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Event Promoters

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

5216 Montrose Boulevard

713-284-8250

http://www.camh.org

Contrary to what you’ve heard from The Who or Eddie Cochran, there is a cure for the summertime blues. It’s called free music, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is filling your prescription all summer long. Musicians of all stripes, including a slew of Texas-based DJs, are set to raise a holler at the Museum on 11 different evenings this summer as part of three distinct series: the Ambient Sounds Summer Series, a three-week showcase of cutting-edge ambient music; Soular Sessions, presented in partnership with the Houston Press, a four-week laboratory for prominent Houston DJs curated by DJ Sun and exhibiting artist Xaviera Simmons; and Steel Lounge Underground, the revamped party series on Final Fridays with new entertainment each month. In all, the Museum is set to present 25 hours of free music by no less than 20 artists during the months of June, July and August.The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the best and most exciting international, national, and regional art of the last 40 years, and to providing a forum for the discussion and understanding of the art of our time. Through dynamic exhibitions accompanied by scholarly publications and accessible educational programs, the Museum reaches out to local, regional, national, and international audiences of all ages. Recent exhibitions include Wishing for Synchronicity: Works by Pipilotti Rist, the first comprehensive U.S. survey of the seminal work of the Swiss video artist; Andrea Zittel: Critical Space, the first comprehensive American solo exhibition of Zittel’s three-dimensional work and home environments; and Double Consciousness: Black Conceptual Art Since 1970, a survey illustrating African-American artists’ indelible influence on conceptual art. The Museum is located at 5216 Montrose Boulevard at the corner of Bissonnet, in the heart of Houston’s Museum District. The Museum is open to the public Tuesday to Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; on Thursday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and on Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Admission to the Museum and to most events is free and open to the public. The entire Museum is accessible to the physically handicapped. Call 713-284-8250 or visit www.camh.org.