Sunstate Orchestral Program, which plays David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa, Florida on Oct. 4, 2024. Credit: Photo via sunstateorchestralprogram.org

Venezuela’s publicly-funded El Sistema music education program represents a radical approach to social change and brings kids from disadvantaged backgrounds into the fine arts.

Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s longtime music and artistic director, is one of the now-worldwide program’s most famous alum, along with Tampeño Francisco Díaz, President, Music Director, and Conductor of the Sunstate Orchestral Program, which plays this free gig for the Straz Center’s Fourth Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration.

UPDATE Due to possible weather, this concert has moved inside, and is still free-to-attend.

There’s no cover for the Arts Legacy Remix Fourth Annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration happening Friday, Oct. 4 on the Riverwalk Stage at David A. Straz Center for the Performing Arts in Tampa.

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Credit: Photo by Jason Ryan c/o Gasparilla Music Festival

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This article appears in Best of The Bay 2024.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...