SOCSA presents The Mark Wood Experience "Inferno Tour !"

SOCSA is proud to present The Inferno Tour concert, starring music students from Dana Hills High School, Marco Forster Middle School and Niguel Hills Middle school, and featuring Emmy-Winning Composer and original member of Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mark Wood, and his band, The Mark Wood Experience!
Mark Wood was a member of Trans-Siberian Orchestra for 13 years and has also worked with Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Lenny Kravitz (among others), and is an Emmy award-winning composer.  He is joined by his band, “ The Mark Wood Experience,” whose members have worked with Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Celine Dion, Billy Joel, Lenny Kravitz, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and more.

Through his Electrify Your Strings! workshops,  Mark has dramatically impacted school music programs across the nation, inspiring students and teachers to fully and fearlessly express their creativity though their instruments.  His newest program, The Mark Wood Experience, reaches beyond the string orchestra to embrace winds, percussion, and vocal music.  Electrify Your Strings!  and The Mark Wood Experience have been featured in Time, USA Today, the New York Times, andon CBS News and PBS.  This is the first Mark Wood event to be held in the state of California!

This exciting event includes not only to SOCSA students, but also instrumentalists and singers from Niguel Hills and Marco Forster middle schools—over 300 middle and high school students will have the opportunity to expand their musical horizons!

Students spend training in a real-life rehearsal setting with Mark Wood and his talented team of musicians, developing skills such as performance technique and improvisation while enjoying the excitement of merging classical music with modern rock-and-roll!

Join us in Lantern Bay Park for the thrilling culmination to this three-day event, a rock orchestra concert with local students as the stars!

Event Details:

Date:  Sunday, November 7th
Time:  Concert begins at 12 noon

Place:  Lantern Bay Park, 25111 Park Lantern, Dana Point, CA 92629

Cost:  General admission to the park is free.  A reserved section with chairs provided is available for $10 per person.  To purchase tickets online, click here

Parking: 

There are only a few available parking spaces up the hill on Park Lantern near Lantern Bay Park.
Free parking is available at Dana Point Harbor, located at Dana Point Harbor Drive and Golden Lantern—stairs ascending to Lantern Bay Park can be found on the northeast side of the intersection.
Parking is available along Golden Lantern.
Parking is available at Doheny Beach parking lot for $15, located at Dana Point Harbor drive and Park Lantern (on the beach side of Harbor Drive).  There is also a section of parking lot that is metered.

Food and Merchandise

Food, snacks and drinks will be available for purchase beginning at 11:30 a.m.  

SOCSA and Mark Wood merchandise will also be available for sale at the event.

Sponsors:

If you would like to sponsor this event, please email Barbara Bond at president@socsarts.org or call 949-637-9208 for a sponsor package.  Sponsor levels include:
Gold: $500
Platinum: $1000
Double Platinum: $2500
Diamond:  $5000

For more information on Mark Wood, “Electrify Your Strings” and “The Mark Wood Experience:”

Mark Wood has several websites, including :

www.markwoodmusic.com

www.woodviolins.com

www.electrifyyourstrings.com

And can be found on Facebook at www.facebook.com/markwoodmusic

And YouTube at www.youtube.com/markwoodtv