Wisteria Music Festival

The 150-year-old wisteria vine at Kidspace Children’s Museum in Pasadena’s Brookside Park, near the Rose Bowl, will form the backdrop for the first Wisteria Music Festival, a day-long celebration of music, sound, and hearing for children and adults from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Sat., March 25. Organizers hope to make it an annual event.

Featuring performers, who have generously donated their time, with diverse backgrounds in music, the Wisteria Music Festival will offer an interactive experience of music across many of its forms, genres, and sounds. Instruments from traditional Native American flute to steel drum will be showcased in stage performances beginning at 11:30 a.m. Performances will include Grammy-nominated rocker mom Meredith Brooks in a debut performance from her soon-to-be-released children’s album, “If I Could Be … ,” interactive percussion by Rhythm Child, 12-year-old Native American flute prodigy Evren Ozan, a trip across musical styles and eras in a “Musical Time Machine” led by guitarists Ian Hattwick and Paula McMath, island sounds with The CSUN Steel Band featuring “Gee” and Tropical Breeze, a Pasadena Suzuki Music Program concert of youth performers, and American folk music sing-alongs with Gigi and Mike. Children will also have the opportunity to be wowed by Professor Wes Wesley’s theremin, the only musical instrument played by not touching it. At the close of the day, all are invited to join the band of merry music makers to parade through Kidspace’s Outdoor Learning Environments with an instrument they have made from materials found in nature.

“As a child, my whole awareness of the world was created by music, which has the potential to be a celebration of imagination where children can make their own connections, and invent their own interpretations,” said Morgan Taylor, a Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter and illustrator who has donated his time to perform his Gustafer Yellowgold’s Wide Wild World program at the Wisteria Music Festival.

Visit www.kidspacemuseum.org for a complete schedule and details.

Please note that the Festival will be canceled in the event of rain.

Kidspace Children’s Museum is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tickets are $8 for children and adults (infants under 1 and members are free). Kidspace is at 480 N. Arroyo Blvd., Brookside Park, Pasadena, just opposite the Rose Bowl. Free parking is available in Rose Bowl Parking Lot I.”Multi-platinum Grammy-nominated rocker mom Meredith Brooks will debut songs from her upcoming children’s album “If I Could Be...” between 1-2 p.m., Saturday, March 25 at Kidspace.