Delta Brass Express performed Friday night in the Klipsch Auditorium in City Hall on the third day of events commemorating Paul W. Klipsch's birthday.
Tonight, starting at 6:30 p.m. at the Klipsch Auditorium in City Hall, the second annual Paul W. Klipsch Birthday Bash continues with a BBQ Dinner catered by Oak-Lan Food Truck Catering. Then two musical acts will take the stage in the auditorium, Jennifer Taylor with an acoustic set and afterward South Down Main.
Tickets for the meal and concert can be purchased at the door for $25 per person.
Also tonight will be the announcement of the high bid for the silent auction of a pair of Klipsch Speakers that started Friday.
The BBQ and concert will be the final event of the four-day celebration of Paul W. Klipsch's birthday that began Wednesday at the Klipsch Heritage Museum Association Visitor's Center with a coffee.
On Thursday night , the public was invited to bring their own music to be played through various sets of Klipsch speakers from different eras at the Visitor's Center.
Then on Friday, members of the Klipsch staff squired small groups through the Klipsch lab in the Klipsch manufacturing plant north of Hope, including a visit to its famed anechoic chamber in which hundreds of wedge-shaped foam pieces are affixed to walls, floor and ceiling to allow for speakers to be tested in a room in which none of their sound reverberates.
Afterward, the groups were treated to an hour of pure sound from a CD of especially chosen music as rendered by the new Klipsch Jubilee speakers. The speakers were remarkable for their reproduction of the lowest bass and the highest trebles with complete accuracy.
Then the group was squired to the Klipsch Museum of Audio History to be shown relics (headphones, speakers, amps and much more) from the history of Paul W. Klipsch as inventor and innovator, narrated by Jim Hunter who, according to his bio on the Klipsch Museum website, "took on many other roles over 38 years, including Production Engineer, Quality Control, Program Manager, Design Engineering Manager and eventually Historian."
Last night, the celebration took over about half of City Hall for Fusion Night as dozens of artistic works by locals were on display and the witnessing of the live creation of bigger-than-life full-length Elvis portrait by Hope native Steven Walden took place upstairs. Heavy hors d’ oeuvres were provided by Sheba’s. The musical performers were the Dallas Brass Express, whose smoothly orchestrated bluesy-pop nicely rounded out the evening.
A selection of photos from the past few days follows.
From Thursday evening
From Friday afternoon
From Friday evening
