This year, show your mom how much you appreciate her without resorting to the flowers-and-candy cliché: treat her to “A Mother’s Day Bouquet,” when the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra reprises its annual concert favorite Saturday at the Vero Beach High School Performing Arts Center. Aaron Collins directs the Space Coast Symphony in a performance of pop and classical favorites, including works by John Phillip Sousa, Richard Rodgers, George Gershwin and others. The evening will feature 18-year-old clarinetist Alyssa Barry, the 2016 winner of the Brevard’s Got Music talent competition. She will perform a movement from Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto in A major. Admission is free for those 18 and under or with a student ID, and $25 at the door for others. The concert begins at 7 p.m.
For almost three decades, the May Pops Concert has heralded the end of another social season in Vero while raising funds to benefit the Indian River Medical Center Foundation. Sunday on the verdant polo field at Windsor, the May Pops Season Finale will feature the wonderful Brevard Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Christopher Confessore, as well as Broadway stars Rachel York and Ryan Silverman, filling the air with award-winning and classic Broadway melodies. General admission at the gate is $30. Gates open at 3:30 p.m. The concert begins at 5:30 p.m.
At the final First Friday Gallery Stroll of the season in the downtown art district, Main Street Vero Beach Studios and Gallery will feature Shannon P. Wiley, the art teacher at Oslo Middle School. Born in Hialeah, Wiley is an artist and graphic designer. His work – paintings, etchings, sculpture and large-scale murals – includes projects for Disney, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Radisson Resorts and TGI Friday’s. Wiley’s current exhibit focuses on marine life in particular. The gallery stroll goes from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
If you’re in the mood for a nice helping of classic country on your musical menu this weekend, you’ll want to catch the May Night Sounds Concert this Saturday at the Sebastian Inlet State Park Coconut Point pavilions. The seven-piece Ring of Fire Band will be playing family-oriented classic country, a little bluegrass and a smidgen of rock ’n’ roll. The concert is free with regular park entry fees.
