johnny mcdonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cWe want people to come earlier to be entertained by roving barbershop quartets, dancers and even\u00a0antique cars,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople can get into the atmosphere of 1915, even be taught dance steps of that period.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for the concerts, he\u2019s noticed a change in audiences over the past years.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore young families with children are filling the 2,500 seats,\u201d he said. \u201cBefore, they were mostly senior citizens.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of the few places where the kids can hop around in the back or on the sides during these concerts,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe have room up front so people can dance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Appropriately, the San Diego Marine Corps Concert band will play on opening night, June 16. The shows are scheduled Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday nights through Aug. 27.<\/p>\n
Historically, the Marines participated in the 1915 Fair and were headquartered in the Park\u2019s buildings until MCRD opened in 1924.<\/p>\n
Bayou Brothers and\u00a0Hillcrest Wind Ensemble will perform the next two nights.<\/p>\n
Waggener said the mid-week days were selected so as not to interfere with other events going on at the Park and these had \u201cthe least chance,\u201d of doing so. He also said the volunteers are responsible for keeping the series alive for so long.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t depend on grants and things like that,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
A few of the other musical performers will be Real Jazz Big Band, Grupo Relax TJ, Dixie Express, Coronado Big Band and The Legends.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the Park <\/strong>\u2014 During spring break in March, San Diego State students Derek Abbey. Jade Dadiz, Jacob Jiron and Olivia Chavez, joined the BentProp Project team in Palau to search for WWII remains and artifacts. Their findings will be exhibited at the Veterans Museum<\/strong> on June 24 at 6:30 p.m. The BentProp Project, once featured on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d is a nonprofit group that conducts year-round research in support of the annual spring missions to Palau.<\/p>\nIn recent weeks, the Museum has received numerous WWII medals, books, uniforms, certificates, ship model, photographs and other artifacts from 12 donors … The San Diego Zoo<\/strong> has more than 700,000 plants in its accredited botanical collection including over 900 different types of orchids. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of opportunity for guests to learn and gain knowledge they can put to use in their own backyard gardens,\u201d said Dan Simpson, horticulture manager.\u00a0\u201cAt various spots on Zoo grounds, guests can visit interesting booths and learn about things like what makes up good soil and compost at the \u2018can you dig it\u2019 booth\u201d \u2026 San Diego Junior Theatre\u2019s<\/strong> \u201cCharlotte\u2019s Web.\u201d E. B. White\u2019s story of a diverse group of farm animals on a dangerous and exciting adventure, June 26 \u2013 July 12 \u2026 San Diego Natural History Museum,\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cMaya: Hidden Worlds Revealed,\u201d June 12 \u2013 Jan. 3. The nation\u2019s largest exhibit of its kind reveals the rise and decline of the Mayan civilization through never-before-seen artifacts, hands-on activities, multimedia components and recreated environments \u2026 Spanish Village Art Center\u2019s<\/strong> Painting Extravaganza, a creation of a mural depicting Balboa Park in 1915 by 12 artists painting in their styles on panels that are fitted together, June 20 \u2013 21 \u2026 The Old Globe Summer Season<\/strong> will feature Shakespeare onstage and in film, including \u201cTwelfth Night\u201d and \u201cThe Comedy of Errors\u201d at the outdoor Lowell Davies Festival Theatre; \u201cKiss Me, Kate\u201d in the Old Globe Theatre; and Ken Ludwig\u2019s \u201cBaskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery\u201d in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, June 21 \u2013 Sept. 20.<\/p>\n\u2014Despu\u00e9s de una carrera galardonada de 38 a\u00f1os como escritor deportivo con el San Diego Union y de escribir tres libros, Johnny McDonald ahora considera escribir un pasatiempo. Puedes localizarlo en johnny23@cox.net<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Johnny McDonald Twilight The traditional summer Twilight in the Park concerts\u00a0will have a Centennial twist this year. \u201cWe\u2019ll have special Centennial events planned around some of the concerts,\u201d\u00a0said Mike Waggener, who established the first Twilight shows 35 years ago.\u00a0\u201cThey\u2019ll begin an hour before the 6:30 p.m. concert each night.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1182,"featured_media":237246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"Exploring Balboa Park June 2015","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11600],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-sdnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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