Oscar De La Rosa and La Mafia performed at the official preview party for the new “Discovery Green” park in downtown Houston. It’s still under construction, but last Saturday night they had a party with concert to celebrate. It’ll be finished RSN I’m told, and based on what’s done now it’s going to be a very nice place.
There are several large lawns, fountains, restaurant$, a small lake, lots of green space and public art pieces, a permanent stage with a sloped lawn making something like an amphitheatre, a playground for kids. It’ll be a great place for the folks who live downtown or close, a good place to go for lunch if you’re stuck downtown, and a nice venue for events. It’s also convenient to both the convention center hotel and the GRB convention center.
And it TRULY beats hell out of the prior function of the space, which was Convention Center Parking.
There are several very nice spots in there which will make nice photo backdrops for portraits of one kind or another, so I give it two weeks, tops, before they have to put up “no commercial photography” signs – unless that’s actually in the city ordinances anyway and the signs are implied. (It may be so; I don’t do the kind of work covered by those rules so I’ve never run across them.)
But it’s a nice place and the music was great. Several HSPVA alumni including Sebastian Whitaker and Chris Ruiz, plus La Mafia and Al Jarreau. I’ve had worse assignments.
It’s nippy out tonight, but tomorrow should be gorgeous. Go shoot.