Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts

The Brownsville Society for the Performing Arts (BSPA), founded in 1995, is a private, non-profit, tax-exempt producer of world-class cultural entertainment that creates strategic alliances with civic, cultural, and educational organizations and institutions. Please help us celebrate our 30th anniversary in 2025! We are committed to improving the quality-of-life in our community through the Performing Arts."

The BSPA mission for our community is focused on these areas: superior arts and culture, civic partnerships for economic strength, education, and City development. Building partnerships to enhance the quality of life and prosperity (through local economic and tourism growth) for our city through the arts is always our goal. BSPA’s projects hire dozens of local participants (professional and non-professional) aiding the local economy through specific premium events attracting others to our city. We aid local businesses and provide significant quality-of-life enticement for those who might relocate here and to our largely underserved community.

We need your treasure so we can rebuild a musical community in Brownsville. Please help us by donating and sharing this link so we can add a new concert to our community. On February 22, 2025, we will be introducing a presence in lights concert at a very low cost to our community. Please donate, chare and join us at the concert!

During the last 30 years, the BSPA has produced literally hundreds of shows, concerts and cultural programs. We hope that most have been relevant, inclusive, educational and, of course, entertaining.

Of special interest to the BSPA are performing arts that are mostly inaccessible to a large portion of our community. To the best of our ability, we generate performance opportunities, organize competitions, endow scholarships, provide financial assistance, hold master classes and clinics and support similar activities with a clear educational value. BSPA helps those that pursue a career in music and dance education or other work in the performing arts field. Like everything we do, we are mostly limited by our resources.

our main events this season will start with the Brownsville Latin Jazz festival on October 19, 2024. We will have approximately 35 vendors covering specialty crafts, artists, food, beverages and student performers from the community. We will also have featured professional bands and for our main show Grammy winner Tomasito & Band.

We will also have our Brownsville Guitar Festival on March 28-30, 2025.

In December 2024 we will have our Christmas Concert (15 iterations as BSPA productions or co-productions) This is the most frequent non-festival event produced by the BSPA. This is a Christmas concert (usually featuring Handel’s Messiah), that pools hundreds of musicians from BISD, UTRGV, and professionals from across the region for a free concert which enjoys a decades-long history in Brownsville.

On March 28, 2025, we will have our Guitar Ensemble Competition, Matt Palmer clinic & featured concert. On March 29, 2025 we will have Guitar Ensemble Competition, Jeronimo Maya clinic & a featured concert. On

March 30 we will have Bokyung Byun & Jay Kacherski clinic & featured concert.

To sustain this effort for over two decades, BSPA has developed enduring alliances with individuals, entities, and institutions that also seek to expand the quantity, quality, and diversity of cultural offerings in our community. Our most important partners are the City of Brownsville and the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV) School of Music.

In July 2017 the reach of our mission was expanded considerably. The FCC granted the BSPA a License to operate a Low Power FM radio station (LPFM) in Brownsville and transmit a high-quality analog signal 24/7 on KXIQ-LP 105.1 FM. We hope you'll visit our KXIQ page on this site to learn more about it. More importantly, just dial 105.1 FM on your radio dial and enjoy the music.

We're proud to be of service to the community. The question we are most often asked is: "How can I help?" Our usual reply is, come to the show! Truth is, we need much more and if you can contribute in a more significant manner, please go to the contact us page. To learn more about the BSPA and its mission, watch our video that summarized our endeavors and please donate!

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