Jun 26 Friday
TPR's Summer Night City is back with free live music Friday nights in beautiful downtown San Antonio. Join us at the Texas Public Radio headquarters on Fridays from June 12 to July 3. Shop vendors from Last Chance Market!
6:00pm Last Chance Market
7:00pm Flight by Nothing
8:15pm INOHA
Free validated parking at the City Tower Garage
Fiesta Noche del Rio is a spectacular outdoor performance featuring live music, singing and dancing in the beautiful Arneson River Theatre in La Villita on the San Antonio River Walk. Alamo Kiwanis Club produces the show each summer to benefit local children’s charities, and the show is updated each year. Enjoy the Mariachis, Flamenco guitar, music, singing, dancing, bright costumes and a cool drink or snack as you help support children’s charities through your attendance.
Fiesta Noche del Rio performances are on Friday and Saturday nights at 8:30 p.m. at the Arneson River Theatre (418 Villita St.) from June 5 through August 1, but we recommend arriving early to get a great seat. It’s a fun show for the whole family and a San Antonio tradition since 1957.
Tickets: $25 Adults, $20 Seniors (60+)/Military, $10 Children (6-14, Under 6 is free). Tickets on-line and at HEB.
Jun 27 Saturday
Morning Grounds is a recurring summer gathering at Chris Park featuring complimentary hot coffee and iced beverages from Mural Roasters alongside opportunities for connection, reflection, and creative engagement. Taking place every other Saturday in June and July, the series offers a welcoming space to ease into the weekend alongside contemporary art and community.
On June 27, Morning Grounds will feature an outdoor yoga session led by Angela Elle Raven from 10:30–11:30AM. Rooted in mindfulness, embodiment, and accessibility, these all-level sessions invite participants to slow down, reconnect, and experience Chris Park through movement and reflection. Participants are encouraged to bring a mat, though a limited number will be available on site. Free registration is encouraged, but not required.
Guests are invited to visit Open This Wall by Daniel Rios Rodriguez at Studio and Sensing Meaning: Abstract Painting at Ruby City.
Always free.
Jul 03 Friday
TPR's Summer Night City ends the season July 3 with free live music Friday nights in beautiful downtown San Antonio. Join us at the Texas Public Radio headquarters on Fridays from June 12 to July 3. Shop vendors from Last Chance Market!
7:00pm Mockingbird Express
8:15pm The 501's
This special concert is a powerful tribute to 250 years of the American journey, honoring the people, ideals, and milestones that define our nation’s story. Through inspiring patriotic works and beloved American melodies, the program echoes the courage, resilience, and unity that have carried generations forward. Come experience a musical journey through moments of remembrance, celebration, and hope. It is an evening designed to inspire our patriotism, gratitude, and a renewed sense of community.
Jul 04 Saturday
Jul 10 Friday
An evening of elegance, reflection, and transcendence—where music invites us not only to listen, but to move, to feel, and to step beyond the ordinary:
Henri Vieuxtemps — Élégie, Op. 30Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Piano Concerto No. 14 in E-flat Major, K. 449Olivier Messiaen — Quartet for the End of Time
The season opens in Blanco with a program that traces a journey from intimacy to the infinite. Vieuxtemps’ Élégie offers a deeply personal opening—lyrical, searching, and suffused with quiet longing. Mozart’s radiant concerto, heard here in its chamber form, brings clarity, grace, and a sense of poised conversation among equals.
After intermission, the atmosphere transforms. Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time, composed in a prisoner-of-war camp during World War II, transcends its origins to create a sound world of astonishing stillness, color, and spiritual intensity. Time seems to dissolve; what remains is something luminous, eternal.
In this opening night, “Invitation to the Dance” becomes something larger: an invitation to cross a threshold—into the season, into new sound worlds, and into the boundless horizon beyond.