free airport concert

Latin music concert at San Diego Int’l Airport

If you’re anywhere near San Diego International Airport on Wednesday, December 15th between 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. head over the baggage claim area in Terminal 2 west.

If you do, you’ll be treated to a Latin music concert featuring Manny Cepeda’s Ritmo Caribe.

The concert is part of the airport’s free performing arts program and will help welcome the  dancers, judges and spectators coming to town for the First Annual World Latin Dance Cup, December 14-18.

To find out about other free performances scheduled at San Diego International Airport, visit the SAN website.


Free classical concert at Orlando Airport; free terminal tour at San Jose Airport


As part of its Liberty Weekend festivities, the Orlando International Airport (MCO) will present a free concert by the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra. The concert will take place at 8 pm, on Saturday June 26, 2010 in the atrium of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, which doubles as the public lobby area for gates 60 to 129.  All attendees will get three hours of complimentary airport parking.

Saturday June 26th and Sunday June 27th, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. each day, unticketed visitors are invited into Silicon Valley’s Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) for a sneak peek at the new high-tech Terminal B.  The new building includes seating areas with built-in power ports and public art that includes German multi-media artist’s Bjoern Schuelke’s Space Observer, an interactive, two-story tall robot-like structure with three legs and propeller-equipped arms.

San Jose Airport public art "Space Observer"

(Watch a Space Observer movie.)

Registered visitors will be able to walk through the terminal, see the art, buy a souvenir and enter drawings for prizes that will include airline tickets and travel packages.

If you plan on visiting the terminal, you’ll need to register in advance on the SJC website by Wednesday, June 23rd and pick the day and time you want to stop by.

In the meantime, here’s a link to a great photo slide show of the San Jose Airport through the years from The Mercury News.