Homero Ceron, center, plays Kettle drums with the Tucson Pops Orchestra during the opening concert of it's 2014 Music Under The Stars season with a Stars Of The Future concert at Reid Park's DeMeester Outdoor Performance Center in Tucson, AZ. Photo taken Sunday, May 11, 2014. Photo by Ron Medvescek / Arizona Daily Star.
Tucsonans love a free band concert
Crickets chirp. The smell of cut grass is in the air. Neighbors gather at Reid Park and the band begins to play βThe Star-Spangled Banner,β and boy is it popular. Parking and seating places go fast when the Tucson Pops Orchestra performs at the bandshell each Sunday in the spring and fall. The lawn comfortably holds 7,000 and the concerts, going on since the Cold War, are free.
