Southern Illinois Music Festival

I will be posting more about this but be sure to put this on your agenda if you're going to be visiting the region this summer.

The 4th annual Southern Illinois Music Festival features more than 50 performances in venues from Mt. Vernon to Cairo and Murphysboro to Marion, including a six-concert series at SIUC’s Shryock Auditorium. Musicians from throughout the United States, Europe and Asia perform orchestral and chamber music, opera, ballet, musical theater, jazz, patriotic and new music, in an informal atmosphere. Several programs are formulated just for kids, and the majority of the performances are free.

For complete schedule information, see www.sifest.com.