Lunchtime on a workday. You’ve got a sandwich you made the night before, maybe also a piece of fruit or bag of chips. You might’ve gone a little crazy and thrown in a mini cupcake. You have two options: sit with your meal in the break room and stream Netflix on your phone, or sit with your meal at the Tulsa Performing Arts Center, 110 E. Second St., and enjoy a free, 40-minute concert.
Such is the experience offered by the PAC’s Brown Bag It concert series. A staple since the 1990s, Brown Bag It concerts are open to the public, entirely free, informal and friendly to lunch eaters.
“The series allows us to open our doors and to create and deepen relationships with both the audience and music artists that may otherwise not attend or perform in our facility,” says Terri McGilbra, the PAC’s director of programming.
After a brief pandemic hiatus, Brown Bag It returns to the PAC on Oct. 5 with a performance from Monica Taylor and Travis Fite, who will play songs from “Anvdvnelisgi,” the Cherokee-language album recently released by Horton Records.
The next concerts in the series are Dec. 7 with the Festival Bell Ringers (“an annual holiday favorite,” McGilbra says); followed by March 1 and JazzThis! with duo Carl and Elizabeth Curtis playing beloved jazz standards; then May 3 with a celebration of musical theater legends Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II by a multifarious team of performers.
Visit tulsapac.com/brown-bag-it for times and more information.
