Odessa Arts

The Thorn
2024-12-12 08:00 - 17:00 (America/Chicago) | Texas
The Thorn tells the epic story of God’s love for the world and the spiritual battle for all humanity. The story of Christ is presented in an immersive show with live music, drama, aerial acts, movement arts, modern dance, and special effects. Witnessed live by more than 1 million people over 25 years, The Thorn will engage audiences in the definitive story of love, sacrifice and redemption like never before.

Holiday Programs EISD
2024-12-12 17:00 - 2024-12-17 18:00 | Texas

Jazz Nights at Flair: Seven String Guitars featuring Brent & Emily Wheeler
2024-12-12 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Black Gold
2024-12-13 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Cookies with Santa
2024-12-14 08:00 - 17:00 | Frost, 2710 N Grandview Ave, Odessa, TX, United States
Cookies with Santa | Grandview
Join us at our Grandview Financial Center in Odessa for a little holiday cheer. We’ll have cookies and a special appearance from Santa Claus. Bring your camera for a day to remember. Be sure to invite your family and friends. This event is free and open to the public.
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Investment and insurance products are not FDIC insured, are not bank guaranteed, and may lose value. Additionally, insurance products are offered through Frost Insurance. Deposit and loan products are offered through Frost Bank, Member FDIC.

An Aaron Watson Family Christmas Tour
2024-12-14 10:00 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States
An Aaron Watson Family Christmas” is the perfect holiday event for the whole family. The event will be packed full of Christmas classics and songs from his critically-acclaimed Christmas album of the same name, plus some of Aaron’s most popular hits, performed by Aaron and the band, along with special appearances from the Watson family. The event will also feature special surprises sure to put everyone in the holiday spirit.

Live Music with Flair: John Sprott & Ron Riley as 2Blue2
2024-12-14 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

LONE STAR BRASS
2024-12-17 19:30 | St Anns Catholic Church, 1906 W. Texas Avenue, Midland, TX, 79701, United States
LONE STAR BRASS
Basin Brass Christmas Bonanza!
Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | 7:30PM
St. Ann’s Catholic Church – 1906 W Texas Ave, Midland MAP
Lone Star Brass invites you to their spectacular annual holiday concert with West Texas Symphonic Brass!
$25 General Admission, Students $12
CLICK TO PURCHASE TICKETS
800-514-3849 OR AT THE DOOR

Lone Star Brass - Basin Christmas Bonanza
2024-12-17 19:30 - 21:30 | Texas

Jazz Nights at Flair: Sam Allen
2024-12-19 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Brother Z
2024-12-20 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

White Christmas
2024-12-20 19:30, 2024-12-21 19:30 | Midland Community Theatre, 2000 W. Wadley, Midland, 79705, United States
Veterans Bob Wallace and Phil Davis have a successful song-and-dance act after World War II. With romance in mind, the two follow a duo of beautiful singing sisters en route to their Christmas show at a Vermont lodge, which just happens to be owned by Bob and Phil’s former army commander. With a dazzling score featuring well-known standards including “Blue Skies,” “I Love A Piano,” “How Deep Is the Ocean” and the perennial title song, White Christmas is an uplifting, wholesome musical that will delight audiences of all ages.

Live Music with Flair: The Piano Room
2024-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Irish Airs & Graces
2024-12-21 18:00 - 21:00 | Volcano, 3952 E 42nd St, Odessa, TX, United States
Irish Airs & Graces
we are delighted to collaborate with Dave on this special St Patrick’s Day event.
About this Event
‘Irish Airs & Graces’ is a special St Patrick’s Day concert, blurring the boundaries between traditional Irish music and contemporary classical music and featuring Irish composer Dave Flynn & the New Zealand String Quartet, and guest traditional Irish musicians.

Flair: NO LIVE MUSIC
2024-12-26 18:00 - 21:00, 2024-12-28 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

Live Music with Flair: Colton Fox
2024-12-27 18:00 - 21:00 | Flair Taverna, 2701 JBS Parkway, Odessa, Texas

59th Annual West Texas Jazz Party
2025-01-05 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-01-06 19:00 - 23:00, 2025-01-07 11:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-07 19:00 - 23:00 | Odessa Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, 305 E. 5th Street, Odessa, Texas, 79761
Jon Erik Kellso, Peter Anderson, John Allred, Dan Barrett, Daniela Soledade, Nate Najar, Frank Tate, Richard Simon, Chuck Redd, Ricky Malichi, Johnny Varro, Brian Piper, and more!

Masterworks Series: WTS Spotlight "Doves & Crocodiles"
2025-01-11 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Gary Lewis, Conductor
Chris Chance, Clarinet
Premiere Rhapsodie – CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Symphony No. 2 – LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
Chris Chance enjoys a varied performing career as an orchestral clarinetist, chamber musician, and concert soloist.
He has performed with orchestras across North America, including Arizona Opera, New Mexico Philharmonic, Ohio Light Opera, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, Lubbock Symphony, and the Orquesta Sinfónica UANL of Monterrey, Mexico. Chris is currently Principal Clarinet of the West Texas Symphony, Principal Clarinet of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra, and clarinetist of the West Texas Winds woodwind quintet. In addition to live performance, he has also worked as a recording studio musician for the Hal Leonard Corporation.
Chris received a Bachelor of Music degree, a Performer Diploma, and the Performer’s Certificate from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

The Panhandlers
2025-01-16 20:00 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
It’s easy to dismiss West Texas as just a vast, barren wasteland void of nuance or life. Those West Texans born and bred, they often daydream of escaping the endless miles of mesquite bush pastures, cotton field patches, and iron orchard oil wells. Still, something draws them back time and again. For millennia, its inhabitants have etched out corners and dugouts to break from the wind and fight off the sun. And through it all, they attempt to capture the brazen beauty of the land and the spirit of its people in song and story. It ain’t for the faint of heart. It’s a tough, bold country.
The Panhandlers are four native sons from the outskirts of Texas society, having spent much of their lives in the high desert and southern prairie. Individually, Josh Abbott, John Baumann, William Clark Green, and Flatland Cavalry’s Cleto Cordero have long pursued that Far West Texas mythos and Panhandle lore. Scattered throughout their solo catalogs, the four frontmen have delivered earnest anthems and endearing balladry that embodies a Flatland life and South Plains dreams.
Still, that hasn’t ever been quite enough for Abbott, Baumann, Cordero, and Green, who in early 2020 released The Panhandlers. Built around a collection of organic and visceral rural reflections, hardscrabbled character sketches, and a wide open spaces state of mind, The Panhandlers thrived under the guidance of songwriting scholar and album producer Bruce Robison. With a Who’s Who of musicians in tow and recorded on analog two-inch tape at Robison’s The Bunker Studio, the pairings fit hand-in-glove for the set of windswept vignettes and honky-tonk mosaics.
Now, some three years later, they pick right up where The Panhandlers left off. Tough Country finds the four songwriters diving further into rough West Texas caliche and rich Panhandle soil, unearthing campfire compositions, forlorn ballads, romantic rendezvous, and charming singalongs. Like their previous efforts, Tough Country finds the four working with Robison together once again at The Bunker for a desert-swept sonic punch that offers hints of Western Swing, Flatland folk, and rollicking country ambiance.
Much like the plainspoken poets, dancehall desperados, iconoclast artists, and the cowboy wordsmiths they call heroes, The Panhandlers walk the fine line between romanticizing the rugged land and its hearty inhabitants with gentle acknowledgments and sincere homages, all the while blazing their own trails and reveling in the satisfaction of unveiling their own fresh spin on old traditions.

Grupo Yndio, Angeles Negros, Terricolas y Pasteles Verdes
2025-01-18 19:00 | La Hacienda Event Center, 12600 TX-191 Hwy, Midland, TX, 79705, United States
January 18 @ 19:00

Chancey Williams
2025-01-20 19:00 - 21:30 | The Ector Theatre, 500 N. Texas, Odessa, TX, 79761, United States

Kenny G
2025-01-23 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
Kenny G has a way with melody. That’s not necessarily a revelation, but more like a huge understatement, and it really comes into focus at this point in Kenny’s amazing career. This is a musician who has sold more than 75 million albums worldwide, owns the best-selling instrumental record of all time with 1992’s 12-times-platinum Breathless, has the number one Christmas record of all time with 1994’s 8-times platinum Miracles, and whose song “Going Home” has, improbably, become the official end-of-work-day anthem in China. At the heart of those achievements is Kenny’s ability to convey deep emotional resonance with his saxophone, a skill never more apparent than on Innocence, his 20th studio album and fifth for Concord Records.

Clint Black: 35th Anniversary of Killin' Time Tour
2025-01-24 19:30 | Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center, 1310 FM 1788, Midland, Texas
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Jan 24, 2025
Event Starts7:30PM
Doors Open6:30 PM
Ticket Prices$49.50 – $101.50 (Platinum Seats Available)
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Clint Black: 35th Anniversary of

Her Melody: Celebrating Women in Music - Permian Basin String Quartet - Spring Recital
2025-01-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Rea-Greathouse Recital Hall, 1310 Farm to Market 1788, Midlan, TX, 79707, United States
Tickets and info are available on our website https://www.wtxs.org/concerts/pbsq-spring.html

West Texas Symphony Chamber Chorale Auditions
2025-01-28 19:00 - 21:30 | West Texas Symphony Hall, 3100 La Force Blvd, Midland, TX, 79706, United States
CHORALE AUDITIONS
Chorale Director, Dr. Brad Light, is excited to grow and expand the membership in the West Texas Symphony Chamber Chorale. Membership is open to singers high school age and older. Auditions will take place in person by appointment.
When & Where
Tuesday, January 28
7:00 – 9:30PM
West Texas Symphony Hall
3100 LaForce Blvd, Midland TX (near the airport)
Overview
Each audition will last about 10 minutes and consist of:
2.) SOLO – Bring a prepared solo. This can be any art song, folk song, or aria in any language.
3.) MUSIC READING – You will be asked to do a short exercise to demonstrate your comfort with music reading.
4.) VOCALIZE – You will be asked you to sing a few simple exercises in order to know your voice better.
Placements will be announced by email, the following week.
Rehearsals
Tuesdays from 7pm – 9pm, beginning February 4, 2025.
West Texas Symphony Hall
Questions?
Please email the Chorale Director at chorale@wtxs.org.
