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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&#160;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&#160; 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>