Music Fest event coming to Du Quoin
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_124_291" tabindex="0">The 13th-annual Southern Illinois Music Festival will feature more than three-dozen events throughout the area, including one next week at the Du Quoin Public Library.</span><br /> <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_292_358" tabindex="0">The festival begins May 26, and continues through Sunday, June 11.</span> <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_359_563" tabindex="0">The traveling festival program "Klassics for Kids" will come to the library at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 31 and feature an interactive concert designed to expose children to the joys of live classical music.</span> Admission is free.<br /> This year's complete festival includes Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni," updated with a gangster theme sung in Italian and backed by a full orchestra, June 9 and 11 at Shryock Auditorium on the SIU Carbondale campus. <br /> Three large orchestral concerts June 2, 3 and 4 at the Carterville High School Performing Arts Center will feature the works of Dvorak and Tchaikovsky. <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_950_1044" tabindex="0">A Memorial Day show May 29 at Marion High School is modeled on a Washington, D.C. performance.</span> <span class="contextualExtensionHighlight ms-font-color-themePrimary ms-border-color-themePrimary ident_1045_1159" tabindex="0">The Southern Illinois Music Festival also  will present a virtuoso organ recital by Adam Brakel June 5 at Shryock.</span><br /> Chamber-music performances, concerts by the New Arts Jazztet, and Klassics for Kids and Jive with Jazz events geared toward younger listeners will all take place throughout Southern Illinois.</span></span>