Juneteenth Celebration

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Miller Outdoor Theatre

6000 Hermann Park Drive
Houston, TX 77030

Category: Performing Arts Venues

Region: Outer Loop - SE

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With Glen David Andrews and the Corey Ledet Zydeco Band, 7 p.m. Sunday, June 19, at Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Dr., 281-823-9103 or www.milleroutdoortheatre.com . Free; tickets for seated area available between 10:30 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Miller Box Office, and an hour before showtime if any remain.

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• Glen David Andrews
• Juneteenth
• William Michael Smith
• Lafayette (Louisiana)
• Accordion Kings

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Year in and year out, the Juneteenth Celebration always draws one of Miller Outdoor Theatre's biggest crowds of the year, and it's not hard to see why. Commemorating the day the end of slavery was finally announced in Texas in June 1865, Juneteenth is one of the biggest days on the African-American calendar, official holiday or not. Sunday's lineup is something to celebrate as well, with New Orleans trombone prodigy Glen David Andrews leading the way. Andrews, who has appeared on HBO's Treme, had critics tripping over their superlatives after his performance at Jazz Fest this year: "Approximating the power released by a six-pack of hydrogen bombs detonated at tent central, carrying his audience along on a wild ride from one detonation to the next, Andrews was searingly, exhaustingly astonishing," wrote his hometown paper on nola.com. From the outskirts of Lafayette, ­Corey Ledet and his zydeco band are no strangers to Miller. Just two weeks ago, in fact, their performance at the Accordion Kings & Queens festival moved the Houston Press' William Michael Smith to say, "There isn't much live music more joyous than listening to and watching a locked-in Louisiana rhythm section laying down the voodoo hoodoo." You've been warned.