parade through downtown Reno to Wingfield Park with March Fourth Marching Band. The party continues with Miami-based band Tiempo Libre and its incendiary, joyful performance rich with the sounds of timba, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of high-voltage Latin jazz and the seductive rhythms of son. Then, continue the fun with more March Fourth Marching Band at The Knitting Factory.
Face Painting & Parade
Your child can be part of Artown's opening night parade! MomsLikeMe.com website is the exclusive sign up spot for your children to get their faces painted in Aces Stadium from 4pm - 6:30pm, which will be followed by the children's parade at 7pm from Aces Stadium to Wingfield for opening night festivities. One parent or guardian must be present with children at the stadium for face painting, the other activities at the stadium, and during the parade.
About MarchFourth Marching Band
MarchFourth Marching Band is a mobile big band spectacular, consisting of a brassy pack of saxophones, trombones, and trumpets, a raucous drum/percussion corps, anchored by a mobile and wireless electric bass. The sound is huge, melodic, and dynamic, taking audiences on a musical journey around the globe. MarchFourth writes and performs its own material, and also draws inspiration from an eclectic range of worldwide influences, such as Eastern European gypsy brass, samba, latin, funk, afro-beat, big-band, jazz, and rock music, as well as television, film, circus, and vaudeville. Stilt-walkers, unicycles, fire eaters, puppets, flag twirlers, burlesque dancers, clown antics, and acrobatics are just some of the things you'll see accompanying this eclectic big band. MarchFourth Marching Band's stilt-walkers are world-class, performing acrobatics, dance routines, and even fire dancing on stilts -- all in fanciful costumes. The other dancing beauties can fill the stage with mesmerizing original dance routines (inspired by Bollywood, hip hop, jazz, cheer leading, burlesque, ballroom and more) or spread out into the audience and get everybody dancing. The musical quality, the energy of the band, and the spectacle of the dancers all combine to create an original performance that appeals to everyone. Without guitars or keyboards, M4 "rocks" with the best of them, entertaining the audience with an over-the-top explosion of performance, color and charisma.
About Tiempo Libre
Two-time Grammy-nominated Tiempo Libre is one the hottest young Latin bands today. Equally at home in concert halls, jazz clubs and dance venues, the members of the Miami-based band are true modern heirs to the rich tradition of the music of their native Cuba. Tiempo Libre’s members were all classically trained at La ENA, Cuba’s premiere conservatory during a time when it was illegal to listen to American songs on the radio. Now, the group is a hit in the U.S. and abroad, celebrated for its incendiary, joyful performances of timba, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of high-voltage Latin jazz and the seductive rhythms of son. Since their formation in 2001, the members of Tiempo Libre have been on a mission: to share the musical heritage in which they grew up with as wide an audience as possible, reinterpreting and reinvigorating traditional Cuban music with a youthful, modern sound and forging a new style born from the meeting of their Cuban roots and their new American experience.Listen to Tiempo Libre's "Tu Conga Bach"