Bayou City Art Festival

The 2024 Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park. 300 national and international artists will come together with 20,000 art-loving patrons for a dynamic weekend full of art, food, music, and entertainment. Bayou City Art Festival is one of the largest and most prestigious juried Fine Art Festivals in the country and is produced by Art Colony Association, Inc.

The Art Colony Association is proud to announce Ash Beheshti as the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2024 Featured Artist! Ash is a mixed-media artist from Los Angeles. As a visual storyteller, Beheshti voices his stories through his figurative collages that celebrate the female form and portray women in a strong, positive, and inspirational light.

Schedule of Events

KPRC 2 Hitch Stage

10:30am - 12:00pm: DeSoto Rose
DeSoto Rose has become one of Houston's favorite cover bands performing Americana, Indie, Folk Rock, Alt Country, and Classic Rock. DeSoto Rose is: Heidi Kaim (vocals), Nick Karam (vocals, guitar, mandolin), Andy Bost (bass), Cameron Clark (keyboard, banjo), Frans Sluiter (guitar), and Bruce Godzina (percussion), with guest vocalist Ayesha Najam.

1:00pm - 2:30pm: Hot City Brass Band
Houston's Hot City Brass Band is a respectful nod to the New Orleans style second-line band. They draw on the tradition but also add their own twist of pop, classic soul and 90's r&b covers that leave you feeling nostalgic and keep the party going.

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: LaQuin & the Family Tree Band
LaQuin is a saxophonist, educator, and songwriter from Houston, TX. He is a graduate of HSPVA and holds a BA in Professional Music from Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA. LaQuin & the Family Tree Band are a mission driven funk and improvisation band consisting of saxophone, drums, guitar, turntables, vocalist, and LaQuin's on spot arrangements by Ableton Push.

Wine Garden Stage

11:00am - 12:30pm: Raquel Cepeda
Raquel Cepeda is a jazz singer and songwriter who brings the best styles and rhythms from around the world to the refined language and aesthetics of jazz. Her latest album "Passion" was nominated for "Best Jazz Album" at the 2020 Pepsi Music Awards.

1:30pm - 3:00pm: Horace Alexander Young Trio
Horace Alexander Young is a 21st Century musician whose combined saxophone and vocal style revisits the sensitivity and grit of Lester Young and Cannonball Adderley, and the smoothness and grace of Nat King Cole. After 30+ years in the music business playing, arranging, composing and recording music for other artists his focus now is on his personal artistry and mentoring the next generation of musicians.

4:00pm - 5:30pm: Charlie Perez
An H Town Charlie DJ set is a world funk and jazz journey through the 70's, 80's, and 90's. He mixes in live percussion from Cuba and Brazil to elevate the experience for the listeners, who quickly become dancers.

Roaming Musicians

12:00pm - 2:00pm: Brass With Class -Zachary Lerner

Active Imagination Zone

2:30pm - 3:30pm: Gamelan of the New Moon
10:00am - 5:00pm: Bonnie Blue

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