Dallas String Quartet (Photo contributed)
Encore Entertainment unveils 2024-2025 ‘Season of Favorites’
Encore Entertainment is readying to unveil its 2024-2025 “Season of Favorites,” a concert series presenting four cultural arts concerts and three performances by the Southwest Symphony Orchestra at the R.N. Tydings Auditorium in Hobbs.
Formerly known as the Southwest Symphony, Encore Entertainment said that each of the season’s cultural arts concerts are “returning favorites,” as is the music being performed by the Southwest Symphony Orchestra.
The season will launch Sept. 9 at 3 p.m. with “Artrageous,” featuring a troupe from northern New Mexico with multi-talented performance artists, world-class singers and recording artists, highly trained dancers, veteran musicians and an audience motivator—together on one stage. Humor and audience interaction will complement what Encore Entertainment calls “a frenzy of movement and color.”
The following month, the Southwest Symphony Orchestra will perform with Brass Transit in “Color My World” Oct. 10 at 7 p.m. in a show featuring multitalented musicians paying tribute to the band Chicago’s songbook.
Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. will see the Dallas String Orchestra give a performance that will be half pops, half Christmas inspired, including a fusion of classic traditional and electric strings with the accompaniment of drums and guitar.
The Southwest Symphony Orchestra’s Youth Series Concerts will usher in the New Year with a performance on Jan. 27 at 7 p.m., featuring more than 2,000 Lea County 3rd and 4th graders. The elementary school children will play favorites from past Youth Series.
The Bria Skonberg Quintet will give a special concert on Feb. 14 at 7 p.m., featuring her “trumpet style indebted to Louis Armstrong” and “singing voice inspired by Anita O’Day,” according to Encore Entertainment.
The season’s last performance of the Southwest Symphony Orchestra will be a “Musicians Choice” Sunday, March 9 at 3 p.m. and will feature the performers playing their favorites from past concerts for the audience. Following the concert will be a reception for the musicians and audience members alike.
TaikoProject will top off the Season of Favorites at the auditorium with a Japanese drumming performance led by Bryan Yamami and Masato Baba April 6 at 3 p.m.
The R.N. Tydings Auditorium is located at 1332 E. Scharbauer St. in Hobbs, NM. Tickets are $25 each or $100 for the season. To purchase tickets for the “Season of Favorites,” click here.
