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The 4th annual Downtown Dallas Arts and Music Festival will take place Sept. 10-13.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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This weekend, downtown Dallas will turn into an arts and culture hub during the 4th annual Downtown Dallas Arts and Music Festival. The family-friendly festival will take place Sept. 10-13.<\/p>\n
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“It’s an annual festival that we host every year, and it transforms our city into an immersive destination for creative entrepreneurs to come together,” said Frankie Garcia III, founder and executive producer of Downtown Dallas Arts and Music Festival and owner of FGIII Fine Art Productions.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The VIP launch event will take place on Thursday, Sept. 10 from 6 to 10\u00a0p.m. at SPACE at Adolphus Tower.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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On Friday, SPACE will host Crossover, an interdisciplinary group exhibition and design expo that will celebrate the creative energy of Dallas College students, faculty and the broader Dallas arts and design community. This event is free.<\/p>\n
During the weekend’s free events at Main Street Garden Park, festival attendees will get to discover local art, listen to live music, watch live paintings and murals be created, see live performances, get an up-close look at\u00a0curated art exhibitions and installations, pop-up activities and food trucks. There will be 70 vendors and nine artists painting live on 8-foot-by-12-foot walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Participating artists include graffiti artists Honest, Sloke, Bwaresparks, Kema, Raytrill, Joeskilz, Tex, Soner and Ucron. Other artists, who painted their works in April, will include Mario\u00a0Guzman, Marion McHale and Jeremy Biggers. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“All of their art will be featured and it’ll be onsite and there will be other artists live painting,” Garcia said. “So they bring a lot to the table, too, because they’re nationally active, they’re engaged, they’re doing big things across the country and they’re Dallas locals in the prime of their career.”<\/p>\n
This year, there will be a new DJ activation by Soundworks DJ Academy. The festival will also be introducing community and connection with local nonprofits such as the Texas Youth Voter Project and the Texas Music Project.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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There will also be two stages for musical performances featuring live shows by local musicians Dona Maria, Trevor\u00a0Renteria, Gracen Wynn, Diego Duarte, RAVS, Will Sollo, Stacy Wynette, Carly Tate Remy Reilly, Alex O’aiza and more. There will also be a\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Our goal with DDAMF is bigger than simply creating a stage for artists to perform on,” said Christian\u00a0Chavarria, executive director of music for the Downtown Dallas Arts and Music Festival. “We want to create meaningful opportunities for musicians to be seen heard and connected to the people, businesses, and creative communities that can help move their careers forward.”<\/p>\n
The festival usually takes place in April during Dallas Arts Month, but was shifted to September this year due to the rainy weather and the FIFA World Cup.\u00a0The festival will return to its usual spring dates in 2027.<\/p>\n
The launch party will be on\u00a0Sept. 10 from 6 to 10\u00a0p.m. at SPACE at\u00a0Adolphus Tower, 1412 Main St., Crossover will be on Sept. 11 from 6 to 9 p.m., and\u00a0the festival will take place on Sept. 12 from noon to 10\u00a0p.m. and Sept. 13 from noon to 6 p.m. at Main Street Garden Park, 1902 Main St., Dallas. Free. ddamf.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 4th annual Downtown Dallas Arts and Music Festival will take place Sept. 10-13.\u00a0 Courtesy of DDAMF This…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431926,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-431925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}