The Pops Orchestra has more for you in the 2024-25 Season.
The Pops Orchestra is one of the most popular community ensembles in Bradenton and Sarasota counties. We aren’t just saying this, but by the week before a concert, we have only a handful of tickets available, so please don’t delay!
Or call the box office at 941-926-7677.
Kenny and Dolly! Need we say more? This Valentine’s Day show of the season is not to be miss! Join the Pops Orchestra and Marty Edwards as “Kenny Rogers” and Wendy Engler as “Dolly Parton” as we perform all their beloved hits including “Jolene,” “I Will Always Love You,” “9 to 5,” “The Gambler,” “Lady,” ”Lucille,” We’ve Got Tonight, “Islands in the Stream,” and many more!
We are nearly sold out and adding a THIRD SHOW, a Saturday matinee!
Clearly, this is the most popular show of the season and we want to share it with everybody.
Saturday, February 15 at 3:00 pm
SCF Neel Performing Arts Center, Bradenton
Sunday, February 16 at 3 pm
Riverview Performing Arts Center, Sarasota
Monday, February 17 at 7:30 pm
SCF Neel Performing Arts Center, Bradenton
In this Grand Finale show, The Pops Orchestra will feature amazing performers from right here on our Cultural Coast, including Joseph Holt on piano, Jon Godfrey on banjo, singer Frank Paul, dancers from the Sarasota Bay Dance Club, the concerto competition winner from the Sarasota Music Conservatory, performers from the Circus Arts Conservatory, and more! Let’s celebrate our local talent together during this dynamic and diverse presentation.
Sunday, March 23 at 3 pm
Riverview Performing Arts Center, Sarasota
Monday, March 24 at 7:30 pm
SCF Neel Performing Arts Center, Bradenton
Sunday Performances
3:00 PM
Riverview Performing Arts Center
1 Ram Way, Sarasota, 34231
Monday Performances
7:30 PM
SCF Neel Performing Arts Center
5840 26th St W, Bradenton, FL 34207
The Pops!
“Music You Love,
Musicians You Know.”
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“Wonderful performance filled with joy and
great fun for the soul and spirit.”
The Pops Orchestra serves the greater Bradenton/Sarasota region.
As one of the top performing arts groups in a unique, culturally rich community, The Pops Orchestra attracts full-time residents, Suncoast “Snowbirds,” and vacationers to its concerts, proving to be a cultural and economic asset to the Greater Sarasota community. Led by conductor Robyn Bell, The Pops presents high quality musical entertainment at affordable prices.
Our annual series of acclaimed Pops concerts are performed at Riverview Performing Arts Center in Sarasota and SCF Neel Performing Arts Center in Bradenton.
Our mission extends naturally to unique educational offerings for music students in our community.
“The high level of this orchestra is amazing.
We love every concert.”
OUR MUSICIANS
Who plays in The Pops Orchestra?
They are teachers, parents, neighbors, students. They have jobs. They have children. They have homes and schedules and commitments. They teach at local colleges, high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. They work in business, the arts and health care. Some are retired. Some are military veterans. They live in Sarasota, Bradenton, Venice, Anna Maria Island, Punta Gorda, Nokomis, Sun City Center, St. Petersburg, and Holmes Beach among others. Some of them are snowbirds. And they are all musicians with The Pops Orchestra. This season we have more than 65 musicians who bring their skill, passion and talent to the stage. The Pops is proud to be a community-wide orchestra with musicians who live and work in our midst.
Thanks to Our Corporate Sponsors!
Thanks to Our Community Sponsors and Partners!
